Product UX/UI designer

About you

This is a role for a product UX/UI designer who wants to work directly with product and engineering teams in B2B technology start-ups and scale-ups. Not through an account manager. Not from a brief handed down through three layers of client services. You and the client work out what the business actually needs, then make it.

You’ll challenge the status quo and deliver design that is both beautiful to behold and beautiful to use. If you believe in design’s power to transform — not just to execute — and you want to see and feel the impact of your work directly, you’ll thrive at Kohde.

Product UX/UI designer job role

You’ll work directly with founders, CMOs and product teams to shape and develop new products and features within existing ones. You’ll also work alongside our brand and GTM team to shape messaging and product storytelling — because at Kohde, insights from product work feed directly into how our clients talk about what they’ve built.

As a product UX/UI designer at Kohde, you will:

• Turn a product vision into reality through discovery, requirements scoping, research, wireframing, prototyping, design system creation, UX and UI design, and developer handover
• Work with product owners and engineers — understand their constraints and build alongside them, not around them
• Create exceptional user experiences that challenge the status quo in B2B product design, with a strong eye on typographic hierarchy and brand custodianship
• Resist trends in favour of stand-out, memorable, ownable product experiences that transition seamlessly from brand to product and back again
• Work across the full spectrum — net new products, component libraries, design systems, and legacy products carrying years of design debt
• Present a portfolio that demonstrates craft and beauty, but also shows business-level problem-solving
• Defend your decisions with confidence, constructing arguments grounded in discovery and research
• Use Figma fluently, with a deep understanding of design systems, tokens, and UX/UI best practices
• Use Claude and AI tooling for research, rapid prototyping, and iteration — and bring your discoveries back to the team
• Articulate pain points and insights upstream and downstream, because what you uncover in product work shapes how clients tell their story
• See design in the context of what the business owner needs and what the user needs — and know when those things are in tension
• Trust your instinct when research is absent, rather than defaulting to the safe option
• Thrive in ambiguity, work self-sufficiently, and meet deadlines without needing to be chased
• Bring fiercely organised craft to every task, from the most significant project down to the smallest detail
• Listen before speaking, collaborate without ego, and push back when you need to — gently, but clearly

What we offer

• Health insurance gives you access to private healthcare to help cover costs.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays per year.
• Flexible, remote working with core hours where the whole team overlap for continuity. If you have morning or evening commitments, we can accommodate your schedule.
• A MacBook Pro, a 4K monitor and software.
• A learning budget for professional growth.
• Monthly socials and annual getaways.
• £55,000—£75,000 (DOE).

What makes a Kohder?

We are a small team, and your behaviours and attitude are just as important as your skills. This is what makes a good Kohder.

• You have a ‘can-do’ attitude and are proactive in advancing projects, large and small. You recognise your role in our collective journey.
• You always seek opportunities for improvement, both individually and collectively. You spot a recurring problem and work with your team to fix it.
• You are hungry; your default is to learn from good and bad experiences and strive to be better, not just turn up. Resting on your laurels doesn’t fulfil you.
• Skill, craft, and organisation are second nature and show up everywhere — from the most significant project down to the smallest task.
• Your approach to design is ego-less. This means you want to get it right, not be right. Your solutions and attitude are what’s best for the client, not what’s best for you. You are receptive to feedback, listen first, collaborate, and gently push back where necessary.