Senior / Lead UX Designer

Instantly
Stockport, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Remote
Stockport, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Artificial Intelligence
Interaction Design
Software Prototyping
Mixpanel
Figma
GPT
Automation Anywhere

Job description

We are looking for a Senior / Lead UX Designer who thrives on solving "wicked problems." You will be responsible for the cognitive flow of our platform, ensuring that as we add powerful AI capabilities, the product remains intuitive and easy to master. Reporting directly to the Head of Design, you will be a strategic partner who operates with high autonomy. We expect you to be an early adopter of AI-augmented design workflows, using the latest tools to prototype, validate, and build experiences at a pace that matches our engineering velocity.

Key Collaborations Design Team: Maintaining and contributing to our Design System, creating scalable, production-ready assets, and ensuring consistency across product experiences.Product Team: Mapping complex AI workflows, from lead research to automated deal closing.Engineering: Partnering on technical feasibility and ensuring the logic of the user journey is maintained through development.Marketing/Sales: Gathering insights from customer feedback loops to identify friction points.

Requirements

UX Strategy & Architecture: 5-8+ years of experience. You excel at information architecture, journey mapping, and creating scalable workflows for complex SaaS.AI-First Prototyping: Expert-level proficiency in Figma combined with the latest AI prototyping tools, e.g. Lovable, Uizard, Framer AI, or Figma AI, to turn ideas into interactive, high-fidelity experiences rapidly.Generative Design Workflow: Experience using AI: GPT, Claude, or FigJam AI, for research synthesis, user persona generation, and content strategy to accelerate the discovery phase.AI Interaction Design: A deep understanding of how to design for AI specificities, handling model latency, designing "Human-in-the-loop" interfaces, and building user trust through transparency.Data-Driven Discovery: Proficient in usability testing and analyzing product analytics - Mixpanel, Hotjar, to validate design hypotheses.Nimble & Agile: You have a "startup brain." You know when to push for a perfect solution and

Benefits & conditions

when to deliver a "good enough" iteration to gather real-world data.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities Workflow Engineering: Designing the end-to-end UX for our AI Copilot and Sales Agents, ensuring complex automation feels like a "set and forget" experience.Rapid AI Prototyping: Using AI-powered design tools to build and test multiple versions of a feature in the time it used to take to build one.User Research & Synthesis: Leveraging AI to analyze user interviews and feedback, translating those insights into actionable design improvements.Wireframing & Logic: Building low-to-mid fidelity blueprints that solve for every edge case in the user journey.Design Systems-UX Focus: Collaborating with the Visual Lead to ensure our design system supports consistent UX patterns and accessibility standards.

Growth & Autonomy Define AI UX Standards: You will set the bar for how UX is practiced at Instantly, establishing the research and testing playbooks for the AI era.Path to Leadership: As a Lead hire, you will shape our design culture and help build the team as we scale.Direct Influence: You have the mandate to challenge existing flows and push for radical simplifications that drive user success.

Benefits & Perks Competitive Salary: A top-market package reflecting your impact and seniority.Fully Remote & Async-Friendly: Work from wherever you thrive. We value results over "green dots."The AI Stack: All the hardware and AI/UX software subscriptions: Figma, Framer, Maze, AI research tools, etc. you need.Flexible PTO: We trust our leads to manage their energy; take time off when you need it.Professional Development: Annual budget for advanced UX certification and AI design leadership training.

About the company

Instantly is the world's fastest-growing AI powered outreach platform, empowering over 45,000 businesses to scale their revenue. We aren't just a sending tool; we are building an AI-native sales ecosystem. We tackle massive complexity: managing thousands of accounts, sophisticated AI warm-up sequences, and automated reply agents, and condense it into a simple, high-performance interface. We are a product-led team that moves fast, iterates daily, and believes that UX is our greatest competitive advantage.

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