Who are we?
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.
The roleWhat will you be doing?
12 UX Design ConsultantHybrid – 3 days a week in Dorking office
What will you bring?
We’re looking for a UX Designer to join our product team and help create intuitive, user-centred digital experiences. You’ll work closely with product managers, developers, and other designers to deliver high-quality solutions that meet both user and business needs.
This role is ideal for a mid-weight designer looking to grow within a product-led, Agile environment, with the opportunity to develop skills across research, design, and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to UX design within cross-functional Agile teams, delivering design work as part of sprint cycles
- Support user research activities (e.g. interviews, usability testing) and apply insights to design solutions
- Create wireframes, user flows, and interactive prototypes using tools such as Figma, applying strong interaction design and information architecture principles
- Collaborate with developers to ensure designs are feasible and implemented effectively
- Apply existing design systems and contribute to their ongoing improvement
- Help optimise user journeys by analysing user behaviour and identifying areas for enhancement
- Taking ownership of design tasks from discovery through to delivery, working with ambiguity and shaping problem statements where needed
- Work closely with stakeholders across product, marketing, and technology, presenting design work and explaining rationale
Skills & Experience
- Experience in UX or Product Design, with a portfolio demonstrating your work
- Proficiency in Figma (or equivalent design tools) and prototyping at varying levels of fidelity
- Understanding of user-centred design principles, usability heuristics, and interaction design
- Experience collaborating with developers and working in iterative environments (Agile exposure beneficial), including prioritising UX work within delivery constraints
- Ability to translate requirements and insights into clear design solutions
- Comfortable supporting and running small-scale research activities
- Confidence presenting design work, defending decisions, and contributing to design critiques
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills
- Ability to challenge requirements constructively and advocate for user-centred outcomes
Desirable (Nice to Have)
- Experience supporting or conducting broader user research
- Familiarity with design systems
- Awareness of accessibility standards (e.g. WCAG)
- Experience contributing to workshops, ideation sessions, or facilitation activities
- Experience within financial services or regulated environments
The successful candidate can expect:
• Generous Bonus
• Healthcare Cash plan Level 1 Funded
• DC pension scheme
• Life, medical and income Insurance
• Access to remote GP, nutrition coaching, personal training, unlimited mental health support and medical 2nd opinion
• 27 days holiday with the option to buy and sell holiday up to 5 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme with on site charging facilities.
• Free Shuttle Bus from Dorking Train Station
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Why join us?
At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.
As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions.
If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
Company:
Unum UKSkills Required
- Experience in UX or Product Design with a portfolio demonstrating your work
- Proficiency in Figma or equivalent design tools and prototyping
- Understanding of user-centred design principles, usability heuristics, and interaction design
- Experience collaborating with developers and working in iterative/Agile environments
- Ability to translate requirements and insights into clear design solutions
- Comfortable supporting and running small-scale research activities (interviews, usability testing)
- Confidence presenting design work, defending decisions, and participating in design critiques
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and collaboration skills
- Ability to challenge requirements constructively and advocate for user-centred outcomes
- Experience supporting or conducting broader user research
- Familiarity with design systems
- Awareness of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG)
- Experience contributing to workshops, ideation sessions, or facilitation
- Experience within financial services or regulated environments
Unum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unum and has not been reviewed or approved by Unum.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as starting day one and include medical coverage along with employer-provided life, short-term disability, and long-term disability. On-site amenities like a gym and café are also part of the health-and-extras package in some locations.
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Retirement Support — The retirement offering is positioned as a standout through a high employer 401(k) contribution. This retirement support is repeatedly framed as a key draw within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is characterized as generous, with additional personal days and company closure days also described. The time-off program is presented as broader than many peers on paper.
Unum Insights
What We Do
Unum is a company of people serving people. A Fortune 500 company, we help millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace — benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures. Our products and services meet the needs of a diverse workforce that includes four generations, growing ethnic diversity and changing family dynamics. A strong commitment to social responsibility is one of Unum's core values. In fact, we place particular emphasis on contributing to positive change in the communities in which we live and work. Helping our communities become better is a natural extension of the commitment we make each and every day to our customers — to help employers manage their businesses and employees protect their families and livelihoods. We look forward to sharing industry news, community involvement, recognition and other info we hope you find interesting and informative. We encourage your comments and feedback so we can be a valuable resource for you and get to know you a little better.
