UX Designer - Learning Experience

UX Designer – Learning Experience (LX) Lead
Location: Dartford (with flexibility to travel to project sites)

Laing O'Rourke is hiring a UX Designer to re-imagine our digital learning ecosystem, weaving human-centred design, storytelling and emerging tech into experiences that make growth irresistible for every employee.

Shape the Future of Learning at Laing O'Rourke

This is your opportunity to combine UX expertise, visual storytelling, and digital campaign design to create impactful learning experiences across the business.

About the Role

As a UX Designer, you'll lead the design and optimisation of intuitive, inclusive, and engaging digital learning journeys. You'll work across teams to bring learning to life—balancing creativity with user insight to drive performance and engagement.

You'll also contribute to internal campaigns that embed a culture of continuous development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design user-centric digital learning experiences with a focus on accessibility, usability, and engagement.
• Translate insights into UI designs, wireframes, and prototypes that bring learning content and platforms to life.
• Lead creative campaigns that promote learning initiatives through storytelling and branding.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business—SMEs, instructional designers, and developers—to align solutions to user needs.
• Conduct user research and testing to inform and refine your designs.
• Turn data into compelling narratives that shape our learning strategy and ecosystem.

What You'll Bring

• Strong portfolio showcasing UX, UI, and visual design work.
• Proficiency with tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Miro.
• Experience delivering creative digital campaigns with measurable results.
• Ability to run workshops, capture user insights, and work collaboratively.
• Interest in learning platforms (e.g., LMS), employee engagement tools, or digital education.

Bonus if you have:

• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or responsive design.
• Skills in motion design, video, or illustration.
• Understanding of inclusive and accessible design principles.

Why Join Us?

• Impact: Help thousands of people learn and grow across a global organisation.
• Creative autonomy: Own and shape the user experience of new initiatives.
• Growth: Access training, mentorship, and hands-on learning.
• Collaboration: Join a forward-thinking team of designers, technologists, and L&D experts.
• Innovation: Be part of transforming learning through human-centred design.

Eligibility

• Must have or be able to obtain the right to work in the UK
• Willing to travel as required
• Degree qualified (2:2 or higher) in UX Design, Digital Media, HCI, Psychology, Communication or a related field. We will also consider work related experience or similar qualifications.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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