Senior Digital Designer

This is a key role within our creative team. You’ll lead projects end-to-end, from early discovery through to final design - bringing structure, direction and creative rigour throughout. Working closely with Creative, Development and Client Services, you’ll shape work that is clear, engaging and built to perform.

Day-to-day you’ll:

• Turn briefs into clear, intuitive digital experiences

• Contribute to discovery - including audits, research and workshops

• Create and drive UX outputs including sitemaps, wireframes and user journeys

• Design considered UI, from concept through to design systems

• Prepare work for build and collaborate closely with developers

• Present ideas clearly and confidently to clients and internaly

• Push creative thinking and elevate the quality of ideas

• Scope and estimate work with accuracy

• Own delivery from concept through to completion

• Review work, give feedback and uphold high creative standards

• Apply a strong understanding of brands to communicate clear, effective propositions

• Contribute to Nzime’s marketing and social

• Support video work, from storyboards to light post-production

• Design is how you think, not just what you do.

• 5+ years’ experience in a design role, ideally within an agency

• Strong UX/UI capability with the ability to turn ideas into clear, effective experiences

• Confident leading projects and making informed decisions

• Able to move seamlessly from UX thinking into refined UI

• Strong understanding of design principles

• Clear understanding of how design translates into frontend

• Comfortable presenting to clients and internal teams

• Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence

• Detail-focused, organised and consistent in your approach

• Confident using Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud

• Able to work independently and collaboratively

• Commercially aware - you understand scope, time and value

• Proactive, curious and motivated to improve

• Brings ideas, challenge thinking and push for better outcomes

• Experience across digital, with exposure to brand, motion and occasional print

• Invested in the success of the team and the wider business

• 24 days holiday (plus bank holidays and a full agency shutdown over Christmas - e.g. last year was a full week)

• As part of the holiday allowance you can allocate 4 weeks a year fully remote working - e.g. you can work abroad

• Flexi-time and hybrid working with a minimum of x2 days in the office per week (inc. Wednesday)

• Access to our wellbeing program - 121s, coaching and Nzime part funds any counselling or therapy to help people on that journey

• 3pm Friday finish

• Career development plan

• Monthly CPD days to learn and develop skills

• Trips to industry conferences and workshops

• Nest pension plan

• Creative central Nottingham office

• MacBook Pro with dual screens

• Social activities, beer fridge & Sega Rally arcade machine on free-play

Nzime's 25 years as a leading digital agency have earned us a reputation for passion, creativity, quality and strong client relationships. Our work speaks for itself and we're looking for someone that can join our energetic growing team and bring new ideas to a great environment.

Our Never Sit Still ethos drives us to go further, dig deeper and always resist the obvious - making sure the ideas we bring to the table solve real problems and create enduring value for the people and brands we partner with. Our vibrant rabble of big hearts and inquisitive minds give us a winning culture of tenacious energy and boundless curiosity. Our people share a real appetite to get under the skin of a brand, and into the heart of a problem.

We are an agency working with exciting national and global brands, delivering excellent digital experiences for over two decades. You would work amongst a talented and experienced Creative team with close collaboration with the Development and Client Services teams.

Salary dependent on experience.

If you like how we sound, drop a short email to laura@nzime.com with the following info:

Your focused portfolio, CV and salary expectation and notice period.

Please, no recruiters.

Nzime is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We believe in celebrating diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive space for all team members.