Senior UI Designer

About us

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 colleagues. 

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it. 

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and India. 

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco: 

• We develop our own products 

• We make an impact; large scale of operation 

• Accountability and respect are given to us 

• We cooperate and support each other 

• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here 

• We can develop and learn new things 

About the role

As a Senior UI Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket, you’ll be working on a complex, sophisticated design system that supports and works hand in hand with our product design teams. You’ll discover new opportunities, creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of our user’s design workflow from Figma to engineering handover. You’ll weigh business goals with our colleagues’ expectations, creating components and Figma library solutions that exceed both. Our Digital Design System is central to our design vision at Tesco. So, you’ll need true expertise working on all aspects of one. You’ll know how to fail fast, get back up, and try again. 

You will be responsible for

• Collaborate with your team members to design and maintain our libraries using variants, tokens, and other organizing and scaling principles resulting in flexible, reusable components for our platform libraries that are suitable for both designers to use in Figma and that are technically feasible for our engineers. 

• Implement and maintain processes to ensure the continued relevance and best user experience of the design system, including community support, research and testing its effectiveness. 

• Work hand in hand with the product teams to bring the design system to life inside all UI projects and help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs. 

• Inspire our users in how to use the Design System by designing best in class UI with it. 

• Work with product teams to identify opportunities for simplifying designs across products across the different business areas to keep our design system lean and efficient. 

• Deliver valuable, high-quality, and consistent work without sacrificing speed. 

• Help plan tasks against team objectives, strategic drivers, and key projects. 

• Create and maintain end user documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for our users. 

• Create and maintain engineering handover documentation. Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle. 

• Deeply understand design to development handover and can support other teams in this area. 

• Be the voice of the Digital Design System (DDS) for designers in other teams, helping them use the system to produce brilliant work. 

• Use Figma and Engineering analytics to help inform your work. 

• Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible (AA)designs and components. 

• Own all end-to-end UI process activities relevant to the design system workflow. 

• Collaborate with different disciplines inside product teams, working closely with UX & UI designers, researchers, UX writers, engineers, product managers, data analysts, and business stakeholders to explore, use, test and contribute to the design system. 

• Champion human-centred design inside and outside of your team. 

• Know how to validate your designs via A/B testing, unmoderated, usability testing, etc. and understand how product teams do this and its impact on the design system. 

• Facilitate workshops, run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions. 

• Help other disciplines understand the value the design system can bring to a project to build the best products. 

• Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency, remove obstacles, and simplify workflows. 

• Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole. 

• Help your teammates build expertise, strong decision-making skills, and empathy for our users. 

• Embrace opportunities to line manage other designers and help with their learning and development. 

• Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive, supportive, and inclusive team culture.

  
  

You will need

• 5+ years UI design experience. 

• A positive, constructive can-do attitude. 

• You are self-driven, motivated, independent. 

• You have good organisational and time-management skills 

• You are a system designer/thinker, you live by organisation and structure and efficiency. 

• A strong and demonstrable ability to simplify the complex. 

• You bring a systematic, scalable design approach to your work, considering how best to deliver component libraries, layouts, templates, and icons that scale across numerous platforms and products.

• Demonstrable significant experience designing and working on design systems for large organisations. 

• A passion for the latest design, AI, and engineering technology 

• You excel at bridging the gap between design and engineering. 

• A strong, well-curated portfolio demonstrating your expertise in design systems. 

• The highest level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma, specifically Figma focused on their library features. 

• Expertise in designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA for component and product design. 

• Ability to constructively critique design. 

• The ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. 

• A solid understanding of existing design systems such as Material design, and Fluent Design & an obsession with digital trends and design 

• Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines, including product and engineering. 

• Demonstrable ability to coach, mentor and set standards for ways of working. 

• Proactively share and communicate design expertise and knowledge with your peers and teams. 

• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, and the ability to present to all levels of seniority and subject area experts within the organisation. 

• A strong understanding of the end-to-end iterative design double diamond process. 

• Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc. 

• Exceptional visual & interaction design sensibility with a portfolio to prove it 

• Exceptional attention to detail, and a passion for building quality products 

• A strong knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and technologies. 

• Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience

Benefits:

Joining Tesco means being part of an exciting and diverse workplace, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues.

We offer:

• Permanent contract from the start, reflecting our trust in your abilities

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus based on individual and business performance

• Additional 4 days of paid leave for well-being and family life

• IP Tax Deductible Costs

• MacBook provided for work

• Private healthcare (LuxMed)

• Cafeteria & Multisport benefits

• Learning opportunities with certified technical training and platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'reily

• Sports activities with a personal trainer

• Referral Bonus

• Relocation Help

If this excites you, we'd love to hear from you! #aplacetogeton

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.