Freelance - UI Designer

Overview

Freelance Senior UI / Product Designer

4.5 DAY WORK WEEK – HALF DAY ON FRIDAYS

We are seeking a freelance Senior UI / Product Designer to support a major web platform project during a critical design phase.

The role will work closely with the project team to help translate UX direction, requirements and strategic thinking into high-fidelity design and component library.

We are looking for someone who can quickly become productive, work independently and help accelerate delivery with minimal oversight.

This is a hands-on delivery role rather than a design leadership or consultancy position.

What We’re Looking For
We need an experienced designer who can: 

• Take ownership of design tasks and drive them forward independently
• Produce high-quality UI design at pace
• Build scalable design systems and component libraries in Figma
• Translate requirements and UX direction into intuitive user experiences
• Collaborate effectively with developers and project stakeholders
• Make sound design decisions without requiring extensive direction
• Identify problems, propose solutions and keep momentum moving
• Above all, we are looking for someone who gets things done with minimal oversight.

Ideal Profile

• Strong UI and product design background
• Expert-level Figma capability
• Experience building and maintaining design systems
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping shape solutions
• Commercially minded and pragmatic
• Confident working as part of a multidisciplinary project team
• Self-starter with excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience working on complex digital products, platforms or web applications would be beneficial

What We Don’t Need

• This is not a Digital Design Director, UX Consultant or Design Strategy role.
• We are not looking for someone who primarily advises, facilitates workshops or creates high-level recommendations.
• We need a designer who is comfortable being on the tools and delivering work themselves.

Portfolio/chats with cadidate

“It would be good in conversations to hear about people’s independent thinking and strong execution, not simply polished visual work”

Candidates should be able to demonstrate:

• Ownership of design decisions and the rationale behind them
• Examples of solving complex design or usability challenges
• Evidence of building and scaling design systems
• Examples of working closely with developers to bring designs to life
• Ability to simplify complexity and create clear user experiences
• Situations where they proactively identified issues and proposed solutions
• Tangible impact of their work on product, user or business outcomes
• During portfolio discussions, we will place particular emphasis on how candidates think, make decisions and operate independently, rather than simply reviewing finished screens.

Success Measures
The successful candidate will:

• Require minimal day-to-day management
• Increase design delivery capacity immediately
• Allow senior team members to focus on strategic and stakeholder activities
• Contribute thoughtful solutions rather than waiting for instruction
• Deliver high-quality design outputs quickly and reliably

We are looking for someone who combines strong design craft with initiative, commercial awareness and the ability to operate autonomously within a fast-moving project environment.