Job Overview
Location
United Kingdom
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
July 4, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Design new user journeys, features, and products for Reedsy’s marketplace platform serving 5 million authors, working directly with founders, the Lead Designer, and engineering teams.
- • Contribute to maintaining and evolving existing applications by refining interfaces, improving usability, and ensuring consistency across all digital touchpoints.
- • Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for Reedsy’s design system and component library to ensure scalable and cohesive product experiences.
- • Develop at least some of the front-end code for your designs, collaborating closely with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect and functional implementation.
- • Apply strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles to solve complex user problems and simplify workflows for authors and publishing professionals.
- • Maintain a critical eye for detail in every design deliverable, from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes, ensuring alignment with brand standards and user needs.
- • Communicate design decisions clearly and effectively to cross-functional teams, using storytelling and data-informed reasoning to advocate for user-centered solutions.
- • Work remotely as part of a distributed team, managing your own schedule while maintaining high responsiveness and alignment with global colleagues.
- • Participate in user research synthesis and usability testing feedback loops to inform iterative design improvements.
- • Translate business goals and technical constraints into intuitive, accessible, and aesthetically pleasing interfaces that enhance the author’s publishing experience.
- • Stay current with evolving design trends, tools, and accessibility standards, and apply insights to continuously elevate Reedsy’s product quality.
- • Collaborate across departments to ensure design consistency across multiple products within the Reedsy ecosystem, including author-facing tools and professional service marketplaces.
- • Document design rationale, component usage, and design system updates to enable seamless handoff and adoption by internal teams and external contractors.
- • Advocate for user-centered design practices across the organization, helping to embed design thinking into product development cycles.
- • Balance creative freedom with operational constraints, delivering high-quality outputs within agile timelines without compromising usability or visual integrity.
- • Engage with a global community of authors and publishing professionals to understand diverse needs and design inclusive experiences.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience as a UX/UI designer with ability to implement (some of) your own designs
- • Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma
- • Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles
- • A portfolio of design work
- • Perfectly fluent in English with great communication skills
- • Experience working remotely
🏖️ Benefits
- • Experience working with fast-growing Series A – B startups
- • Experience with Ruby on Rails
- • Fluent in multiple languages
- • A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor
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About Reedsy Limited
Reedsy Limited operates an online marketplace connecting authors and publishers with vetted freelance professionals in editing, design, marketing, and ghostwriting. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, the platform offers project management tools, secure payments, and curated talent pools. It also provides free educational resources, formatting tools, and a storefront for selling books directly to readers, supporting independent publishing workflows from manuscript to market.
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