Location: Hybrid - 3 days at VHQ, Crawley
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week. Monday to Friday
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive
Closing Date: 6th August 2026
We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it's our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
In a nutshell
We're looking for a Digital Product Designer to join our in-house Digital Design team.
The Digital Product Designers play a vital role in the design, development and performance of the Virgin Atlantic portfolio of digital products. As part of a multi-disciplined design team, they contribute at each stage of the digital design process: concepting, researching, prototyping, testing and finally delivering high-fidelity visual designs whilst working collaboratively with our in-house Digital Development & Delivery team on their implementation.
Digital Product Designers are champions of both the brand and the user, working to an overall annual product vision – including contributing to the business’s long-term vision for the digital experience – and quarterly planning cycles of agile delivery.
The Digital Product Designers will work collaboratively with both product and creative designers in the broader Creative team, to jointly share learning, push standards and seek innovation, ensuing the brand identity is flawlessly implemented, and user experiences are seamless from touchpoint to touchpoint.
Day to day
Some of your key responsibilities as our Digital Product Designer will be:
Design and deliver product roadmap
- Deliver the Virgin Atlantic digital roadmap through design strategy and execution, working to shared goals within a matrixed approach in collaboration with Digital Development & Delivery
Concept new products and solutions
- Help the business solve new problems, following best practice in design thinking to create innovative solutions to user needs
Brand-building through design
- Work with the Creative Team as a whole to play an influential role in brand identity, visual design and implementation of the brand narrative
Lead on user and brand experience
- Deliver a step change in the user experience of Virgin Atlantic digital products, championing the user and the brand within scrum teams and with wider business stakeholders – for instance in sprint reviews.
- Design interactions that put usability first, to create frictionless, pleasurable and unique experiences
- Accessible design by default, abiding to WCAG2.2AA
Develop and embed new processes
- Support the wider design team in developing better processes and establishing digital design practice across Virgin Atlantic. Work with Product Owners to ensure that products are conceived and designed in the right way
About You
We’d love for our successful Digital Product Designer to demonstrate the following:
- Solid experience in digital product design, with a strong portfolio showcasing UX/UI work.
- Proficiency in design tools – primarily Figma.
- Strong understanding of mobile and responsive design principles.
- Experience conducting user research and usability testing to inform design decisions.
- Familiarity with design systems and their application across digital touchpoints.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a user-centred design approach.
- Hands-on with AI tools and curious about where AI can take us
If this sounds like you, and you would like to unlock your potential with us, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself – Our differences make us stronger
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.
Our recipe for Leadership
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Skills Required
- Solid experience in digital product design with a strong UX/UI portfolio.
- Proficiency in design tools (primarily Figma).
- Strong understanding of mobile and responsive design principles.
- Experience conducting user research and usability testing.
- Familiarity with design systems and their application across digital touchpoints.
- Accessible design by default, abiding to WCAG2.2AA.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and work within agile/scrum.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a user-centred design approach.
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and interest in AI-driven design.
What We Do
Virgin Atlantic first took to the skies in 1984 to shake things up, bringing a sparkle of red, a touch of wit and a passion for flying to the grey world of airlines. We fell in love with creating the best experience in the skies for our customers, and they fell in love with us right back. Since then we’ve become Britain’s second largest carrier, with non-stop transatlantic routes including New York, Orlando, the Caribbean, Delhi and Johannesburg. And thanks to our hugely successful joint venture with Delta, Air France and KLM, we can seamlessly connect our customers to over 350 cities across North America, Europe and the UK. Today, we want to empower everyone to take on the world. The customers we proudly fly and our people who go the extra mile. As we embark on a brand spanking new era of travel, it gives us more opportunities to do things differently and lead the way with fresh ideas. This means becoming more sustainable for our planet and our destinations, and working hard to make travel open to everyone, no matter who you are, who you love or where you go. And of course never, ever, forgetting the small stuff - like the clink of champagne glasses on a special occasion or a cheeky cream tea at 30,000 feet.
