UI/UX Engineer

This role at Veriforce owns the product design of our new Carbon Hub platform end to end — from ideation through to the interfaces users actually work in. You will conceive the user experiences, exploring concepts, testing them with real users where appropriate, and iterating until the solution is right. You will also be responsible for leveraging the Veriforce Design System, adding new components where appropriate and ensuring it is applied consistently across the platform. You are a product designer who thinks in systems and user outcomes, with a strong sense of craft and interaction detail. You are comfortable running research and usability sessions, and comfortable in Figma shaping the details of what ships. If you can also build in a code editor, so much the better. If you’re unable to do so right now, you must be keen to learn. This role will report to the Director of UI/UX design with a dotted line to the Senior Product Manager, Platform. For the foreseeable future your day to day will be part of the Carbon Product Team led by the Senior Product Director for Sustainability Products. Their remit spans PlanetMark and the SafePlanet suite of products. In due course you will likely work on other UK products too. At Veriforce, we help companies in high-risk industries keep their people, worksites, and supply chains safe and compliant. As a global leader in contractor and supply chain risk management, our SaaS platform simplifies contractor onboarding, credentialing, and compliance while providing powerful analytics and insights. Beyond software, we offer expert support, training, and consulting so our clients can operate with confidence. Together, we’re making workplaces safer every day. What that means day to day • Own the product design of the Carbon Hub platform end to end, from ideation through to shipped experience. • Collaborate with product managers to define the user or business problem we’re trying to solve • Collaborate with the Voice of the Customer team to run the right amount of product discovery — user interviews, stakeholder workshops, competitor and workflow analysis — to explore problems before designing solutions. We will be moving at pace, so we will ship low risk solutions with no user testing and minimal discovery. For high-risk solutions or core user journeys we will proactively leverage product discovery and seek market feedback. • Conceive and explore user experiences: concepts, user flows, information architecture, and interaction models. • Plan and run usability testing and other validation, and iterate designs based on what you learn. • Define and evolve the platform's design principles, patterns, and end-to-end user journeys. • Build and maintain reusable components and design tokens in the Veriforce Design System using modern front-end technologies. • Take your own designs through high-fidelity, accessible, and performant production interfaces, in code where appropriate. • Lead ideation with product, engineering, and design peers, prototyping interactions, motion, and complex states to test ideas quickly. • Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA), responsive design, and cross-browser compatibility across our product surfaces. • Optimize front-end performance, including Core Web Vitals, bundle size, and runtime rendering. • Contribute to the design system's documentation (e.g. Storybook), testing, and release process. • Work with engineers to define and uphold front-end architecture patterns, linting rules, and quality gates. • Review pull requests for UI quality, consistency, and accessibility. • Partner with QA and design to validate visual regression testing and interaction fidelity. • Evaluate and pilot new front-end tools, libraries, and AI-assisted development workflows. What you’ll need to be successful Essential • 7+ years experience, 5+ years of which should beproduct design experience owning end-to-end product work — discovery, concept, interaction design, and validation — for shipped digital products. • 2+ years experience in B2B SaaS • A portfolio demonstrating problems you framed and solutions you conceived, not only interfaces you built. • Demonstrable experience running product discovery and user research, and turning findings into design decisions. • Hands-on experience planning and running usability testing, and iterating on the results. • Strong experience with multiple frontend-end frameworks (React, AngularJS, Angular, etc.) and a modern component architecture. • Hands-on experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries. • Experience driving design system adoption across large, multi-repo environments with distributed teams • Fluency in Figma as your primary design tool, including prototyping and design-system work. • Deep understanding of web accessibility (WCAG 2.2), ARIA, and keyboard interaction patterns. • Strong appetite to leverage AI to drive productivity in your day and drive efficiencies in the solutions we build • Experience with design tokens, theming, and responsive layout techniques. • Strong eye for visual detail, interaction design, and motion. • Experience collaborating in agile, cross-functional product teams. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Desirable • Experience with design system tools such as Storybook or Tokens Studio. • Experience with animation and complex micro-interactions. • Familiarity with front-end testing visual regression tools. • Experience designing or engineering for mobile or field-worker scenarios. • Experience owning design for a whole platform or product suite rather than a single feature area. • Familiarity with research operations — participant recruitment, research repositories, and synthesis methods. • Exposure to B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or regulated industries. • Interest in AI/LLM UX patterns and integrating AI-assisted features into products. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent experience). • Experience shipping production web applications in a front-end engineering capacity. • Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript. What you'll get in return We have a hybrid workplace policy, where you will work from the office 3 days per week. We want you to be able to do your best work here. We emphasize providing many ways to support our team to do their best work and below are some of the perks and benefits we offer: Personal Health & Wellbeing / Benefits >🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave >🌴Generous annual leave, with the option to buy additional days >🏥 Healthcare Plan >💟 Annual Giving Day – an extra day to give back to yourself or your community >🚲 Cycle-to-work Scheme > 🚗 EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme Future Planning > 💰 Pension scheme with employer contributions >🧬 Life Assurance – 3X base salary >💸 Rewards Program – access to discounts and cashback >🏫 LinkedIn Learning License for upskilling & development Interested but don’t feel you meet all the requirements? Our recruitment team assesses and reviews all applications against the role and business needs. We believe in people having transferable and soft skills and want you to know that we do consider where an individual might not meet all the criteria, but have the aptitude and capability, nonetheless. Our priority is to ensure we set people up for success. We will make a final call based on our determining whether we can offer the necessary support to upskill or provide the developmental support needed for you to get the best out of this opportunity with us! Bring Your Whole Self to Work. We are proudly an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to ensuring that no candidate is discriminated against because of gender identity and expression, race, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, colour, region, creed, national origin, or sex. We are dedicated to growing a diverse team while continuing to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels safe and empowered to be themselves. What you can expect if you apply: A response to your application within 15 working days An interview process consisting of: An initial discovery call with the recruiter A first stage interview via Microsoft Teams Additional interview (likely face to face) with the stakeholders you’ll be working with closely in the role We’re keen to ensure our hiring process allows you to be at your best, so if you need us to make any adjustments, please just let us know.