Senior UX Designer - Fixed Term Contract

Senior UX Designer - Fixed Term Contract

Full-Time 50000 - 65000 £ / year (est.) No working from home possible
hedgehog lab

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead end-to-end product design for impactful financial services projects.
  • Company: Join hedgehog lab, a digital consultancy making a difference in fintech and healthtech.
  • Benefits: Enjoy 28 days holiday, flexible working, and a wellbeing budget.
  • Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Why this job: Shape meaningful products that create social value and measurable impact.
  • Qualifications: 5+ years in digital design with financial services experience and Figma expertise.

The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.

  • Senior UX Designer
  • Full-time, Fixed Term Contract (4-6 months)
  • UK-based, with flexible home, office or hybrid working
  • HQ: Newcastle. Hubs: Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and London

About The Role

We're hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy building products that do good and get results.

Our design team works heavily in financial services, particularly fintech and wealth, alongside healthtech and insurtech.

This role needs someone who has designed for financial services before.

You'll be working on regulated products where trust, clarity and compliance shape every decision, so we need that experience from day one.

  • What's In It For You
  • Real autonomy and a strong design voice. You'll shape journeys, interfaces and outcomes, not just tickets.
  • Meaningful work on a portfolio of products with social value and measurable impact.
  • Modern craft. Contemporary tooling, rapid testing and iteration are baked in.

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end product design on web-first projects: flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI and polished prototypes.
  • Prototype fast in Figma and validate with users and stakeholders before build.
  • Create and evolve design systems, from setup through documentation and governance.
  • Facilitate workshops, stakeholder interviews, usability tests and C‑suite playbacks.
  • Partner closely with product, engineering and research to ship outcomes.

What we're looking for

  • Financial services experience is essential.

Significant, recent design work in fintech, wealth, banking or insurance, with a working understanding of designing in regulated environments.

  • 5+ years in digital product design, web-first. Native app is a nice-to-have.
  • Figma expert: 3+ years hands-on, including advanced prototyping and components/variants.
  • Design systems: a proven record creating and maintaining scalable systems.
  • Facilitation: confident running workshops, interviews, testing and senior stakeholder sessions.
  • Portfolio: end-to-end process, system-level thinking and real-world impact, ideally with FS work you can talk through.

Benefits

  • 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • 5 Impact Days per year for L&D, volunteering or innovation
  • Flexible working environment
  • Enhanced parental policy
  • Financial wellbeing services
  • Annual wellbeing budget plus two wellbeing days
  • Mental health support
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Company-supplied Apple Mac

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

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We think you need these skills to ace Senior UX Designer - Fixed Term Contract

Financial Services Experience
End-to-End Product Design
Web-First Design
Figma Expertise
Advanced Prototyping
Design Systems Creation and Maintenance
Facilitation Skills