UX/UI Designer Hybrid. London

2 days a week in Paddington WeWork (2 Eastbourne Terrace, London W2 6LG) Monday / Wednesday / 3 days a week at home – flexible on Fridays to come in. Travel to client offices as required.

What is Solace?

Solace is a small (but powerful) full-service product agency, offering everything from Brand Design, Product Discovery, UX/UI Design and Full-Stack Development, as well as Marketing services. We were recently acquired by Digital Speed, a similar agency, known for their work in the automotive industry. Together, we offer global clients of all sizes a dependable and flexible partner, who can deliver high-quality work at any stage in a product’s lifecycle.

We are driven by 4 key values:

Open
We arrive with options, enjoy taking feedback, and define the best way to do things together.

Thriving
New challenges excite and energise us, we welcome opportunities to learn and improve individually and collectively.

Experts
Enthusiastic, dedicated specialists who are committed to their profession are brought together with support and structure to deliver results.

Caring
We take our client’s goals as seriously as our own. Combining deep expertise with teamwork and genuine care, we foster trust, respect, and shared success.

Where do you fit in?

You will be joining Solace after a period of change, and will be the first UX/UI Design hire based in London for some time. You will form the basis of our design team as we grow with Digital Speed, and will work closely alongside agency leadership to produce impressive brands, and product design.

Being part of our foundational team means taking a lot of responsibility. This is a role for someone who wants to be a generalist across Design rather than specialist in one element of it. As we grow, there will be opportunities to specialise, but as of today you will need to be able to work on more than one project at once, and thrive on the diversity of work that agency life provides.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the UI and UX design direction for digital products across our client’s web, mobile, SaaS products, and marketing platforms.
• Work directly with our clients to translate their product goals and complex requirements into intuitive, engaging user experiences.
• Work closely with your team to iterate on and improve designs through user research, testing, and analysis of usage data.
• Brand Design – Design brands from scratch or re-freshing existing brands. Suggesting logotypes, typography, colour palettes and creating brand guideline documents
• UX Design – Understand personas, ideate solutions to known pain-points, or how to complete a Job To Be Done, plot user journeys, and empathise with the end-user.
• UI Design – Create wireframes, user flows, interactive prototypes, and pixel-perfect high-fidelity UI designs within set timelines. Building, contributing to and maintaining design systems, pattern libraries, and style guides as required.
• Ensure designs are responsive, accessible, and optimised across devices and user contexts.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers, marketers, and data teams to implement solutions that balance user and business needs.
• Clearly and confidently present your work internally and to stakeholders, articulating design rationale and decisions, and openly welcoming critical feedback to get to the best result.
• Collaborate in agile, iterative environments as part of cross-functional teams.
• Establish and advocate for design best practices and scalable workflows.

Requirements

• Right to work in the UK
• 4+ years of experience in UX/UI design for digital products across web and mobile.
• Demonstrated experience designing SaaS platforms and customer-facing tools.
• Portfolio showcasing expertise across user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and final polished interfaces.
• Proficient in Figma and other design/prototyping tools such as Sketch and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Strong grasp of typography, visual hierarchy, layout, and color theory.
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards, inclusive design, and responsive design principles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; able to clearly explain design thinking to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Organized, detail-oriented, and some experience in Agile methodology projects / sprints / stand ups / roles / scrum etc.
• Self-motivated and proactive with a collaborative mindset.
• Passionate about design and committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity in your work.
• Prior work and familiarity with design trends with clients in industries such as finance, automotive, or technology is advantageous.
• Previous experience consulting, working as a freelancer or within an agency environment.
• Front-end development expertise (or at least an understanding of how coding works) so that your designs can be brought to life as they were intended to be

To apply for this role please email (emailprotected) with your CV and links to any portfolio websites or other appropriate references. Thank you.

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