Top Design Jobs in Manchester

Lead tem’s brand and creative direction through visual identity, campaign storytelling, digital experiences, and cross-functional work with Product and Growth. Build an AI-first creative practice, own the internal creative AI tool, establish studio systems and performance metrics, maintain high creative standards, and coach the team while remaining hands-on. The role requires fast, high-quality execution across channels, budgets, launches, and campaigns in a startup or scale-up environment.

Design and implement user-facing features by combining high-quality visual design and frontend engineering. Improve and expand the design system, build flexible components, collaborate with Product Engineers, ship to users quickly, iterate from feedback, and support customer-facing issues. Work spans wireframing, UI implementation, and end-to-end technical delivery.

Design and implement polished UI/UX at scale, improve and extend the design system, collaborate with product engineers, ship end-to-end features, iterate with user feedback, and consult on bespoke design work while balancing visual design and engineering responsibilities.

The Design Coordinator will manage design schedules, ensure alignment with project timelines, and facilitate communication between project and design teams, addressing client requests and health/safety regulations effectively.

Lead and manage the Design Department, overseeing personnel, resource planning, workflow, quality assurance, customer support, and technical development. Monitor metrics, optimize processes, mentor designers and managers, coordinate cross-functionally, oversee design software and documentation, and perform design work as needed to meet production schedules and customer commitments.

Build production-quality, pixel-accurate UI components and interactions in React Native; prototype in Figma with designers; own the design system and component library; improve performance, animations, and cross-platform UI architecture; define design-to-dev tooling and collaborate across design and engineering.

The Principal Design Engineer will shape AI-powered product experiences, lead design discussions, collaborate with teams, and mentor designers while advancing the design system.

Lead the design vision and team for Star Citizen and/or Squadron 42 in Manchester. Provide creative direction, architect content and workflows, hire and mentor senior designers, coordinate cross-discipline collaboration, manage priorities and iteration, and align design goals with production schedules.

Lead gas design from site surveys to detailed technical drawings, ensuring CDM 2015 compliance. Liaise with clients, consultants and onsite teams, review STAT plans, maintain H&S files, mentor junior staff, attend site visits, and manage designs through client governance while keeping schemes on budget and schedule.

Join the UK Power team focusing on high voltage substation and cable systems design and delivery while supporting national energy infrastructure projects.

The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer will design energy systems, lead engineering teams, conduct energy audits, and drive technical and commercial innovations.

Owns product development end to end by researching user problems, defining solutions, designing interfaces and prototypes in Figma, building production-ready React experiences, and iterating based on user behavior. The role combines product management, UX and visual design, and frontend engineering while improving workflows, component quality, responsiveness, accessibility of interactions, and design consistency.

Develop RTL for digital blocks, perform lint/CDC analysis and DFT support, assist in writing functional tests and simple UVM components, collaborate on verification and coverage closure, support AMS co-simulation and mixed-signal integration, and work with physical design on synthesis and timing.

Support development and continuous improvement of data products for electricity transmission network planning and operations. Define roadmaps, manage backlogs, gather requirements, validate data quality and lineage, collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams, enable analytics and governance, and measure product performance and adoption.

Lead design for the Seven Bridges Platform: own user journeys, build and maintain a design system (tokens, components), review prototypes, manage and grow designers, design AI-assisted experiences, collaborate with front-end engineers, use product analytics to prioritize experience debt, and represent design in leadership strategy.

Lead design of commercially competitive warehouse and transport solutions for tender responses. Analyse tender data, model resource and financial impacts, coordinate bids with operations and finance, prepare tender documentation and presentations, and support implementation of new contracts while advising on automation opportunities.

Lead earthing design studies and measurements for substations (up to 400 kV) including EMF calculations, EMI studies and lightning protection. Manage multiple projects, produce proposals, liaise with substation design teams, mitigate risks, and mentor junior engineers. Travel across the UK and overseas for site visits.

Hands-on director-level product designer for enterprise SaaS who owns the design system, user psychology, dashboards, data visualizations, and habit-forming product mechanics. Designs workflows to drive adoption, retention, referrals, and expansion while partnering with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success. Prototypes, tests, and refines UX based on analytics and A/B experiments to align design with revenue metrics.

As a Solution Design Engineer, you will create scalable technical solutions, translate requirements into designs, integrate AI technologies, and govern architectural standards within Agile teams.

The Shipboard Design Manager at Margaritaville at Sea oversees the development of guest communications and marketing materials, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines to enhance the onboard experience.

The Shipboard Design Manager enhances guest experiences by developing print and digital communications, collaborating with leadership, and ensuring brand consistency.

Provide technical leadership for polymer component design and analysis, interfacing with customers and cross-functional teams. Lead design proposals, generate/approve drawings and test/validation plans, perform failure analysis, support material disposition and continuous improvement, mentor junior engineers, and represent the company in technical meetings and presentations.

Lead and execute product design for a short-term rental SaaS: set design vision and standards, own the design system, lead a small player-coach design team, ship high‑impact work end-to-end, and use research, analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback to prove impact.

Design and simulate transistor-level analog/mixed-signal IC blocks (amplifiers, converters, power circuits), define architectures, integrate blocks into mixed-signal systems, present results to teams/customers, support layout, lab evaluation and test, mentor others, and improve design methodologies to meet power, timing and functional objectives.

As a Designer, create engaging designs, contribute innovative ideas, deliver high-quality work, and develop rich visual content in a collaborative environment.