UX/UI Designer

What you will do

• Product and experience design
• Design clear, intuitive and accessible experiences for Holtara.io, from early concepts and user flows through to polished interfaces and implementation.
• At least 5 years of related experience
• Translate complex sustainability, regulatory and data requirements into simple and understandable user journeys.
• Create wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs that enable teams to explore ideas, test solutions and communicate requirements.
• Work closely with Product Managers and developers throughout discovery, design, delivery and iteration.
• Contribute to and evolve the Holtara.io design system, improving consistency, scalability and quality across the platform.
• Review implemented designs and collaborate with developers to ensure that the final experience reflects the intended interaction and visual design.
• Use product analytics, user feedback and research findings to identify usability issues and opportunities for improvement.
• User research
• Plan and conduct interviews, usability testing, workshops and other qualitative research with clients, prospective users and internal teams.
• Analyse research findings, behavioural data and product usage information to identify patterns, needs and areas of friction.
• Turn research into practical outputs such as user needs, journey maps, research summaries, opportunity areas and design recommendations.
• Help teams distinguish between assumptions, opinions and evidence when making product decisions.
• Build repeatable approaches for recruiting participants, recording insights, sharing findings and maintaining a useful research repository.
• Communicate findings clearly to Product, Engineering, Advisory, Data and senior stakeholders.
• Advocate for users while balancing their needs with commercial priorities, technical constraints and Holtara’s product strategy.
• Brand and visual communication
• Support the design and continuous improvement of the Holtara website and other digital experiences.
• Create or refine marketing and business-development materials, including campaign assets, presentations, propositions and product communications.
• Work with our Advisory teams to improve the presentation of reports, dashboards, frameworks and client-facing deliverables.
• Help translate complex data and sustainability insights into visual stories that are credible, engaging and easy to understand.
• Promote consistency across the Holtara brand while adapting the design approach to different audiences and formats.
• What we are looking for
• Strong professional experience in UX, UI or product design, supported by a portfolio that demonstrates your process and the impact of your work.
• Practical experience conducting user research, particularly interviews and usability testing.
• The ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative information and turn it into clear design decisions.
• Experience designing complex B2B software, data products, enterprise platforms or configurable workflows.
• Strong interaction design, information architecture and visual design skills.
• Confidence producing user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity interfaces.
• Experience working with design systems and creating reusable components and patterns.
• Proficiency with Figma or an equivalent modern design and prototyping tool and AI.
• The ability to communicate design rationale clearly and constructively to technical and non-technical colleagues.
• A collaborative, pragmatic approach and the confidence to challenge assumptions when evidence points in a different direction.
• Strong attention to detail without losing sight of the wider user journey or business problem.
• The ability to manage work across different formats, from software interfaces to websites, reports and presentation materials.
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• It would be beneficial if you also have
• Experience with data visualisation, dashboards or analytical products.
• Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Experience working with websites, content management systems or digital marketing teams.
• An interest in sustainability, ESG, private markets or financial services.
• Experience designing reports, thought leadership or client-facing consultancy outputs.
• Familiarity with product analytics and methods for combining behavioural data with qualitative research.
• An interest in emerging design and prototyping tools, including responsible uses of AI.
• You do not need to be a sustainability expert when you join. Curiosity, an ability to learn and an interest in using design to make complex subjects more accessible will be more important.
• What success will look like
• You will help Holtara develop a deeper and more evidence-based understanding of its users. Research will become a visible part of product decisions, key journeys in Holtara.io will become simpler and more consistent, and our design system will continue to mature.
• Beyond the platform, your work will help create a more coherent Holtara experience across our website, marketing communications and advisory outputs. The result should be design that is not only visually strong, but genuinely useful: helping users understand information, complete tasks and make better sustainability decisions.
• Why join us?
• This is an opportunity to shape a growing product and design practice while working on meaningful, complex problems. You will have influence across the full design process, from discovering user needs to seeing solutions implemented and used.
• You will work with colleagues across Product, Engineering, Data, Sustainability, Advisory and Marketing, giving you exposure to a wide variety of challenges and perspectives. Most importantly, you will use design to help make sustainability data and insights more accessible, useful and actionable.
• Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.