Midweight UX Designer

Salary £400000 - £480000 per annum + Bonus & Bens
Job type Permanent
Reference BBBH11462_1603209393

An exciting opportunity to work within a world leading agency.

This UX team sets out to do things differently - taking a unique approach, balancing research and insight backed human-centred design with an agile capability to tackle complex problems in original ways.

You will be reporting into the Group Head of UX.

You will champion the continued development of a world class team of UX and UI designers. You will be assisting in the design of consumer led experiences across clients websites. As a champion for UX quality you will provide feedback at key development reviews and provide direct assistance to teams where required. You will be a key partner to the business to ensure that the Client team have the tools they need to achieve the highest levels of experience and subsequent sales on ecommerce.

With a great variety of potential projects in the portfolio, there are many different areas to investigate, so you'll certainly not be bored!

We're looking for a UX designer who has a passion for e-Comm and wants to quickly develop their career and experience.

The ideal candidate is a passionate champion of UX and is hungry to be part of the continued excellence of the agencies output,

The candidate must be highly independent and confident in their abilities to navigate a fluid project landscape. You will have an ability to synthesise complex usability challenges into intuitive design.

Responsibilities & deliverables:

  • The UX Designer will interface with key stakeholders, including clients, management, and architecture, to iteratively refine and improve designs to create the most appropriate possible user experience. Additionally, the UX Designer will interface with the development team throughout the development cycle to provide guidance on implementation of the designs and modify designs as requirements change.

  • The ability to understand client needs and rapidly develop and propose practical yet innovative solutions is central to this role, as is the ability to work alongside business and bid owners.
  • Produce deliverables such as, Wireframes, UX flows, Screen designs and prototype(s).

  • Experience of Sketch, Miro, InVision (or equivalents) expected.

  • Develop and run prototype testing sessions; A-B testing of design components and flows, information hierarchy validation e.g. card sorting

  • Ability to translate, hand-off to, and work closely with technical/development teams

  • Update personas, site maps, user journeys and high level screen designs (sketches/wireframes)

  • Use and help evolve the UX design language, components, grid structures, icons, interactions

General abilities:

  • Appreciate the impact of incremental and disruptive digital solutions on ways of working and the greater business
  • Have up-to- date knowledge of the latest UX, UI and technology trends

  • Have an understanding of the implications of potential solutions across both UX and UI and live environments

  • Any experience with deciphering data-analytics would be desirable but not mandator

The successful candidate will be able to thrive in an Agile development environment, demonstrating ability to manage both time and scope to fit tasks into quick development iterations.