Senior UI Designer in Chalgrove

Chalgrove, United Kingdom | Posted on 27/07/2026

We're the marketing agency built exclusively for the automotive ecosystem. As we grow our capability, we're looking for a Senior UI Designer who can build scalable, well-structured interfaces and the ability to shape online campaign content.

You'll report to our Creative Director and own the digital creative output, setting the standard for how we design and build across every touchpoint, from component systems to campaign assets. Automotive manufacturers, suppliers and technology companies expect precision. This role delivers it.

Hybrid working, as part of a growing team with twenty years of sector depth behind it.

What you'll be doing

• Leading UI/UX and interface design across web and digital products, for large international clients and smaller ones alike
  
• Building scalable design systems with a true variables mindset: components, tokens, theming and structure that holds up at scale
  
• Handing off UI/UX work to our development team with precision, the way it was meant to be built
  
• Leading digital creative output across brand and campaign projects, and across all digital channels
  
• Working with our digital marketing team so creative performs as well as it looks
  
• Using AI and emerging tools as genuine creative accelerators, not novelties
  
• Presenting ideas with clarity and confidence to clients and stakeholders at every level
  
• Shaping how h2o approaches digital creative as we grow. Your influence will extend beyond your own output
  

Requirements

What we're looking for - Skills and experience

• Deep Figma proficiency: design systems, component libraries, variables for theming and clean dev handoff. This is core to the role, not a supporting skill
  
• At least five years' experience, ideally agency-side, with meaningful time in interface and product design, not just campaign or brand work
  
• A portfolio with real UI/UX depth. Systems built or led end to end, alongside range into brand and campaign work
  
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro
  
• Open to tools beyond the traditional suite. Canva, Affinity Designer, whatever gets the best result
  
• Actively using AI tools to push work further
  
• Comfortable with a component-based, token-driven approach. You understand how design decisions scale
  Confident with motion and video, able to concept and produce content that moves as well as it looks
  

Mindset and approach

• A systems thinker first. You understand how one design decision ripples across a whole product or brand
  
• Digital-first by instinct. You think in channels, formats and interactions, not just visuals
  
• Sharp enough to balance bold ideas with what actually works
  
• Genuinely curious about new tools, because you want to be, not because you have to be
  
• Easy to work with. You build strong relationships and take the time to understand a brief properly
  
• A confident communicator, as clear with words as you are with craft
  
• Committed to doing things properly, from concept through to completion
  

Show us your UI thinking first. How you structure a design system, handle component states and hand off to development. Then show us your range: campaign work, brand thinking, smart use of AI in your process. Case studies that walk through the structure of a Figma file, not just the finished screens, will stand out.

Nice to haves

• Large brand or enterprise projects with an international dimension
  
• Automotive sector experience, or a genuine interest in it
  
• Front-end basics. Enough to know how your decisions translate into code
  
• Experience building a design system from scratch, not just inheriting one
  
• Knowledge of digital accessibility standards in practice
  
• Experience prototyping and presenting concepts interactively
  
• Hybrid working, with flexibility on environment
  
• Room to grow and develop within the role
  
• Private medical insurance
  
• Pension plan for UK and Ireland based employees
  
• Training where required or requested
  
• A relaxed working environment
  
• Engaging projects, day to day
  
• Experience across well-known B2B and B2C brands
  
• Company MacBook Pro or equivalent
  
• Quarterly team events
  

Why h2o?

Twenty years of sector depth. The same senior team from first conversation to final delivery. A 9.8 client satisfaction rating and an eight-year average client relationship. B Corp certified, because how we work matters as much as what we produce.

You'll be joining a close-knit team with a track record of long-term client partnerships built on trust and results. The digital creative function is yours to own. As the team grows, so does your opportunity to shape it.

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