Senior UI Designer

Luminary is seeking an experienced Senior UI Designer for a 9-month parental leave cover (with potential for extension) to help us transform digital landscapes. We need a strategic thinker who can navigate agile sprints, build robust design systems, and present bold ideas to clients with confidence. If you have 6+ years of experience and a portfolio that showcases meticulous attention to detail and WCAG-compliant design, this is an opportunity to join one of Australia’s Top 20 workplaces and lead high-impact projects from Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane.

The Senior UI Designer Role can be based in either Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.

This is a parental leave cover position and is a full-time fixed-term contract position for 9 months with the potential to extend to 12. 

Luminary is committed to being the agency of choice for the brightest minds in digital. When people join us, they’re generally here for the long term. Here are a few reasons why…

• We aren’t just building websites - we’re creating Human Experiences. As a certified B Corp, we balance profit with purpose, ensuring our impact on our team, our community, and the environment is a positive one. We have been externally recognised as one of Australia’s Top 20 workplaces under 100 employees in the Best Places to Work study.
• Our focus is on looking after our people so they can focus on producing high-quality work. We maintain a highly flexible work from home policy that requires office attendance only one day a week which enables you to work from an environment where you can be at your best.

• We hire experts and treat them as such. You’ll have the autonomy to own your role and the support to grow within it.
• We pride ourselves on being more than just an agency. For over two decades, our data-driven approach has underpinned the online success of some of Australia’s most well-known brands. You’ll be working alongside some of the industry’s most seasoned professionals on complex, large-scale projects that actually move the needle.

We are looking for a talented, experienced UI designer to join Luminary for a 9 month parental leave contract with the potential to extend to 12 months.

Luminary specialises in digital transformations, from researching user behaviour to the continual optimisation of the new experiences. Design is central to this offering to visually create a best-in-class experience that meets the needs of users and aligns with client objectives. We need someone to join the team who is passionate about their craft, an excellent presenter of work and can connect into our agency processes and shape the way we collaborate with our teams. 

• Creating design systems: Building and maintaining scalable design systems using a component-based approach.
• Advocating for accessibility: Designing with the WCAG guidelines in mind to ensure experiences are inclusive for users with visual, auditory, cognitive, or physical differences.
• Design for responsive & mobile-first: Executing designs that adapt seamlessly across a variety of devices, screen sizes, and orientations.
• Digital branding: Consulting on brand guidelines and extending them sustainably into digital interfaces.
• Design QA: "Sweating the details" by reviewing features during the development sprint to ensure the final build matches the intended design.

• Integrated research: Translating insights from user behaviour research into visual executions that meet both user needs and client objectives.
• Agile & design thinking: Working within iterative sprints and a design thinking framework to refine and test concepts
• Multidisciplinary collaboration: Maintaining constant collaboration with strategy, UX, content, and technical teams
• Client facing: Facilitating frequent touchpoints to keep the client central to every part of the design process.
• Feedback culture: Promoting a culture of curiosity and actively participating in ongoing feedback loops.
• Strategic decision-making: Balancing the "desirable" for the user with the "viable" for the client to ensure a high return on design investment.

We are looking for someone with:

• 6+ years' experience working in a digital design position, preferably as a UI Designer
• A portfolio that showcases sophisticated aesthetics and meticulous attention to detail
• Strong practical experience working with market-leading UI design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite etc.
• Strong practical experience creating and maintaining design system frameworks, accessibility standards and design principles
• Strong storytelling and presentation techniques from workshop facilitation to narrative-driven prototyping
• Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Strong practical experience supporting development teams and also an understanding of the latest front-end development standards
• Experience working with market-leading DXPs and CMSs
• A collaborative spirit that thrives in fast-paced, cross-functional environments

Luminary receives a high volume of applications. We know everyone hates writing a cover letter but we have asked for this so you can tell us about yourself in a way you can’t in your CV. It’s not compulsory this time so you can opt to do this or not but we would like to hear more about your favourite examples of great design. Using AI to assist you to complete this is fine, but ensure that you make the letter your own.

We also need a link to your portfolio so please include this on your CV when applying. 

One of Luminary's core values is People and we are committed to developing a workforce that embraces all aspects of diversity and work hard to ensure we’re a welcoming organisation that prioritises equality, inclusion and a sense of belonging for all our staff. We take pride in our acceptance of the unusual and are deliberate and reflective about our culture and seek employees we believe will embrace an empathetic, caring and supportive environment. Diversity comes in many forms, and we know that having many points of view, experiences and ideas are key to us being a successful organisation. We encourage applications from First Nations peoples, people with disabilities, and from people of all ages and backgrounds.