Digital Design Developer

Summary

Join UNiDAYS as a Digital Design Developer and bring our digital communications to life! This role blends technical skills in HTML/CSS with a keen eye for design and user experience. You will collaborate with designers, copywriters, marketers, and CRM strategists to create engaging email campaigns and contribute to our email design system. Responsibilities also include supporting in-app messaging and other digital touchpoints. This role supports our partner and member campaign roadmap across multiple channels. The position offers remote work flexibility within the UK with occasional travel to London or Nottingham campuses. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and a fun, social work environment.

Requirements

• Design or email development role
• Experience designing digital platforms such as web, app, email, or digital campaigns
• Can demonstrate an ability to design and hand-code responsive HTML emails
• Experience using ESPs (e.g. Bloomreach, Adestra) to build and test campaigns
• Familiar with A/B testing, segmentation, and personalisation workflows
• Experience coding for dark mode compatibility and mobile-first layouts
• Built or modified Bloomreach components, including email templates, web layers, and in-app messages
• Collaborated with CRM or Engineering teams to set up personalised journeys using real-time product feeds and recommendations
• Experience designing for and implementing recommendation modules, trending product features, and personalised content via Payload or Bloomreach integrations
• Worked with Designers, Marketers, and Developers to launch campaigns
• Proficient understanding of data integrations, web layers, and dynamic content
• Comfortable building or modifying modular, responsive templates and testing across devices and clients
• Familiarity with QA and rendering tools such as Litmus or Email on Acid
• Understanding of segmentation, personalisation, and lifecycle-triggered campaigns
• Proficient in Adobe CC (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects)
• Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and email coding best practices
• Proficient in Figma
• Proficient in Google Workspace
• Understanding of marketing automation concepts and tools, especially within Bloomreach (campaign journeys, web layers, in-app, and recommendation logic)
• Familiarity with CMS or headless CMS integration (e.g. Payload)

Responsibilities

• Develop responsive HTML emails and other on-network assets (e.g. in-app messages, web layers, newsletters) from Figma files, ensuring optimisation for dark mode, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, and cross-client rendering
• Code, test, and troubleshoot campaigns to ensure performance, accessibility, and deliverability
• Build, QA, and manage email campaigns within Bloomreach
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure accurate segmentation, personalisation, and campaign targeting
• Generate high-quality creative ideas for campaigns and support concept development
• Contribute to the ideation, design, and rollout of campaign assets
• Apply accessibility principles and semantic HTML to support inclusive design
• Design and build modular, updateable templates within Bloomreach and Payload, with consideration for ongoing campaign flexibility
• Implement, test, and iterate on A/B variants of emails and in-app experiences to drive engagement
• Collaborate with CRM and marketing automation teams to ensure accurate tagging, recommendation logic, and tracking for campaign components
• Monitor campaign performance data and insights, and contribute to continuous improvement strategies
• Maintain organised file structures and version control across shared platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• JavaScript understanding and experience with Webflow, Payload, Jinja, version control (Git), or ESP APIs
• Familiar with email building platforms (e.g. Bloomreach, Adestra, Iterable)
• Experience with templating languages like Jinja for dynamic content
• Comfortable collaborating with developers on API or CMS content feeds and dynamic logic

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year increasing with length of service, plus flexible bank holidays
• Competitive salaries
• 4pm finishes every Friday
• Company bonus scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Private health insurance (Vitality)
• Income protection policy
• Life assurance policy
• Employee Assistance Program
• Enhanced parental leave pay
• Core hours with flexibility around how/when you manage your time
• Regular team building activities
• The latest tech and hardware will be supplied from day one
• Good Vibes Program: we know we’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working and UNiDAYS has always taken pride in the community we’ve created in the office but we’re just as committed to creating an innovative approach to fostering connections and improving engagement outside of the office! We want to boost your remote working experience so think virtual parties, pottery classes, wellness classes and guest speakers just to name a few!
• Support for home working for all new team members. We will help assess your home set up and you can expense £150 towards any additional furniture you may need to be safe and comfortable when working from home