Senior UX Designer
Company: Red Badger
Role summary
Senior UX Designer is a role at Red Badger in Leeds, England, United Kingdom (on-site). Posted 2026-09-08. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Senior UX Designer
- Company
- Red Badger
- Location
- Leeds, England, United Kingdom
- Work arrangement
- on-site
- Category
- Product & Design
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-09-08
Red Badger is looking for a talented Senior UX Designer to join their team! This is a fantastic opportunity to shape user experiences for exciting projects, with potential for growth and development in a supportive environment. No degree is required, and they're offering a competitive salary.
Job description
Founded in 2010 by Stuart, Cain and David, we help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their users and customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements and new digital products and services (or make significant improvements to existing ones).
You are a people person. As a trusted consultant, you develop rapport with your clients from Day 1. You are a master facilitator who loves simplifying complexity at various levels of the organisation but also has the humility to learn what you don't know. You're proactive in championing user needs and creating opportunities for customer research early and often and you take your team along in the journey with you so that you're all building the right thing together. You expertly switch between your divergent and convergent hats. You use your craft to produce designs at various levels of fidelity to bring the vision to life and iterate fast and often. You are comfortable working closely with Product and Technology teams to build the thing right too.
The role
As a Senior User Experience Designer, you are an integral part of a client-facing cross-functional team working in Lean Agile ways of working. You are responsible for understanding the needs of clients and customers and designing ways to deliver value to them.
You are a people person, and as a trusted advisor, you develop rapport with your clients and your team. You are a master facilitator who loves simplifying complexity at various levels of the organisation and has the humility to learn what you don't know.
You're proactive in championing user needs and creating opportunities for customer research early and often. You take the team on the journey with you, so you're building the right thing
together. You expertly switch between your divergent and convergent hats and use your craft to produce designs at various levels of fidelity to bring the vision to life. You are comfortable
working closely with Product and Technology teams to build the thing right, iterating fast and often.
Key responsibilities
Discipline expertise:
Auditing existing user experience
Prototyping at various levels of fidelity - from paper to hi-fi click-throughs
Design the user experience from discovery through to delivery
Conducting user research and user testing early, often and throughout delivery
Designing and facilitating workshops and design sprints
Collaborative leader
Coaching your team and your clients on Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design
Working with Product Directors for sales activities
Consulting product stakeholders with backlog prioritisation
Client influencer
Communicate your designs and decisions with a broad range of stakeholders
Aligning a broad range of stakeholders on the product strategy and desired outcomes
Advocating and introducing user-centred processes to your clients
Become a trusted advisor to your clients by collaborating with them to deliver business and user value
Build Red Badger’s product capability
Support and mentor user experience designer and motivate them to develop
Proactively share knowledge with the rest of the team and elevate the UX and
Product discipline within Red Badger
Support the development of Red Badgers product approach and strategy
Write and speak publicly about our design work and practice your experience
It’d be great if you,
Have experience of working in lean/agile environments
Have in-depth knowledge of Human-Centred Design and Design Thinking
Advised engineers, insights and QA on UX practices as part of a cross-functional team
Worked with clients, presenting design concepts and running workshops
Can lead UX activities on a project
Have working knowledge of industry-standard tools, such as Sketch/Figma, plus aptitude to learn and introduce new tools and methodologies
Have experience designing mobile-first responsive sites & mobile native apps
Can plan and run user testing at various levels of fidelity - from guerilla user testing to lab testing
Are able to work closely as part of a cross-functional team as the sole UX Designer
Optionally, it’d be amazing if you also
Can leverage your understanding of front-end development to inform your design decisions
Apply product management principles to support the design and delivery of digital products
Apply Service Design methodologies surface insights, design and test experiences to inform the development of digital products
Influence Product Strategy to develop, build and test new business opportunities
Leverage emerging technologies to enhance the user experience
Values
People people
We respect and care for each other, giving us the space to feel safe and be our true selves
Find a way
We’re comfortable with uncertainty and accountability, whilst achieving great outcomes through shared goals
Always learning
We’re curious. It’s how we learn and grow as individuals, continuously testing and improving what we do, and how we do it
Open & Fair
We build trust by telling things as they are, being open, and seeking to achieve fair and equitable outcomes
Collaborative We are united by our desire to get to the best ideas. We are generous with our knowledge, actively listen to each other, and are open minded
Diversity & Inclusion:
Red Badger is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire, employ, train, promote and compensate regardless of gender, gender identity, race, disability, sexual orientation, age, creed and colour. We are fully focused on equality, and it is our fundamental belief that the fascinating characteristics that make us all different enable us to continue to do amazing work for our clien