QinetiQ

QinetiQ

Manchester, North West

User Experience Designer

Full-Time£43,000 - 83,000 per yeargisterenUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £43,000 - 83,000 per year

Requirements:
  • We are looking for someone who enjoys breaking down ambiguous user problems into concrete, validated design solutions and user stories, and takes pride in implementing a high-quality solution.
  • We are looking for someone who champions user needs and instigates collaboration with product, engineering, and stakeholders to enable successful, user-friendly delivery.
  • We are looking for someone who is comfortable challenging the status quo and looks for ways to improve processes, user-facing products, design systems, and team efficiency.
  • We want someone with growing expertise in a specific design discipline such as accessibility or interaction design, and who can support upskilling others.
  • We value experience using Figma to create dynamic wireframes and translate concepts into prototypes.
  • We look for someone who can evaluate and recommend multiple design options, taking into account performance, security, usability, and accessibility requirements.
Responsibilities:
  • We champion user-centred design and proactively apply multiple tools and methodologies to anticipate and tackle design blockers.
  • We act as a skill or knowledge expert in a specific design discipline for our team and the wider business, including upskilling others.
  • We lead discovery workshops with users to capture product feedback and support user research.
  • We create dynamic wireframes in Figma, reflecting UX design principles, and present them to customers to articulate our ideas.
  • We translate concepts into prototypes and improve designs from user feedback or evaluation.
  • We evaluate and recommend multiple design options, taking into account performance, security, usability, and accessibility requirements.
  • We take ownership of design tasks and actively enable the team through our growing expertise.
Technologies:
  • Figma
  • Support
  • Security
  • UX UI Design
  • AI
  • DevOps

More:

We are Naimuri, a tech company that has grown from a start-up into a community of 180 people, with most of our team based in Salford, Greater Manchester and a significant presence in Cheltenham and London. Our mission is to help make the UK a safer place to be, and we work in an Agile-first environment that values transparency, collaboration, continuous improvement, and a culture of enablement. The User Experience Designer role sits within our ACDC capability, alongside Business Analysts, Business Change Managers, User Researchers, and User Experience Designers, supporting delivery projects by understanding user challenges and designing, testing, and refining user experiences. We offer continuous personal development, a mentor, internal knowledge sharing, external training opportunities, and a clear progression framework. Our benefits include flexible and hybrid working options, performance and company bonus, pension matching, medical cover, holiday purchase/buy-back, cycle to work, and a car benefit scheme. The role is based in Salford Quays, Manchester, with core hours, part-time working options, and occasional travel to customer sites or other UK locations.

last updated 36 week of 2026

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About QinetiQ

QinetiQ

QinetiQ

Manchester

IT

Skills & Technologies

AIAgileDevOpsFigmaUXUI

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