Senior UI Designer - London, United Kingdom - VML South Africa

Description

At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences.Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

We dream big – creating connected ecosystems, products and services – and we execute small – sweating the details to create consistent, performant customer experiences. Our Experience team delivers for brands including GE Healthcare, HSBC, Duracell, Mercedes Benz Vans, Microsoft, The Macallan, Pets at Home and Specsavers.

What we need from you

We dream big. We are seeking innovators who have a knack for designing immersive, creative and engaging digital ecosystems, products, and services – and we execute small – sweating the details to create consistent, performant customer experiences.

As a passionate user-centered designer, you will be committed to elevating design standards and refining the craft of creating meaningful and delightful experiences. The position entails pushing the visual direction, constructing brand frameworks, building atomic design systems, leveraging prototype tools to animate micro-interactions, while collaborating with development teams on proof of concepts, helping facilitate workshops, presenting work, and skillfully handling client feedback in sessions.

This is a role for someone continually growing and developing their leadership skills. Highly collaborative, you enjoy working and leading closely-knit teams – pushing things further. Not afraid to make the case for what you believe in, you work well under pressure, keeping your cool when the deadlines change.

You're likely to have knowledge and expertise in these areas

Work with multidisciplinary teams to create exceptional digital products

Passionate about all areas of the Human-Centered Design process to create deliverables grounded in insight aiming to validate hypotheses

Use prototyping tools like Figma, to not only communicate ideas and concepts, but to test with real customers to encourage collaboration and iterative processes

Craft branded micro-interactions and push the experience with knowledge of After Effects or other motion software

Effectively manage time within a project to facilitate the delivery of a digital product on budget and on time

Manage multiple stakeholder needs, interests, priorities and expectations effectively and sensitively

Contribute to strategic thinking and use analytics and other evaluation tools to help measure the impact of design strategies

Be an expert, continually learning about people, design and technology, and striving to improve design practice

Make the case for what you believe in, always advocating for the people who use our products and experiences

Tools you're likely to be confident in

Figma

Keynote & PowerPoint

Atlassian project management tools e.g. Confluence and Jira

Prototyping tools such as Protopie, Figma, Principle or Invision

About you

Joining WT represents a chance to create world-class experiences for some of the best brands out there. This role is all about driving the direction and development of customer experiences that matter.

This is a role for someone continually growing their development and leadership skills. Highly collaborative, you enjoy working in closely knit teams – pushing things just a little bit further. Not afraid to make the case for what you believe in, you work well under pressure, keeping your cool when the deadlines change. A natural with clients, you speak convincingly – and know how to get people excited about the work we do.

We don't settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday.

What we can offer you

We don't settle for people who can just do the job, we look for people that go beyond that and always push our thinking to be better than yesterday. We believe that this is what makes our agency a great place to be – a space where you're never far away from the best minds to learn from.

We want you to be comfortable and proud every day of the week and have created an open and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. We don't want you to just fit into our culture, we want your uniqueness and diversity of background to add to it and make this an agency where we all have a real sense of belonging and purpose. We are a community.

Our focus is on keeping teams connected and engaged whether we're in the office or working from home, putting people's wellbeing first, ensuring every person has access to our learning and development programme and building an inclusive workplace. We have a weekly 'Staying Connected Calendar' which is full to the brim of training you can get involved in, inspiration sessions hosted by external partners to check out and wellbeing classes and tips and tricks to look after your mind, body and soul. From yoga, Pilates, HIIT, hypnotherapy, a Strava cycling group, 1:1 resilience sessions and trained mental health first aiders. To name a few. Within our office we have a dedicated wellness studio and this year we built a brand new learning lab. Here we host weekly lunchtime lessons that supports iLearn, our learning & development portal home to 100s of sessions for you to access. We're also committed to building an inclusive, equitable and diverse workforce driven by our Inclusion Council and Employee Resource Groups; Rise, Unite, Re:think, Roots, Wellbeing and Access all Areas.

At VML, we are committed to fostering an all-inclusive work environment that is both rewarding and career-forward. Our Inclusion, Equity & Belonging initiatives, alongside the VML Foundation, reflect our dedication to giving back and making a positive impact in our communities and beyond. Our people are the heartbeat of our organization—creators, doers, innovators, makers, and thinkers—who drive not just marketing, but meaningful experiences that resonate in every action and interaction.

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When you click "Submit Application", this will send any information you add below to VML. Before you do this, we think it's a good idea to read through our Recruitment Privacy Policy . California residents should read our California Recruitment Privacy Notice . This explains what we do with your personal data when you apply for a role with us, and, how you can update the information you have provided us with or how to remove it.