🎨 Design Lead – Digital Studio | eCommerce focus
📍 Full-time – Hybrid | 2 days in East London Studio
Are you a digital designer with a strong graphic design eye and a passion for standout eCommerce? Are you user-obsessed and detail-oriented with an appetite for understanding technology and everything that makes for engaging eCommerce experiences?
This is an incredible opportunity to join a small, high-impact (not to mention Award-winning) team as a Design Lead (equivalent to a Senior Designer), creating memorable online experiences for brands that don’t want the cookie-cutter treatment. Our client is a design and technology studio that blends design excellence with innovative thinking. They’re seeking a confident and collaborative Design Lead to help craft original, pixel-perfect work across UX and UI – with the creative freedom to make real impact.
This role will:
* Lead end-to-end digital design projects in eCommerce — from UX ideation through to refined UI.
* Work closely with in-house Product and Engineering teams, you'll bring ideas to life that are not only beautiful but usable — and you’ll be confident explaining the design rationale to developers, keeping one eye on feasibility and execution.
* Work iteratively using Figma and Agile methodologies to deliver clean, high-quality solutions.
* Help shape the design culture within the studio and contribute to a growing creative team.
This role needs:
* A minimum of 5 years' digital design experience, with a strong portfolio in eCommerce
* At least 3 years in an agency or studio setting
* A sharp eye for detail and high-quality craft — especially in graphic design, typography, and layout
* A user-first mindset, with the ability to take concepts from UX through to UI in tools like Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
* A confident communicator who can collaborate with engineers and product folks to get things shipped
* Confidence and creativity — you focus on delivering value to customers and are keen to learn and improve.
* Curiosity and proactivity — you stay on top of design trends and emerging tools
* Bonus points for familiarity with prototyping or motion tools (e.g. After Effects)
This role offers:
* Creative freedom and a chance to make a real visual impact
* A hybrid setup — Tuesdays and Thursdays in the studio, the rest flexible
* A genuinely supportive team who love what they do
* 27 days holiday + bank holidays + full Christmas closure
* ÂŁ250 annual wellness fund
* Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
* Personal development plans and regular 1:1s
* Free Team lunch every week, socials, and off-site days
* Client product discounts
What else?
You’ll be part of a team that truly cares — about the work, about each other, and about building memorable digital experiences that don’t just look great but feel great too. Ideas people, makers, problem-solvers — those who care about the details but can zoom out when needed.