Marketing Lead

Media & Digital publishing company

We’re hiring a Senior Digital Marketing Lead on a contract basis to support a global media and digital publishing brand. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on performance marketing, combining strategic oversight with delivery — driving improvements across paid media, CRM and channel performance through data-led decision making.

The Company

We’re partnered with a leading global media and digital publishing organisation with a large and highly engaged digital audience. Their platforms span content, subscription and commerce experiences, with a strong focus on driving growth through digital channels. They are continuing to invest in performance marketing, with an emphasis on efficiency, scalability and long-term audience growth.

The Role

This is a 3-month contract for a Senior Digital Marketing Lead to drive performance and provide direction across digital marketing channels. You’ll take ownership of paid media strategy and execution across platforms such as Google Ads and Meta, while also overseeing CRM, email strategy and customer segmentation.

Alongside hands-on delivery, you’ll lead and coach a team, bringing structure and clarity to how campaigns are planned and executed. The role is focused on improving performance, aligning activity to revenue goals, and ensuring a strong, consistent brand presence across channels.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, using data and insights to guide decisions and identify opportunities to optimise and scale activity.

What you’ll be doing
-Leading and coaching a team across marketing and editorial
-Owning paid media performance across Google Ads and Meta
-Managing budgets, channel strategy and campaign optimisation
-Driving performance against KPIs such as CPA, CTR and conversion rate
-Using data and insights to inform strategy and decision-making
-Overseeing CRM, email strategy, segmentation and automation
-Establishing clear processes and ways of working to improve delivery
-Partnering with senior stakeholders across revenue and marketing teams

What they’re looking for
-Strong experience leading digital marketing and performance teams
-Deep hands-on expertise across paid media and campaign optimisation
-Proven track record of improving efficiency and scaling performance
-Strong analytical skills with confidence using performance data
-Experience across CRM, email marketing and lifecycle strategy
-Ability to prioritise and deliver in fast-paced environments
-Confident stakeholder management and communication skills

Contract Details

£430 per day (Inside IR35)
3-month contract - May-July
Hybrid – 4 days per week onsite (Adelphi)
Start date: ASAP

Contract

London

£430

Digital Marketing Manager

Media & Digital publishing company

We’re hiring a Digital Marketing Manager on a contract basis to support a global media and digital publishing brand. This is a hands-on role focused on performance marketing — driving improvements across paid media channels through testing, optimisation and data-led decision making. You’ll take ownership of campaigns across platforms like Google Ads and Meta, with a strong focus on delivering measurable results.

The Company

We’re partnered with a leading global media and digital publishing organisation with a large and highly engaged digital audience. Their platforms span content, subscription and commerce experiences, with a strong focus on driving growth through digital channels. They are continuing to invest in performance marketing, with a focus on improving efficiency, scaling campaigns and optimising user acquisition.

The Role

This is a 2-month contract for a Digital Marketing Manager to support performance marketing across key digital channels. You’ll take ownership of auditing, planning and optimising campaigns, working across platforms such as Google Ads and Meta. The role is focused on improving performance through structured testing, audience targeting and ongoing optimisation. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, using data and insights to guide decisions and continuously improve campaign effectiveness.

What you’ll be doing

Auditing and optimising paid media performance across key channels
Planning, launching and managing campaigns across Google Ads and Meta
Managing budgets, audience targeting and creative testing
Driving performance against KPIs such as CPA, CTR and conversion rate
Running A/B testing across creatives, audiences and landing pages
Turning performance data into clear, actionable insights
Collaborating with stakeholders across marketing and product teams

What they’re looking for

Strong hands-on experience across paid media and performance marketing
Proven track record of improving and scaling campaign performance
Confident working with analytics tools and performance data
Experience running structured A/B testing across campaigns
Ability to prioritise and deliver in a fast-paced environment
Comfortable working with CRM, CMS and marketing tools
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

Contract Details

£300 per day (Inside IR35)
2-month contract
Hybrid - 4 days per week onsite in Waterloo
Start date: ASAP

Contract

London

£300

Lead Data Engineer

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Contract

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£450

Head of Product Design

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A senior design leadership role owning a global publishing and media platform used by millions of users and thousands of editors.

