Lead UI Designer

Purpose of position:  

Are you passionate about elevating interface design and setting the visual direction of a product used by thousands globally?
We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer with a deep expertise in UI to help define and drive the visual and interaction quality across Awin’s product ecosystem.

You’ll be the guardian of interface excellence, setting the design direction and mentoring others to create pixel-perfect, accessible, and brand-elevating experiences. Working at the intersection of UX, product and engineering, you'll shape how our platform looks, feels, and performs - making it not only beautiful, but brilliantly usable.

Our team is a bunch of lovely, smart and dedicated humans. And we offer some great benefits too!

Key Tasks:

• Owning and elevating UI craft across the product, setting quality benchmarks for interface design and interaction patterns
• Defining visual and interaction design principles that align with our product strategy and brand
• Partnering with Product, UX and Engineering to shape features from discovery through to implementation, ensuring a consistent and delightful user experience
• Leading the creation of high-fidelity designs and prototypes that push the boundaries of usability and aesthetics
• Championing accessibility and inclusive design in every interface decision
• Driving the evolution of our design system, ensuring scalability, consistency, and adoption across teams
• Leading a team of Product Designers: providing line management, coaching, regular feedback, and clear development pathways
• Facilitating workshops and design reviews and critiques, confidently guiding discussions to strong, insight-led outcomes
• Helping define success metrics and validating design impact through user feedback and analytics
• Creating and delivering design presentations, emphasising rationale through storytelling to stakeholders

Skills and expertise:

• Strong experience as a Lead or Senior Product Designer, with a portfolio that demonstrates exceptional interface design across web platforms
• Deep knowledge of UI design principles, interaction design, layout, typography, and responsive design
• Excellent visual storytelling skills - able to communicate concepts clearly through design
• Experience working with and evolving complex design systems at scale
• Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams, with the ability to balance design quality, user needs and technical feasibility
• Proficiency in Figma and other modern design and prototyping tools
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and how to embed inclusive design into every solution
• Ability to mentor and inspire others, raising the bar for visual quality across the team
• Comfort working in agile environments and advocating for design in fast-paced delivery settings
• Bonus: experience in motion design, branding, or micro-interactions

Our Offer: 

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritize your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction on your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.  
• Flexi-Office: Do you prefer to work from our cool office, from home, or in a completely different environment? With us, the choice is yours. We offer the flexibility to work wherever you want within our Awin locations.    
• Welfare: We provide you with a life assurance, travel insurance and private health insurance that covers several types of health, vision, and dental treatments. Furthermore, you can take advantage of our Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loan. 
• Health & Well Being: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being.  
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development. You can also improve your English skills by participating in our local language course. 
• Remote Working: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.    
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program and show your appreciation for colleagues who have gone the extra mile to support you.  

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.  

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.  

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships is diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.  

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.