Senior Product Designer

We’re hiring on behalf of a major UK banking group for a 12-month FTC with genuine potential to extend or convert to a permanent role. This role sits within a small, tight-knit design practice working dotted-line into a wider Human-Centred Design team, at a moment where the workstream is genuinely ambiguous and there’s real ownership on the table for the right person.

The role

You’ll operate as a sole designer within your workstream, working directly with product owners, engineers and subject matter experts rather than alongside other designers day to day. Dedicated researchers exist, but only in a consulting capacity, so a defining part of this role is owning your own tactical UX research end to end: planning, running and synthesising user testing and desktop research yourself, then feeding findings straight into your design decisions.

This is a genuinely ambiguous, fast-moving environment. You’ll be picking up new projects independently and proactively bringing your workstream into the wider design team, rather than waiting to be told what’s next. Process matters here: the team wants to see your thinking from low-fidelity exploration through to shipped, high-fidelity UI, with case studies that clearly link your process to specific aims, metrics and artifacts, not just how things turned out.

What you’ll be doing Own end-to-end product design across mid-size and increasingly complex projects, from discovery through delivery

Plan, run and synthesise your own user research and usability testing, with no dedicated researcher on this stream

Partner directly with product owners, engineers and subject matter experts to translate ambiguous briefs into shippable, validated design decisions

Contribute to and evolve shared design standards and guidelines as your workstream scales

Coach and give feedback to colleagues, supporting the wider maturity of the design practice What we’re looking for Senior product designer with genuine end-to-end ownership, from discovery through UX exploration to UI delivery

Comfortable running your own research without a dedicated researcher: usability testing, moderated and unmoderated sessions, desktop research, and turning findings into design decisions independently

Experience defining and leading design work at pace within agile delivery, in ambiguous or fast-moving environments

A portfolio that shows real process, not just outcomes, with clear aims, metrics and artifacts tied to specific case studies

Experience in regulated, complex or financial services environments is a strong plus

Some experience coaching or mentoring colleagues *Rates depend on experience and client requirements