Principal UX Designer
Marcura Remote (🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom)
The Principal UX Designer will own design quality across Martrust and set a high bar for design across customer-facing and internal experiences. They will work closely with product and engineering teams to shape strategy and ensure research is integrated into the design process.
Responsibilities
- Own design quality across Martrust
- Set and maintain a high bar for design across customer-facing and internal experiences
- Set direction, not just solutions
- Help teams understand the problems they’re solving and guide them toward clear, coherent outcomes
- Work closely with product and engineering
- Partner with PMs and engineers to shape strategy, prioritisation, and delivery — balancing usability, risk, and scale
- Support and develop the design and research team
- Support growth, performance, and progression through regular feedback, coaching, and clear expectations
- Embed research into how teams work
- Ensure research is planned early, focused on real decisions, and shared in ways teams can act on
- Create alignment through design
- Use design principles, patterns, and shared understanding to reduce fragmentation and rework
- Balance craft and leverage
- Stay close to important work while helping design and research scale through patterns, principles, and good process
- Champion accessibility and clarity
- Ensure experiences are inclusive, understandable, and work for users in real-world conditions
- Improve how design works
- Help evolve processes, tools, and rituals so design is effective, lightweight, and well integrated into delivery
Requirements
- Formal education in design, human–computer interaction, psychology, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience
- Ongoing learning in user-centred design, accessibility, and inclusive design practices
- An accomplished design leader with a portfolio of high quality design work that demonstrates your ability to craft high impact products
- Significant experience designing and shipping digital products in complex or regulated environments
- Experience working across multiple product teams, influencing direction without relying on hierarchy
- Proven experience leading design for large, interconnected product surfaces or platforms
- Experience line managing designers and supporting their growth and progression
- Experience collaborating closely with product management, engineering, and research
- Deep hands-on research capability — from framing the right questions to delivering insights that directly shape product bets and company strategy
Key Skills
- Design leadership
- User-centred design
- Research leadership
- Interaction design
- Service design
- Systems thinking
- Accessibility
- Usability
- Consistency at scale
- Collaboration & communication
- People leadership
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Feedback
- Prioritization
- Time management
- Adaptability
- Continuous learning
Benefits
- Competitive Salary and Bonus
- Flexible, Remote-First Culture
- Inclusive Onboarding Experience
- Marcura Wellness Zone
- Global Opportunities
- Monthly Performance Support
- Diverse, Supportive Work Culture
About Marcura
Marcura is maritime's operational infrastructure. We simplify maritime's operational complexity, turning fragmented, manual processes into structured intelligence and helping skilled professionals protect margins, reduce risk, and move faster than the market Our connected ecosystem brings together market-leading solutions, each a specialist in its field: DA-Desk for disbursement accounts, MarTrust for crew and vendor payments, ShipServ for maritime procurement, VesselMan for dry-docking and technical projects, PortLog for port intelligence, plus Marcura Claims and Marcura Compliance. Together, they work as one operational backbone. Our Service-as-Software model combines AI automation with the human expertise 1,000+ maritime specialists. Technology handles the volume; specialists handle the exceptions software can't. Operating at scale means every improvement compounds across 950+ shipping companies. We process over $17 billion in crew and vendor payments annually, and followi
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