UX/UI Designer

A leading global research platform is modernising its user experience across millions of articles and book pages, and they're looking for a highly skilled UI/Visual Designer to help shape the next generation of their reading and discovery interfaces.

You'll join a specialist UX team responsible for elevating accessibility, consistency, and performance across a vast, content-rich product used by tens of millions of people every month. Working closely with Product, Engineering, and UX partners, you'll translate strategy into polished, production-ready UI that supports a mission centred on advancing knowledge and improving outcomes in science and healthcare.

What you'll be doing

• Leading visual and UI design execution using Figma, with a strong focus on component libraries, variants/tokens, auto-layout and high-quality developer handoff.
• Applying and contributing to a large-scale design system, including new typography and Graphene-based components.
• Partnering with developers to QA implementation and ensure WCAG-compliant accessibility standards are met.
• Producing clear documentation, design decisions and artefacts that support iterative releases.
• Enhancing the platform's visual consistency, readability and long-form content experience across responsive breakpoints., * Timely delivery of pages and components migrated into the design system.
• High-quality implementation that passes design QA and meets WCAG standards.
• Consistent visual and typographic execution across all breakpoints.
• Clear communication, documentation and positive collaboration feedback.
• Tangible improvements to UI consistency, brand alignment and accessibility.

Interview process

• 30-minute phone screening with the hiring manager
• 60-90 minute portfolio review with a panel of colleagues

If you're passionate about elevating complex, content-rich experiences and want to contribute to a platform with global impact, this contract offers the chance to make a meaningful mark.

• 4-6 years' experience in UX/UI design for content-heavy digital products.
• A proven ability to deliver accessible, system-based UI at scale in close collaboration with engineering teams.
• Expert-level Figma skills, especially for design-to-delivery workflows.
• Strong experience with design systems, component alignment and cross-product collaboration.
• Exceptional typography craft, particularly for long-form reading environments.