Senior UX Designer
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Design intuitive AI-powered experiences, applying Human-Centred AI principles to ensure transparency, trust, and ethical use.
- Build client understanding of AI, clearly framing capabilities, limitations, and responsible design choices.
- Translate research and business requirements into user interface and visual design concepts that maintain brand consistency and visual quality.
- Lead end-to-end design across discovery, concept development, interaction design, and delivery.
- Direct and oversee interface interactions through an iterative, evidence-based approach.
- Drawing insight from interviews, analytics, usability studies, and user feedback.
- Guide and support creation of user-centred design artefacts such as wireframes, information architecture and interactive prototypes.
- Take ownership of major areas of work, ensuring consistent high-quality delivery with minimal direction from senior management.
- Represent BAE DI in senior client engagement, presenting research findings, design rationale, and user needs clearly to teams, stakeholders and sponsors.
- Champion user-centred and agile design practices, driving a collaborative environment across delivery teams.
- Keep pace with emerging trends in AI, ML, and interface design, evaluating new tools, interaction patterns and responsible-AI practices to identify opportunities within secure government contexts.
- Evaluate and improve existing digital products with a focus on usability, inclusivity, and accessibility.
Requirements
- You’re an experienced UX, Service, or Product Designer
- You’re comfortable leading workshops, crafting prototypes, and clearly articulating design rationale for a range of audiences.
- Designing intuitive interfaces for AI-powered features and products, translating complex capabilities into clear, user-friendly experiences.
- Performing research to understand user types, behaviours, and needs — ensuring that digital experiences are truly user-led, whilst balancing business and technical constraints.
- Champion Human-Centred AI principles, ensuring AI features are transparent, ethical, and genuinely useful.
- Leading end-to-end design across discovery, concept development, interaction design, and delivery.
- Directing and overseeing tasks such as persona development, needs analysis, site mapping, wireframing, and prototyping, ensuring quality and consistency across outputs.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field.
- Proficiency in design software such as Figma.
- Familiarity with ethical AI frameworks and data privacy principles.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS, basic JavaScript).
Benefits
- Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
- 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
- Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
- You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
- You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme
- You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
UX designService designProduct designPrototypingWireframingInteraction designUsability testingHuman-Centred AI principlesHTMLCSS
Soft skills
Analytical skillsCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsLeadershipWorkshop facilitationUser advocacyDesign rationale articulationStakeholder engagementIterative design approachProblem-solving
Certifications
Degree in Interaction DesignDegree in Human-Computer Interaction