Visual and UI Designer

Location: Borough, London

Competitive salary dependent on experience. Company performance-related bonus, healthcare insurance & wellbeing benefits.

About Liv-ex

We offer a multitude of business services covering trading opportunities, data, logistics and various automation technologies; aimed at a diverse group of wine businesses, from ambitious young start-ups to established merchants and traders.

Our aim is to make the wine trade more transparent, efficient and safe, for the benefit of our members and the market as a whole.

We are hardworking, committed and action oriented, retaining a valued neutrality in the market.

Founded in 2000, Liv-ex has grown to serve a growing number of members in the B2B sector, with an ever-expanding range of services. We help our members and other stakeholders to better understand the fine wine market and identify profit opportunities.

Summary Purpose

We’re seeking a craft-led Visual and UI Designer to raise the aesthetic ceiling of our product and brand.

You will join a product team with strong UX foundations already in place. Your role is to complement that strength by owning the visual execution, UI quality, and overall design polish across our merchant-facing products and key brand touchpoints. From translating robust UX into high-fidelity interfaces, to ensuring our product, marketing, and investor materials feel cohesive and premium, this role is pivotal in how Liv-ex is perceived.

As our products evolve toward more AI-assisted and agentic workflows, you will ensure these experiences remain calm, premium, and highly controllable, using clear visual structure and elegant interaction states around the conversational layer.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role, focused less on discovery and more on taste, craft, and execution excellence.

Responsibilities:

• UI and Visual Excellence: Translate UX wireframes and interaction models into high-fidelity, production-ready UI that feels calm, intentional, and premium, even in dense, data-heavy contexts.
• Visual Hierarchy and Craft: Apply strong principles of layout, spacing, typography, colour, and rhythm to elevate the final 10% of product design where quality is truly perceived.
• Design System Stewardship: Work within an existing design system to raise its visual quality bar, extending components, variants, tokens, and motion/interaction states with discipline and consistency.
• Brand and Product Alignment: Act as a visual authority across Product and Marketing, ensuring a shared aesthetic language across software, decks, sales materials, and key marketing assets.
• Agentic UI Craft (visual-first): Design the visual surfaces that make agentic experiences feel premium and safe: action cards, review and approval states, confirmations, provenance displays, and elegant uncertainty and error states. This is not about building “a chat UI”, it is about making the system feel trustworthy and beautiful around the conversation.
• Premium Interaction States: Define and polish key states like loading, waiting, partial results, “agent is working”, and “needs your input”, ensuring these moments feel composed, not clunky.
• AI-Accelerated Design: Use AI tools to explore visual directions and accelerate iteration, applying judgment and taste to shape final outputs.

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience as a senior Visual Designer, UI Designer, or crafted Product Designer, with clear ownership of high-fidelity execution in B2B or data heavy products.
• Exceptional visual taste, with a strong internal compass for typography, grids, spacing, hierarchy, and restraint.
• UI-first mindset: Deep care for how interfaces look and feel once they are built, not just how they work in theory.
• B2B design maturity: Ability to make products feel premium, credible, and confident without relying on gimmicks or over illustration.
• Expert Figma skills, including components, variants, variables, and design tokens.
• Strong visual background, formal or portfolio led, in Visual Design, Graphic Design, or Visual Communication.
• Collaborative approach: Comfortable working alongside UX designers, engineers, and marketers without duplicating responsibilities.
• Experience designing complex, data heavy, or financial products.
• Familiarity with HTML/CSS or modern frontend frameworks.

Why Join Liv-ex

• High Impact: Directly shape how our products and brand are perceived by a global, professional audience.
• Clear Design Mandate: With strong UX in place, this role exists to own taste, polish, and visual authority.
• Cross Functional Influence: Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data/AI and Marketing to create a unified design language.
• Culture: A pragmatic, quality driven environment that values restraint, clarity, and craft over noise.

To apply, please send your CV with a cover letter detailing why you are interested in this role to [email protected]