Senior UX Designer - Holborn London

Senior UX Designer – Holborn London

Currently, our London based design and innovation centre is looking for a lead UX designer to join the design team and work alongside other designers, researchers, product owners, and technologists in defining and developing digital products and platforms.

The role will involve initiating and managing projects and leading the team forward in daily design tasks, which include conducting workshops, user testing, and prototyping.

Key Responsibilities

1. Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to derive personas, use cases, concepts, user journeys, and information architecture.
2. Create prototypes based on high-level business, functional, and technical requirements.
3. Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to ensure the best creative solutions are realized, implemented, and delivered.
4. Work alongside business analysts to complement user stories with design output.
5. Work closely with the Project Manager and the team to ensure sprint expectations are being respected and backlog defined.
6. Keep abreast of the latest practices, techniques, and emerging technologies within the industry and employ these to develop ideas and inspire creative concepts.
7. Act as a design and UX advocate internally and externally.
8. Work directly with the client on project scope and expectations.

Experience

1. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
2. UX designer with over 3 years of work experience working for respected clients as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
3. Understanding of the UX processes.
4. Experience in interface design for desktop, tablet, and enterprise software design.
5. Experience of working in an Agile environment is desired.
6. Experience of working to strict deadlines.
7. Proven design track record.
8. Experience in designing user flows, wireframes, and implementation instructions.
9. Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
10. Portfolio of UX and design work.

Skills

1. World-class UX/interface design.
2. Strong proof of concept, rapid prototyping, storyboarding, and technical skills.
3. Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
4. Excellent presentation skills.
5. Ability to quickly turn around detailed wireframes and mock-ups in an iterative environment.
6. Proficiency in Sketch, Axure, Adobe CS, etc.
7. An understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other key web technologies.

The position will be based in Holborn London.

The salary for this role will be in the range £50K - £60K + Benefits.

Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.