Junior UX Designer

A bright and highly creative individual with a passion for visual design, who can quickly interpret briefs and manage demanding and changing deadlines to a high standard. You will bring energy and a great attitude to a variety of projects. You're skilled with software like Sketch, Adobe CS, Figma etc.

Main Purpose of the Role:

The Junior UX Designer is responsible for helping to conceptualise and design beautiful, usable and engaging experiences. They have a great understanding of UX principles and are able to support the Senior UX Designer to successfully translate the business needs into impeccable user-centred experiences. They are able to support the UI team in times of need.

They will be working with some of the world's leading luxury brands to bring their voice to life through engaging experiences and innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Be a key part of the design team working under the supervision of the Senior UX Designer and Associate Creative Director.
2. Support the Senior UX Designers to help drive thoughtful design decisions and to bring user journeys to life including personas, sitemaps, sketches, process flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
3. Support and facilitate discovery and creative workshops with key stakeholders.
4. Work with members of the analytics team to understand user trends and insights.
5. Conduct latest trends and best-in-class research.
6. Conduct Heuristic Analysis to highlight usability problems.
7. Conduct competitor research to better understand prevalent interaction designs/solutions.

Skills/Requirements

Skills

1. Willing to take initiative and ownership of tasks and deliverables.
2. Organised, efficient and accurate.
3. Able to prioritise, work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
4. Happy to receive constructive criticism to ultimately improve the end result.
5. Strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed when needed.
6. Fair understanding of data science tools to deliver insight-driven recommendations.

Requirements

1. UX portfolio of user-centred design case studies.
2. Experience in working with a mix of digital platforms and for an array of different industries.
3. Minimum 1/2 years Agency experience.

Key Contacts:
External Key clients, brand Partners

Technical skills / software
Must-Have

1. Fluency in industry software including Sketch, Adobe CS, InVision, DSM.
2. Knowledge of A/B testing platforms, Hotjar/UXCam and similar, Google Analytics for data-driven design.

Nice to Have

1. Experience designing for leading eCommerce platforms such as Magento 2, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Salesforce.
2. Experience with Harvest and Asana.
3. Microsoft PowerPoint.

Personal Skills

1. Great attention to detail.
2. Proactive.
3. Professional.
4. Commercially Creative.
5. Team player.
6. Commercially aware.
7. Ability to fulfil tasks quickly and efficiently.