UX/UI Designer
Job description
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Salary: Up to £45,000
Location: Hybrid - Newcastle-under-Lyme (1-2 days per month) or if local 2 days in the office
Type: Full-time
This is an opportunity to join a well-established, premium consumer brand at an exciting stage of growth.
The business is investing in its digital and ecommerce capability, with a focus on improving customer experience, driving conversion and delivering a more refined, user-focused online journey.
They are now looking for a UI/UX Designer to play a key role in shaping how customers interact with the brand across web and digital platforms.
You'll be responsible for the end-to-end user experience across ecommerce and digital touchpoints, working from research and discovery through to final UI execution.
This role is well suited to someone who enjoys working across the full design lifecycle and combining UX thinking with clean, high-quality UI design.
- Design and optimise ecommerce user journeys, improving usability and conversion
- Create wireframes, user flows and high-fidelity prototypes for web and mobile
- Conduct user research, usability testing and analysis to inform design decisions
- Work closely with product, marketing and development teams to deliver effective solutions
- Drive CRO and continuous optimisation through data-led design improvements
- Build and maintain design systems and component libraries
- Ensure all output is consistent, accessible and aligned to brand standards
- Experience in a UI/UX or Digital Product Design role, ideally within ecommerce or retail
- Strong portfolio demonstrating user journeys, UX thinking and interface design
- Proficient in Figma and Adobe tools, with experience building design systems
- Strong understanding of user behaviour, CRO and performance-driven design
- Comfortable working in cross-functional, fast-paced environments
- Detail-oriented, with a focus on delivering clean, considered digital experiences
- Experience with Shopify or ecommerce platforms
- Understanding of accessibility (WCAG)
- Experience with A/B testing and analytics tools
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🎨 Showcase your ecommerce portfolio prominently as this role specifically focuses on retail and consumer brand digital experiences
📊 Quantify your CRO impact: 'Redesigned checkout flow, increasing conversion by 23%'
🔧 Highlight Figma and Adobe proficiency early as these are the primary design tools mentioned
🛍️ Emphasise any Shopify experience as it's specifically mentioned as a nice-to-have skill
🧪 Include A/B testing examples to demonstrate your data-driven design approach
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- •Redesigned ecommerce checkout flow using Figma prototypes, increasing conversion rate by 28% and reducing cart abandonment across 3 product categories
- •Built comprehensive design system with 45+ reusable components, reducing design-to-development handoff time by 40% for cross-functional teams
- •Conducted user research and A/B testing for mobile commerce experience, driving £180k additional revenue through improved product discovery flows
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Your UX/UI Designer role at Gleeson Recruitment Group's premium consumer brand client immediately caught my attention, particularly the focus on ecommerce conversion optimisation and design systems development. My experience in Figma-based design workflows and CRO-driven user journey mapping aligns perfectly with your digital growth objectives.
My background in ecommerce design has equipped me with the skills to balance user needs with conversion goals, having worked extensively with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven design solutions that improve both usability and business performance.
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Interview questions
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Technical
- ›Walk me through your process for designing an ecommerce checkout flow
- ›How do you approach building and maintaining design systems in Figma?
- ›Describe your experience with conversion rate optimisation and A/B testing
- ›How do you ensure your designs meet WCAG accessibility standards?
- ›What's your approach to conducting user research for ecommerce platforms?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you had to balance user needs with business conversion goals
- ›Describe a situation where you had to work with cross-functional teams on a tight deadline
- ›Give an example of how you've used data to inform design decisions
- ›Tell me about a design project that didn't go as planned and how you handled it
- ›Describe a time when you had to advocate for a design decision to stakeholders
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Tell me about a time you had to balance user needs with business conversion goals
Describe a situation where you had to work with cross-functional teams on a tight deadline