This role sits at the core of how content moves from idea to live, shaping both the tooling behind the scenes and the end user experience across multiple brands.

It’s a balance of platform thinking, front end experience, and team leadership, with real scope to define how multi-brand systems evolve.

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£65000

Senior Product Designer

Fintech

Senior Product Designer, Fintech, £550–£650, Inside IR35, London

Looking for a Senior Product Designer for a 3 month contract working on an investment product within a well known fintech.

Ideally 2 days a week in a London office.

You’ll need:
• Strong end to end product design experience, from discovery through to delivery
• B2C product experience, ideally within fintech or financial services
• Native app and web experience
• A clean, well crafted portfolio that shows both thinking and execution

Working closely with Product and Engineering to shape and deliver customer facing journeys across a complex, regulated space.

£550–£650 per day, Inside IR35, 3 months initially.

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Contract

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£600

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A chance to play a key role within a fast-growing, digital-first consumer platform operating within the online gambling space.

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£40,000 - £60,000

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A short term contract role focused on building and scaling a web design system, with a strong emphasis on design tokens, theming and scalable component and template structures. The work will focus on creating a token based system, supporting multiple brand themes and building reusable page templates to support new partners and web experiences.

Contract

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£450 - £550

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A contract role focused on improving and restructuring an existing design system and Figma component libraries. The role is centred around system architecture, component structure, library organisation and improving how the design system supports both designers and engineers. You’ll work closely with design and engineering teams to implement improvements, clean up and reorganise Figma files, and help make the design system more scalable, maintainable and easier for teams to use.

Contract

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£550 - £650

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You’ll work closely with product and engineering in a small, fast moving team, focusing on learning, testing and shaping new opportunities rather than delivering polished features for an existing product area.

Contract

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£550 - £650

Senior Product Designer (Platform & Global Experience)

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A senior product design role focused on shaping the core platform and global experience of a large digital product. The role centres on navigation, information architecture, shared patterns and cross-product journeys, ensuring the product feels coherent and easy to use as it grows. You’ll work closely with product, engineering and design teams to set direction, reduce fragmentation across the product and help define how the overall platform experience evolves over time.

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£75,000 - £90,000

Senior Product Designer

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Hands-on design lead, responsible for both execution and direction, working for a premium consumer brand

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£100,000 - £120,000

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You’ll lead design across key areas of the product, working closely with product, engineering and commercial teams to shape what gets built and how it’s brought to market. The role blends strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, with a strong emphasis on quality, pace and continuous improvement.

There is a clear opportunity to influence how design operates at a broader level, embedding more iterative ways of working, strengthening collaboration across teams and ensuring design plays a central role in both customer experience and commercial performance.

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£100,000 - £120,000

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Senior / Lead UX Designer

John Lewis Partnership

  • Location Remote
  • Salary £65,000 - £75,000
  • Type Permanent
  • Start Date ASAP
Ben Clarfelt

Or email Ben Clarfelt

ben@zebrapeople.com

Zebra People have been exclusively retained to support John Lewis & Partners on their vast hiring plans on what’s set to be one of the largest retail digital transformations in the UK at the moment.

If you’re an experienced Senior / Lead UX Designer and want to be a part of this then apply below.

The client

Extremely exciting time to join them as they undertake a new ‘Partnership Plan’ which will see the expansion of digital, virtual and delivery services to get close to customers, reaching a profit of £400m by year 5.

They have a pledge to recruit young people coming out of the care system and have major commitments on cutting waste and net-zero carbon.

Being a Partnership for positive change, JLP is improving lives and building a more sustainable future. John Lewis is now a 60% online retailer and Waitrose has upped its online capacity for delivery to over 190,000 weekly slots

The role

You are a skilled and experienced end-to-end Experience Designer, who has a track record of projects proving your focus on creating outstanding customer experiences. At John Lewis, we’re going beyond the conventions of UX to create truly omnichannel experiences for our customers.

