Job Overview

Job Title: Senior UX Designer (maternity cover)

Contract: 9 Months Fixed Term Contract 

Location: London - Hybrid

Application Closing Date: Friday 13th February 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior UX Designer to join BMJ Group's UX team for a maternity cover contract role (9 months). Come and help us get a wider understanding of user needs to design and develop products that healthcare professionals love. Join us and you’ll make a significant contribution to BMJ Group’s vision of ‘Creating a healthier world’.

The Senior UX Designer will join BMJ Group’s central UX team and work within our Learning product team. This role will lead on all UX activities and UCD thinking for BMJ Learning, BMJ OnExam and BMJ Portfolio to ensure end-user and customer needs are at the heart of the design and development process.

BMJ Learning is on a mission to empower all Healthcare Professionals to learn, grow and create a healthier world. We are an online learning platform specifically for the healthcare sector, think LinkedIn Learning but for Doctors and Nurses! We’re already an established brand having a positive impact on healthcare professionals and their patients. However, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement and growth of the product. 

We’re coming to the end of rebuilding and migrating the platform to a new technology stack, so now we are free to start making the big improvements that will delight our users. Crucially, this includes expanding our ecosystem to integrate stand-alone products like BMJ Portfolio and BMJ OnExam into one seamless learning experience.

We are looking for someone who understands the value of thinking and can solve problems using data, research and experience testing, and together with an understanding of front-end and design concepts, can create engaging experiences that are commercially successful.

Responsibilities

• Lead a user-centred design (UCD) approach to support BMJ Learning and associated products, drawing on the necessary UX methods and tools relevant to any given project

• Take complex requirements and create conceptual designs and user journeys to solve usability issues and customer problems

• Plan and conduct iterative user research and usability testing for gathering insight on user needs and behaviours, both face-to-face and remotely.

• Augment, improve and maintain design systems

• Facilitate multidisciplinary teams to identify and understand market/user problems

• Ensure products are designed and developed accessibly and inclusively in line with WCAG 2.2 AA standards

• Follow, and advocate for, our in-house product development process

• Present progress on projects and research findings in a concise and compelling way to large groups and stakeholders of varying seniority

• Work closely with our Senior User Researcher and Experimentation Lead on qualitative and quantitative research activities.

Skills & Experience

• Expert in interaction design; rapidly putting user needs, stakeholder requirements and usability best practice into a justifiable design (sketch, wireframe or prototype) and communicating this to non UX teams and eliciting feedback from end-users

• Balance the needs of users with those of the business while considering technical constraints

• Think people first so that solutions work across appropriate environments and device-types

• The ability to understand complex scenarios and translate into conceptual designs and user journeys via clickable prototypes to test and iterate with users

• Support, influence and convince stakeholders to consider the needs of their users and customers above their own ideas and opinions

• Good communication skills are essential when working in an agile, remote-first product delivery environment with an off-shore dev team

• Multi-platform experience across all devices

• Significant experience with wire-framing/prototyping tools e.g. Figma (req.), InVision, Sketch, Axure

• Experience in remote usability testing methods and tools

• HTML/CSS skills are a huge bonus as is A/B and MVT experimentation experience.

Why work for us

Help us create a healthier world. We are a global healthcare knowledge provider. We publish The BMJ, one of the world’s most impactful medical journals and over 70 influential speciality journals. We offer digital tools to help health professionals worldwide tackle critical healthcare challenges. Find out more about us here.

Flexible Work and Workplace Perks

• We’re committed to flexible working that supports both your needs and the requirements of the role.

Generous benefits

• Generous double-matching employer pension contribution, up to 12%

• Discounted dental and travel insurance

• Seven x salary life assurance cover and a generous income protection package

• Discounted gym membership, cycle-to-work and season ticket loan

• Discounts for retail and leisure products through yourReward 

Work-life balance and wellbeing

• Twenty-five days holiday + bank holidays + a BMJ Day off.

• Additional holiday through long service; buy up to 5 additional days 

• Leave for moving house, volunteering or getting married

• Concierge service Seniorcare by Lottie

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion are not buzzwords to us, but fundamental company priorities

• We believe that a diverse workforce brings unique strengths and insights, enabling us to better serve our customers and drive positive change in our industry. 

• If you are from an under-represented or historically marginalised community, we are particularly interested in hearing from you. 

• Join our employee-led networks focusing on Gender, Race and Cultural Diversity, Sexual Orientation, Mental Health and Well-being, Parents and Carers and Age.

• Disability Confident Committed employer

Learning & Development

• Personal development plan 

• Mentoring scheme

• Career Coaching

• Opportunities to pursue professional development

• Strengths-based development