UX/UI Designer

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

Job Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.

Why consider joining our Digital & Data community? 🤔

Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.

Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn’t align with what you want to do.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.

Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same

Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring

Deepen your expertise through our a culture of learning and growth – you’ll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications

About the role 🚀

As a UX/UI Designer at PA Consulting, you’ll design practical, usable interfaces and flows that move products from 0 --> 1 and beyond. You’ll sometimes sit at the heart of multidisciplinary delivery teams and sometimes contribute as an individual designer embedded with a client—all while staying connected to our Design discipline and the wider Digital & Data community.

You’ll flex to different contexts—one week shaping product UI for a global consumer brand, the next helping visualise journeys for a UK services client—always focused on real outcomes and pragmatic craft-proud delivery.

What you’ll do 🌱

• Design user journeys, flows, wireframes, prototypes (manually and using Figma Make, or similar generative platforms) and UI that support shipping working software across web and mobile
• Take concepts from concept to production‑ready designs and iterate based on evidence or judgement and market-leading best practices
• Work at pace in agile dual‑track cycles (discovery and delivery), adapting scope and fidelity as needed to meet the goals of both projects, organisations and users alike
• Often partner with engineering, product and other designers to make practical decisions quickly both on and off projects
• Contribute to and use design systems; keep patterns consistent and accessible.
• Apply AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Miro, ChatGPT, Claude, agentic workflows, and other generative tooling) to speed ideation, auditing, documentation and analysis
• Facilitate client workshops, whiteboarding and design reviews, present decisions clearly

Qualifications

Who you are 💭

• A hands‑on UX/UI practitioner with shipped product experience
• Comfortable balancing best practice with technical constraints and timelines
• Clear and concise when explaining design decisions to any audience
• Curious and experimental with AI‑enabled design workflows
• A constructive challenger who can reframe problems and propose workable options
• Collaborative, adaptable and energised by multidisciplinary delivery

How you operate 🧠

• Break down ambiguity into concrete steps; keep momentum without losing quality
• Use AI intentionally to explore options faster and document decisions — never as a crutch
• Share early, invite critique, and iterate with evidence
• Switch fluidly between team‑based delivery and individual contributor setups
• Stay pragmatic: focus on value, feasibility and the next right increment
• Fun, creative, energetic and contagiously optimistic

Why this role may not be the right fit

• If you prefer a one‑size‑fits‑all process or fixed toolkit for every problem
• If you’re uncomfortable with client‑facing work, facilitation and (sometimes) frequently changing contexts
• If you want long‑term, single‑product stability over varied, time‑boxed consulting engagements
• If you avoid feedback loops or aren’t comfortable sharing work early
• If you’re not open to using AI in your workflow or to actively learning, applying and sharing new tools
• If you need strict role boundaries and don’t want to flex to adjacent design activities
• If you’re not interested in stretching yourself, taking initiative, or shaping your own growth at PA, this won’t be the right environment

Additional Information

Assessment process ⚖️

Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.

• Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters – to discuss your application, the role and PA
• Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (45 mins)
• Round 2: A mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins)
• Final round 🎉: Meeting with a PA leader (60 mins)

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.