Description
Role - Senior UX Designer
Location - London
Duration - 6 months
Job Profile Summary
Plays a lead role in the integration & pragmatic application of design in a multidisciplinary team of designers, product owners and engineers.
Champions design and helps change mind-sets about problem solving.
Helps others succeed through coaching and by sharing knowledge, being an active member of the Design community.
What are the specific activities I would be responsible for?
You'll have a range of activities, partially influenced by your past experience but the following could fall (not all of them!) into your remit:
- Understand the user goals, mind-set and the context for use
- Understand and map out intuitive steps in processes, eg user flows
- Structure information delivery throughout the journey, defining page types, design goals, etc.
- Create consistent design and interaction techniques across channels, eg component design
- Proactively design with the customer's needs in mind
- Meets the needs of significant customers related to complex, often customised products and services and/or manages a customer advisor department over a significant area.
- Takes responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.
- Initiates, formulates and implements new business practices for own discipline, while managing the development and/or delivery of a significant element of the organisation's change management programme
- Manages output delivery for a substantial operational department by leading others.
- Builds complex frameworks to fully assess the scope and context of short-term and long-term business needs.
- Manages the definition, development, and/or delivery of a significant product or service of the organisation's development/engineering programme and offers to ensure alignment with customer requirements, and/or manages a medium-size product development/specialist team.
What we would like to see from our applicants?
We like people who come from diverse industry and sector backgrounds, but as a minimum to be seriously considered will need to see evidence of:
- Proven & demonstrable background at a senior level experience in UX design for large scale projects
- Advanced skills in: wireframing, journey mapping, prototyping, sketching
- Experience of leading and supporting user research activities
- Proficiency with industry standard design & business tools such as; Axure, inVision, Figma, Adobe CC, UserZoom, MS Office
- The ability to manage key stakeholders in the business who come from digital and non-digital backgrounds
*Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.
- Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.
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