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The work they do is genuinely complex - huge libraries of project content, mountains of data, fiddly technical detail - and most of the tools in their world are clunky and joyless. Ours aren't: our whole reason for existing is to take that complexity and make it feel clean, fast, and a pleasure to use.\nThat's the design challenge, and it's a great one. We're looking for a product designer who lives and breathes UI - someone who turns dense, complicated workflows into interfaces that feel clean, obvious, and quietly delightful. This isn't about making pretty pictures; it's about understanding how people actually work, shaping the right solution, and documenting it with real care. You don't need to know a thing about architecture or engineering to start - we'll bring you up to speed on what matters; what counts is that you're brilliant at making complex software feel simple.\nAnd here's the best part: we already have a great designer (no joke). So you won't be a lone designer holding everything together - you'd be joining to help us grow the design team, raise the bar together, and shape how design works at Kinship as we scale. If you're properly fluent in Figma - the kind of person who treats a well-built component library and a clean handoff as a craft in itself - you'll feel right at home.\nIn this role, you will:\nOwn the design of features end to end - from the problem and the flows through to pixel-perfect, developer-ready UI.\n\nTurn complex, data-heavy workflows into interfaces that feel simple, fast, and genuinely helpful.\n\nBuild and evolve our design system in Figma - components, variants, tokens, and patterns that keep the product consistent as it grows.\n\nDocument your work properly - states, edge cases, and interactions all spelled out - so building it is the easy part.\n\nPrototype interactions to pressure-test motion and behaviour before anyone writes code.\n\nWork hand in hand with our engineers, and help grow and shape the design team as we scale.\n\nWhat we're looking for\nYou don't need to tick every box, but here's what would help you succeed.\nMust-Haves\n5+ years designing software products - real applications with structured data and rich interactions - not just websites or marketing pages - with a portfolio that shows shipped work, systems thinking, and obsessive attention to detail.\n\nMastery of Figma as both a designand a documentation tool. Components, variants, auto-layout, variables/tokens, named states - and handoff that's clean, complete, and easy to build from. (If your home is Sketch instead, that's welcome too - it's the next best thing.)\n\nFigma files you can walk us through. We care as much about how you document and hand off as we do about the final screens - so expect to show us the inside of a file, not just the pretty frames.\n\nA deep eye for the details that make an interface just work: typography, spacing, hierarchy, and the unglamorous states - empty, loading, error, edge cases.\n\nExperience collaborating closely with engineers in a product team - clear communication, thoughtful handoff, and the patience to iterate until it's right.\n\nNice-to-Haves (these won't gate you)\nComfort with Framer (or similar) for higher-fidelity interaction prototypes - to show how something should move, not to hand off.\n\nComfort reading and tweaking HTML & CSS - enough to understand how your designs become real interfaces, and to nudge things in the browser when it helps. You absolutely don't need to be a coder, and we won't screen anyone out for not being one. But if you're a designer who genuinely loves dipping into code, you'll have a brilliant time here.\n\nExperience building or owning a design system.\n\nHow we think about design and handoff\nA mockup that looks right isn't a finished design. For us, a design is done when an engineer can build it without guessing - every state, every breakpoint, every edge case accounted for.\nThat's why Figma is home base: it's the best tool we know for documenting design, and we lean on it properly - components, variants, auto-layout, variables, named states. (Sketch is the next best thing, if that's your world.) Tools like Framer are brilliant for what they're brilliant at - pressure-testing an interaction or showing how something should move - but a prototype is for exploring, not for handing off to the dev team.\nWe're looking for someone who treats documentation as part of the craft, not a chore tacked on at the end. Get that right and everything downstream - build quality, speed, the feel of the final product - gets better.\nYou’re probably someone who:\nIs happiest turning messy complexity into something that feels obvious.\n\nSweats the details - states, spacing, edge cases - because you know they are the product.\n\nLikes being in the room where product decisions get made.\n\nEnjoys shipping quickly and often, in person, with a small, motivated team.\n\nValues clarity and simplicity over flashy gimmicks.\n\nTakes real pride in the craft, and in handing work over the way you'd want it handed to you.\n\nWhat We Offer\nCompetitive salary.\n\nA beautiful, plant-filled office in central London (by Southwark tube station) and good coffee (obviously).\n\nOffice-first, with trust-based flexibility.\n\nA company that believes in work-life balance - we work hard, but go home on time.\n\nA no-BS team of people who love building great software together - with real autonomy and influence over the product and our culture.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5663,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["CAD, PLM & BIM Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T21:59:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":6,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.22,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":507,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-02T06:13:15Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kinship-design-engineer-uiux","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kinship-design-engineer-uiux.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-02T14:10:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":19463,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-03T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":679207},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=679207"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkinship-design-engineer-uiux"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkinship-design-engineer-uiux"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkinship-design-engineer-uiux"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kinship-design-engineer-uiux\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkinship-design-engineer-uiux"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":772874}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"kinship.io","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":772874},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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