Senior Product Designer – Energy Trading
£500/day | Inside IR35 | Long-term rolling contract
London (Canary Wharf – 3 days per week onsite)
⚠️ Urgent requirement Candidates must have strong CVs and portfolios demonstrating enterprise-scale UX/UI delivery with Trading Platform experience.
We’re partnering with a leading digital transformation consultancy who are delivering critical programmes for a global energy trading business. They are urgently seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer to join the Trading organisation, working on complex, data-driven analytics platforms used daily by analysts and traders.
This is a rare opportunity for a London-based designer to embed directly with a high-performing product team in a secure trading environment. Onsite presence in Canary Wharf 2–3 days per week is a non-negotiable business requirement.
The Opportunity
You’ll play a pivotal role in transforming and modernising end-to-end analytical workflows across a major analytics ecosystem, including the Analytics Data Workbench. This is a hands-on senior role combining UX strategy, deep user understanding, and high-quality UI execution in a demanding, enterprise-scale environment.
You’ll work closely with product, engineering, analytics, and trading stakeholders, helping shape tools that support real-time, high-stakes decision making.
Key Responsibilities
UX Strategy & Direction
* Define and evolve the UX strategy for trading and analytics platforms
* Set design direction as datasets, users, and functionality scale
* Solve complex interaction and information design challenges in a data-heavy environment
Design Execution
* Lead user research and translate insights into actionable solutions
* Produce high-quality design artefacts, including:
* User journeys and service flows
* Information architecture
* Interaction models and patterns
* Wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes
* Deliver clear, structured, and visually consistent UI designs
* Contribute to and maintain standardised UI components and design systems
Collaboration & Delivery
* Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, developers, testers, and trading SMEs
* Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and design reviews
* Act as the voice of the user while balancing commercial, technical, and regulatory constraints
* Build strong relationships within a fast-paced, high-pressure trading environment
What They’re Looking For
Essential
* Senior-level experience in UX/UI design with enterprise software implementation
* Strong portfolio demonstrating complex, data-rich products (this is critical)
* Proven experience contributing to or leading UX strategy
* Excellent problem-solving, structured thinking, and communication skills
* Confident engaging with senior and specialist stakeholders
* Strong experience working in agile, cross-functional teams
* Advanced proficiency with Figma (this is a must, they want a Figma power user)
* Comfortable working across multiple fidelities and platforms
Highly Desirable
* Experience on analytics, AI, or data-led platforms
* Exposure to trading, financial services, energy, or front-office environments
* Strong understanding of how design translates into build, and comfort working closely with engineers
Personal Attributes
* UX all-rounder: equally comfortable with research, strategy, and UI delivery
* Self-motivated, robust, and resilient, able to operate in a demanding business environment
* Pragmatic, delivery-focused, and comfortable with pace and ambiguity
Contract Details
* Rate: £500 per day
* IR35: Inside IR35
* Duration: Long-term, rolling
* Location: Canary Wharf, London (2–3 days per week onsite – mandatory)