14 of 14 Design Thinking Jobs in the North of England

Lead Product Designer (Remote | $70-$80/hr)

Hiring Organisation
Synthires
Location
Leeds, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Description Design Expert Position: Design Expert Type: Freelance Hourly Contract Compensation: $70–$80/hour Location: Remote About the Opportunity This opportunity is for experienced Product Design, UX/UI, and AI-Assisted Development professionals interested in contributing to advanced AI research and evaluation projects involving rapid … prototyping, product design, and human-AI collaborative development workflows. The role focuses on creating realistic design and development scenarios, developing reference solutions, and building evaluation criteria that reflect how senior designers, product builders, and AI-native developers operate in modern product organizations. You'll apply your expertise ...

Lead Product Designer (Remote | $70-$80/hr)

Hiring Organisation
Synthires
Location
Ashton-Under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
Description Design Expert Position: Design Expert Type: Freelance Hourly Contract Compensation: $70–$80/hour Location: Remote About the Opportunity This opportunity is for experienced Product Design, UX/UI, and AI-Assisted Development professionals interested in contributing to advanced AI research and evaluation projects involving rapid … prototyping, product design, and human-AI collaborative development workflows. The role focuses on creating realistic design and development scenarios, developing reference solutions, and building evaluation criteria that reflect how senior designers, product builders, and AI-native developers operate in modern product organizations. You'll apply your expertise ...

UX Design Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£70,000
User Experience (UX) Design Lead you will be accountable for the user experience design across all YBS group digital channels. Youll lead a team of 12 UX Designers within an Agile delivery environment and work in partnership with Product Owners, Developers, Content Designers and SMEs to deliver … outstanding experience design capability. This is a strategic leadership role that combines creative hands-on design expertise with the people leadership. Why join us now? We are at a very exciting place in our digital transformation journey and this role will give you the brilliant opportunity ...

CONTRACT SENIOR UX DESIGNER - INSIDE IR35

Hiring Organisation
Searchability (UK) Ltd
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £570 per day
Senior UX Designer 6-Month Contract | Inside IR35 | £500 - £570 Per Day | Hybrid - Leeds (2 Days Per Week) Senior UX Designer - UX Design/Figma/User Research/Stakeholder Management NEW CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY available for a Senior UX Designer to join a leading organisation on an exciting digital … transformation programme. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING You'll join a growing product design team working across digital investment and pension platforms, helping shape intuitive and engaging user experiences for a broad customer base. Working across the full design lifecycle, you'll take ownership from discovery through ...

Service Designer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
ensuring services are designed around customer needs while delivering measurable outcomes for the business. What You'll Be Doing Lead end-to-end Service Design activities from discovery through to implementation. Define and solve complex service challenges across customer-facing and operational processes. Design future-state services that … integrate digital, automated, and human touchpoints. Map customer journeys, service blueprints, ecosystems, and operational processes. Facilitate workshops and design-thinking sessions with cross-functional stakeholders. Gather insights from users, colleagues, and stakeholders to shape service improvements. Translate research and business requirements into practical, user-centred solutions. Measure ...

Service Designer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
ensuring services are designed around customer needs while delivering measurable outcomes for the business. What You'll Be Doing Lead end-to-end Service Design activities from discovery through to implementation. Define and solve complex service challenges across customer-facing and operational processes. Design future-state services that … integrate digital, automated, and human touchpoints. Map customer journeys, service blueprints, ecosystems, and operational processes. Facilitate workshops and design-thinking sessions with cross-functional stakeholders. Gather insights from users, colleagues, and stakeholders to shape service improvements. Translate research and business requirements into practical, user-centred solutions. Measure ...

Senior Service Designer

Hiring Organisation
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£70,000
Service Designer (senior) you will be part of the Service Design Team working across YBS customer facing channels including digital, telephony and retail. You will contribute to strategic thinking across all customer channels (Digital, Retail, Customer Services) and drive Service innovation, across channels, for the YBS group. This … brilliant opportunity to set direction, drive forward improvements and make a real impact, all whilst being part of a friendly, enthusiastic and supportive Experience Design team. This is a hybrid role with remote working and some onsite presence in our central Leeds offices. This is a Fixed Term Contract ...

Service Design Lead

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Service Design Lead you will manage and lead the Service Design Team working across YBS customer facing channels including digital, telephony and retail. You will sets the direction for the team to ensure they fully contribute to strategic thinking across all customer channels (Digital, Retail, Customer Services … brilliant opportunity to set direction, drive forward improvements and make a real impact, all whilst being part of a friendly, enthusiastic and supportive Experience Design team. This is a hybrid role with remote working and some onsite presence in our central Leeds offices. This is a Fixed Term Contract ...

Technical Business Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£55,000
functional technology teams Desirable Experience: Experience with business change and transformation projects Background working within public sector or regulated environments Knowledge of BPMN, UML, Design Thinking, or structured solution design techniques Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Salesforce, or emerging technologies including GenAI Familiarity with ...

Business Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£55,000
functional technology teams Desirable Experience: Experience with business change and transformation projects Background working within public sector or regulated environments Knowledge of BPMN, UML, Design Thinking, or structured solution design techniques Exposure to cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Salesforce, or emerging technologies including GenAI Familiarity with ...

Vice President, POM Technical Product Management

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
closely with the locally based Head of Operations, and the Heads of Product and Engineering based in Pune. Mission Drive end‐to‐end platform thinking across Product, Engineering, and Operations. Deliver transformative automation, insights, and process improvements using agentic AI solutions that enhance controls, efficiency, and client outcomes. Build … highlight trade‐offs. AI‐Enabled Transformation and Engineering Partnership Identify and validate AI/ML opportunities (e.g., anomaly detection, match optimization, exception triage); design‐controlled pilots and scale proven solutions. Partner with engineering to prioritize capabilities, ensure backlog quality, and define non‐functional requirements (resilience, controls, scalability). Align ...

Digital Strategist

Hiring Organisation
Reason Digital | B CorpTM
Location
Manchester, UK
Employment Type
Full-time
what clients and their users need Deliver strategic projects - exploring problem areas and providing clear solutions and recommendations Support the Discovery phase of design and build projects through workshops, desk research, data analysis and user research Generate insight from qualitative and quantitative user data to inform the design … strategies Ability to advise across a range of technologies including websites, apps, AI and chatbots Familiarity with digital product development, digital marketing and design thinking techniques Commercial awareness - inputting into proposals, pitches and estimates, and helping clients secure funding for digital projects Agency experience (or comparable multi-project ...

Agile Delivery Lead: 3 Month Contract - Hybrid/Manchester

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
experienced and have a successful track record of delivering complex technology projects and programmes through multi-disciplinary teams using agile, lean software and design-thinking development methodologies. Specialist skills in agile delivery standards and practices within the full software development lifecycle with strong stakeholder management capabilities. Proficient ...

Agile Delivery Lead: 3 Month Contract - Hybrid/Manchester

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
Salary negotiable
experienced and have a successful track record of delivering complex technology projects and programmes through multi-disciplinary teams using agile, lean software and design-thinking development methodologies. Specialist skills in agile delivery standards and practices within the full software development lifecycle with strong stakeholder management capabilities. Proficient ...