UX Designer

Location Country United Kingdom

Work Location Glasgow

Who are V? As a global leader in ship management and marine services, we add value to a vessel’s operations. Operating around the clock and around the world, V. gives every client the quality and efficiency they need in every sector. Covering crew management and recruitment, quality ship management and technical services, together with supporting management and commercial services, V. has an unrivalled industry knowledge with performance assured. Our values, We Care, We Collaborate, We Challenge, We are Consistent, We Commit and Deliver, are at the heart of everything we do and they support our strategy of Investing in Talent. We are always interested in making contact with talented individuals - people who will demonstrate our values and deliver great service, for internal and external stakeholders.

Overall Purpose of The Job

• The role is responsible for the user experience of ShipSure Enterprise Resource Management platform across all modules.
• Own interaction and visual design, translating user needs into clean, consistent, accessible interfaces and working closely with engineering to see them delivered.
• Manage the external agency responsible for the ShipSure design system, ensuring the component library, patterns and design tokens they produce are fit for purpose, consistently applied across modules, and integrated smoothly into delivery.

Key Responsibilities And Tasks UX & Interaction Design

• Design intuitive, consistent user experiences for ShipSure modules — user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes and high-fidelity UI in Figma.
• Translate product requirements and user research into clear interaction patterns for both desktop/web and mobile contexts.
• Champion usability and accessibility (WCAG) as first-class requirements across the platform.

Design Delivery & Front-End Collaboration

• Partner closely with front-end engineers to bring designs to life — providing detailed specifications, assets and hands-on guidance, and using AI-assisted tools to prototype and iterate where helpful.
• Ensure implemented interfaces match the agreed design and behave consistently across modules and devices.
• Define reusable, well-structured UI patterns and components for the shared library, in partnership with engineering.

Design System & Agency Management

• Manage the external agency delivering the ShipSure design system — setting expectations, reviewing outputs and holding them to quality and timelines.
• Own the integration of the design system (components, patterns and design tokens) into day-to-day delivery, ensuring consistent adoption across squads.
• Act as the bridge between the agency’s design-system work and the internal product, design and engineering teams.

Collaboration & Ways of Working

• Partner closely with Product Owners, Product Managers and engineers as the primary UX contact across modules.
• Contribute to design-partner and user-feedback sessions, synthesising insight into design improvements.
• Work within the AI-assisted SDLC / AI-PrDLC, using AI-assisted design and prototyping tooling to work at pace and contributing to continuous improvement of these workflows. Including writing prompts, and creation of artefacts.

What can I expect in return? V. Group can offer you a market leading salary and benefits package, in addition to significant opportunities for career growth and personal development. This a great opportunity to join a true leader in the maritime sector - a company that has exciting plans for future growth.

Essential

• 3–5 years’ experience as a UI/UX or product designer delivering production software.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with a portfolio demonstrating shipped, user-centred interfaces.
• Proficiency in Figma (or equivalent) for wireframing, prototyping and UI design.
• A strong working understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and component-based frameworks such as React) and how designs are implemented — enough to collaborate credibly with engineers, without needing to hand-code production features.
• Practical experience working with and contributing to a design system / component library and design tokens.
• Solid understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG) and responsive, cross-device design.
• Experience coordinating or managing external agencies or vendors, or a clear aptitude to do so.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working in cross-functional agile squads.

Desirable

• Experience in the maritime, shipping, logistics, or heavy-asset-management industry.
• Familiarity with enterprise or multi-tenant SaaS, ERP, or complex data-dense applications.
• Experience designing for both web and mobile within the same product.
• Experience with AI-assisted design and development tools and workflows.
• Familiarity with design-token tooling and design-to-code workflows.
• Write prompts and reuseable skills for the product and engineering team to build user interfaces with those components.

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