Senior Product Designer UX/UI in Leicester

Welcome to Hastings Direct. We’re a digital insurance provider with bold ambitions to become the best and biggest in the UK market. Over recent years, we’ve made huge investments in our digital capabilities, underpinned by our strong 4Cs culture, to ensure we continue to deliver market leading experiences for our customers. We provide insurance for over four million customers, every interaction with us is shaped by thoughtful design, data-led decision making and a deep understanding of customer needs.

Our Commercial, Digital and Marketing teams sit at the heart of this journey – combining entrepreneurial thinking, analytical insight and creativity to build market leading customer experience. From pricing and proposition design to intuitive digital journeys and compelling tone of voice, our teams are passionate about creating experiences that are not only effective, but genuinely enjoyable. As we continue to grow as an increasingly digitised business, our colleagues play a critical role in driving change, shaping the future and making a meaningful difference for our customers every day.

Job details:

• Lead end-to-end UX/UI design, from discovery and research through to prototyping, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product and technical teams to align user needs, business objectives, and technical requirements.
• Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and interactive prototypes that clearly communicate solutions.
• Conduct usability testing, customer research, and data-driven analysis to validate concepts and enhance user experiences.
• Simplify complex insurance processes and regulatory requirements into intuitive, user-centred journeys.
• Present and advocate design solutions to stakeholders using evidence-based insights, while integrating AI into design workflows.

Essential skills/experience:

• Experienced in designing digital products, ideally within consumer, fintech, or insurance sectors.
• Proficient in industry-standard design tools such as Figma, FigJam, and Make.
• Strong collaborator with experience working effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrates user-centred design expertise through a portfolio showcasing clear processes and successful outcomes.
• Solid understanding of UX principles, UI best practices, responsive design, and agile ways of working.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website.

Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Benefits:

• Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach.
• Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Physical wellbeing – Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (PMI).
• Financial wellbeing – providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%.
• Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, and support groups.
• 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more.

Join us and you’ll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you’ll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we’ll give you all the support, training and development you need.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.

At Hastings Direct, we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we encourage you to be open with us.