About This Role
Designing for environments that push technology to its limits, with degraded connectivity, high-stakes decisions, and complex operational contexts, is the core of this UX Designer role. This position suits a designer who thrives in complexity, taking ambiguous problems and building clear understandings to create well-reasoned design approaches. It is a high-autonomy role with significant influence over problem definition and solution shaping, working closely with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end UX design: from early problem framing and research through to implementation, with real accountability for the quality of what ships
- Make sense of complex, ambiguous problem spaces, building structured understanding, identifying options, and communicating clear recommendations with honest trade-offs
- Produce design artefacts at the right fidelity for the moment: flows, wireframes, prototypes, whatever moves the work forward most effectively
- Plan and conduct user research, including interviews, surveys, and moderated usability testing, and translate findings into concrete design decisions and product direction
- Work directly with front-end engineers during delivery: refining designs in context, resolving edge cases, and ensuring what gets built matches intent
- Design with accessibility in mind, applying relevant standards (WCAG) so products work for users with diverse needs and abilities
- Contribute to a coherent product experience across the platform, establishing scalable patterns where appropriate
- Communicate design thinking clearly across the business, to engineers, product stakeholders, and senior leadership alike
- Represent the user throughout the organisation and contribute to the development of the wider product and design team
Requirements
- Strong experience designing complex digital products, focusing on the full UX problem: understanding users, structuring systems, making decisions under uncertainty
- A portfolio showing end-to-end design work on technically complex products, with evidence of your thinking as well as your output
- Proven ability to take a loosely-defined, ambiguous problem, build a clear understanding of what’s actually going on, and turn it into a well-reasoned design approach that holds up under scrutiny
- Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance
About the Company
Rowden is building the UK’s next generation engineering powerhouse, providing critical technology that strengthens national security and resilience. The company specialises in turning advances in sensing, AI, and communications into operational capability for the edge, where connectivity may be degraded or denied. Rowden employs around 200 people, operates over 20,000 square feet of engineering and manufacturing facilities, and has a growing international footprint, making it one of Europe’s fastest-growing engineering businesses.