You can demonstrate working from discovery stage to finished product using user-centred design methodologies at pace. You can plan, rationale and execute a clearly defined and intelligently thought-through process in order to identify and meet customer and business goals. Importantly, you can bring stakeholders on this journey. You’ve a great eye for detail, are able to communicate clearly and can translate ideas to stakeholders and team members alike. Importantly, you know when a sketch is sufficient and a high fidelity prototype is overkill. You have previous experience working in Agile and understand what is required to ‘work lean’ – working closely with your colleagues to iterate and learn quickly.

In the manager role, you’ll be supporting your Lead by helping oversee and mentor a small team –giving timely direction, support and honest feedback – whilst working with your manager on day-to-day team activities. These include pushing the boundaries of your team’s thinking and challenging positively to improve ways of working and performance. Responsibilities include helping the managers to nurture and evaluate your team’s personal development, assisting with recruitment and onboarding activities when required, whilst driving knowledge-sharing and experience design advocacy. Above all, you’ll be focused on making the thinking real, to deliver on customer, Partner and commercial objectives for the Partnership.

You’re a people-person who can work in agile, cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end products. You can inspire and motivate and get a kick out of bringing the team and stakeholders together to co-create greatness – exploring and defining what will delight the customer and achieve commercial success in equal measure. You’ll be a champion and ambassador for the customer experience for our digital and physical touchpoints across the entire business. Finally, your passion will be rewarded in the knowledge that you have driven the design of a compelling suite of propositions, services and experiences that will help grow long-term customer relationships. Through your Profession you will have the opportunity to develop and stretch personally and professionally to achieve your potential.

The Partnership supports agile and flexible working practices, such as when, where and how we work. We have several different ways to work flexibly, including part-time, flexible or compressed hours, and job sharing. Head office areas also support a blended working approach.

We celebrate diversity and inclusion in the John lewis Partnership and we are committed to becoming the UK’s most inclusive business, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we serve.

The candidate

Supporting your Experience Lead to look after the team and plan and carry out team-related activities

Leading a small team of Experience Designers working in agile, multi-disciplined teams whilst fulfilling your own team obligations

Helping drive design quality, consistency and great ways of working between teams through a regular feedback process with your reports and line manager as well as the wider Product team. Ensuring that the communication is constructive and helping to promote a positive culture through team empowerment (Partnership Principle One)

Pro-actively troubleshooting and problem-solving ongoing team issues under the guidance of the managers

Promoting a user-entered design approach and encouraging your team to do so via team-share sessions, presentations and activities. You will play a lead role in sharing and developing the Community of Practice sessions alongside your fellow Proposition, Experience, Service Design and Omnichannel UI Leads

Building and developing relationships with design peers and business stakeholders to influence all aspects of the customer experience

Within your Agile delivery team, collaborating closely and regularly with colleagues, especially omnichannel UI, Innovation and Experience Research to brainstorm and generate ideas

Adopting a hypothesis-driven test and learn approach, carefully choosing the most appropriate research methods to validate your assumptions using a healthy balance of qualitative and quantitative research

Planning and facilitating workshops to align stakeholders, establishing customer, business and project requirements to identify risks and dependencies: eg. Running Google Sprints, visioning sessions, persona development, empathy mapping, end-to-end customer journey mapping and service design blueprints (across digital and offline)

Gathering and analysing customer and business data to support decisions: this includes inventory creation, data analytics, MVT testing, usability testing (remote and lab), heuristic analysis, competitor reviews, ethnographic studies, card sorting and surveys

Using user-centred frameworks and techniques to guide how services and products are created including Value Proposition Design and Business Model Canvases, Lean UX Canvases and Jobs-To-Be-Done

Being a guardian and advocate of the design system; using the design kits, components and assets intelligently

Conducting diligent QA testing across browsers and devices to meet acceptance criteria

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