UI Designer / Developer
full-time•Oxford•£45k - £50k
About this role
Join us at EIT:
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we’re on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs to tackle humanity’s greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
This is ambitious work - work that demands curiosity, courage, and a relentless drive to make a difference. At EIT, you’ll join a community built on excellence, innovation, tenacity, trust, and collaboration, where bold ideas become real-world breakthroughs. Together, we push boundaries, embrace complexity, and create solutions to scale ideas from lab to society. Explore more at www.eit.org.
Your Role:
At EIT we are seeking an experienced UI Designer/Developer with Webflow experience to join our growing central communications team. Reporting to the Websites, Platforms and UX Lead, you will form a key part of delivering EIT’s external digital presence, building web pages and cohesive online experiences for a number EIT sub brands and external audiences.
Your Responsibilities:
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code by using best software development practices
- Create responsive website layouts and user interfaces by using Webflow, and where applicable standard HTML/CSS practices
- Integrate data from various back-end services and databases
- Support the Digital Experience team with specifications and requirements based on technical needs
- Create and maintain software documentation
- Engage with emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Demonstrable experience in a UI / Front-End / Web Designer Developer role within a start-up, scale up or tech first environment.
- Webflow
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Figma
- Front end code repo experience
- SEO optimisation experience
- Strong understanding of development approaches and methods
- Ability to translate design documents into responsive designs
- Website optimisation experience
- Strong collaboration skills
- Effective communication
- Ability to explore new technical solutions as challenges emerge
- Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams, agencies and suppliers (designers, developers, product and communications)
- Ability to demonstrate previous experience through portfolio of works (please include your link within your application)
- Organised and reliable.
Desirable Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Prior experience running UX or UCD workshops with stakeholders or users
- Experience building non-traditional web experiences outside of standard desktop environments.
- Exposure to mixed-media or creative coding approaches.
- Experience contributing to early stage digital platforms or greenfield products.
Our Benefits:
- Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 (dependent on experience) + travel allowance + bonus
- Enhanced holiday pay
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance
- Hospital Cash Plan
- Therapy Services
- Perk Box
- Electric Car Scheme
Working Together – What It Involves:
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary.
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate) and can commit to being on site 3 days per working week.
What you'll do
- The UI Designer/Developer will be responsible for delivering EIT’s external digital presence by building web pages and cohesive online experiences. They will also write efficient code, create responsive layouts, and integrate data from various back-end services.
About Ellison Institute of Technology
Led by a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, policy makers, economists and entrepreneurs, the Ellison Institute of Technology aims to deliver scaled solutions to humanity's important problems.
By breaking down the silos between science, research, industry and policy, we are reimagining the path from scientific discovery to applied solutions for the benefit of society.
Set for completion in 2027, the EIT Campus in Littlemore will include more than 300,000 sq ft of research laboratories, educational and gathering spaces.
Fuelled by growing ambition and the strength of Oxford’s science ecosystem, EIT is now expanding its footprint to a 2 million sq ft Campus across the western part of The Oxford Science Park.
Designed by Foster + Partners led by Lord Norman Foster, this will become a transformative workplace for up to 7,000 people, with autonomous laboratories, purpose-built laboratories including a plant sciences building and dynamic spaces to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
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