Product Designer (UX/UI)- 3-6 Month Contract in London

About 1st Formations
At 1st Formations, we empower entrepreneurs to start, run, and grow their businesses with confidence. Running a business shouldn’t be slowed down by company formation, statutory compliance, accounting, or payroll. From day one, these essentials should be seamless, reliable, and intelligently handled — freeing founders to focus on building and scaling.

We’re a leading UK provider of company formation and compliance services, building a modern, fully integrated technology platform that supports founders at every stage of their journey. Our platform brings together formation, compliance, accounting, payroll, and ongoing business support in one cohesive experience.

Why Join Us Now?
You’ll be joining a business with strong momentum, clear direction, and real opportunity for progression.

• £18m annual revenue, including £9m AR
• Over 1 million companies formed
• Certified B Corp and Carbon Neutral Business
• Forecast to grow 5x–10x over the next three years

The Role
We’re looking for a collaborative and detail‑oriented Product Designer who’s passionate about crafting intuitive, user‑centered experiences. You’ll play a key role in designing innovative products that balance user needs with business goals, contributing to the evolution of our design system and ensuring consistency across our product suite.

As a thoughtful problem solver, you’ll work independently and cross‑functionally—partnering with product managers, engineers, marketing, and compliance—to translate requirements into elegant design solutions. You’ll use data, user insights, and testing to inform your work while proactively QA’ing builds and iterating based on feedback. This is a hands‑on role in a fast‑paced environment where strong communication, ownership, and a deep empathy for users are essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to and maintain the design system for consistency across the product suite.
• Iterate on designs based on feedback, analytics, and user insights.
• Maintain consistency in branding, UI components, flows, accessibility, usability.
• Able to work with product to translate requirements into clear, user‑friendly design solutions.
• Create prototypes and high‑fidelity designs using Figma.
• Independently QA production builds and share results with developers.
• Critique design decisions and share feedback with other designers.
• Ensure that UX is embedded in end‑to‑end experience, validate prototypes, ensure usability and coherence.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, engineers, marketing, compliance to ensure design feasibility, performance, and alignment with business goals.
• Run user research, usability testing, and feedback loops (qualitative and quantitative).
• Ensure UX metrics (drop‑off, conversion, satisfaction) are tracked, improved, and tied to product goals.

What We Are Looking For

• Extensive UX & UI experience.
• Competent user of Figma, able to demonstrate developer‑ready files in a portfolio view.
• Strong portfolio across web, mobile, SaaS/enterprise, and platform‑level design.
• Experience building or maintaining design systems.
• Must have worked within a startup or scale‑up environment and be comfortable with changing requirements and a fast pace.
• Must have experience working with MCP servers.
• Excellent cross‑functional communication, ability to influence engineering, product, marketing.
• Familiarity with compliance / regulatory / security constraints in product design.
• Strong analytical mindset, comfortable with A/B, metrics, funnel flows, user research.

What We Offer
£80‑90k and comprehensive benefits package. Hybrid working model (London‑based roles) or office‑based. Real opportunities for progression as the business scales. The chance to influence both customer experience and product development. A culture that values ownership, impact, and continuous learning.

Equal Opportunities
1st Formations is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, criminal history, disability, or gender identity. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.