Senior UX Designer

Location: Basingstoke or London (Hybrid – 2 days in office)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £53,460 – £64,150

Hi, I’m Howard Gadsby, Head of UX at Hawk-Eye Innovations. We’re looking for a Senior UX Designer to help shape the future of sports technology.

If you’re passionate about designing intuitive experiences, enjoy tackling complex challenges, and want to play a key role in growing a UX function inside a fast-moving, global business — this could be the role for you.

You’ll work closely with me and the wider UX team to design best-in-class software that underpins our services worldwide. Alongside hands-on design, you’ll help drive UX maturity, improve processes, and mentor others in the team.

Your day-to-day could include:

• Improving DesignOps processes and ways of working with product squads and wider teams

• Training, upskilling, and championing UX across product, engineering, and operations

• Helping plan team workload across multiple product streams, identifying common goals and patterns

• Leading regular UX team meetings and defining usability benchmarks

• Planning, contributing to, and maintaining our design component library

• Mentoring UX designers and researchers, while evangelising user needs across the business

On projects, you’ll be:

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary team with stakeholders, product, operations, and developers

• Partnering with UX researchers to understand user needs, behaviours, and pain points

• Navigating ambiguous problems, uncovering user requirements, and defining clear project pathways

• Mapping user journeys, understanding complex workflows, and prototyping solutions

• Presenting design concepts to stakeholders and gathering feedback

• Running usability tests with the support of researchers

• Working with developers to bring designs to life

• Prioritising workload in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment

Essential:

• 5+ years’ commercial experience in UX, product, or interaction design

• A portfolio showing user-centred design for complex desktop/web apps (not just mobile)

• Strong track record of navigating ambiguity and multi-faceted product conversations

• Experience running usability tests and applying insights

• High attention to detail in diagramming, prototyping, and presenting

• Analytical mindset with problem-solving and multitasking ability

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• Familiarity with Figma and usability testing tools

• Understanding of front-end technologies and implementation considerations

Nice to have:

• Experience in sport, broadcasting, or live event software

• Knowledge of DesignOps practices and UX maturity models

• Fluency in an additional language

• 25 days’ annual leave + 8 public holidays

• Enhanced pension (5% matching)

• Hybrid working (2 days in-office)

• Complimentary Unmind app for mental health support

• Onsite gym at Basingstoke HQ

• Sony Group discounts

• Annual leave per local labour law

• Hybrid working (2 days in office)

• Sony Group perks – discounted tickets & events

• Cafeteria options (SZÉP Card, nursery/kindergarten support, MOL Bubi Pass)

• Private medical, life & accident insurance + dental discounts

• Seniority awards & Employee Assistance Program

• “All You Can Move” pass option

Hawk-Eye Innovations, a Sony company, is a world leader in sports technology. We deliver sophisticated officiating, broadcast, and player tracking solutions across more than 25 international sports. Each year, our technology supports over 30,000 events in 500+ stadiums across 90 countries.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and ensure fair treatment regardless of race, gender, disability, religion, or any other protected status.

Apply today to bring your passion for UX and innovation to Hawk-Eye, and help redefine how sport is experienced, analysed, and enjoyed..