UI Designer / Developer

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.