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UX Designer

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UX Designer

Basingstoke or fully Remote

£50,000

The UX Designer role will take customer and user driven ideas and research and turn them into a compelling and meaningful user experience that helps people better connect and work with our software platforms across fixed and mobile applications. The role will work in 2 ways: within small teams to rapidly prototype and demonstrate compelling customer experiences and with larger cross functional workstreams to define, design, and build a product and bring it to market. You must be mission-driven, creative, and moving fast to succeed at your job in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

  • Design end-to-end user experiences and interactions that are intuitive, efficient, and productive.
  • Define, craft, and evolve experience designs within visual systems.
  • Brainstorm and rapidly prototype concepts, specify designs according to use cases and iterate designs based on feedback, research, and learnings.
  • Cultivate a healthy design process for the team as it grows that includes software, but also hardware and industrial design experience.
  • Regularly conduct research to understand user patterns, needs and required design changes.
  • Participate in software design sprints to ensure all details of interaction design are delivered to experience specifications that you create.
  • Contribute to product management and engineering work streams to instil best practices in user interaction and experience design throughout a customer's journey.
  • Contribute to strategic decisions around product definitions and roadmaps.
  • Be an advocate of customers throughout design and development of products.
  • Stays informed and keep UX knowledge relevant to market trends, research and applicable insights
  • To ensure full participation in the performance development review (PDR) process and maintain an up to date record of all training and development activities/programs.
  • To always act and behave in a way compliant with all company guidelines and policies, especially those relating to values and behaviours, environmental health and safety, ethics and codes of conduct, as it is through living our values that we strengthen the culture of our business, and demonstrate our understanding of our Code of Business Principles.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's or equivalent degree, in UX Design, HCI or related field, or equivalent professional experience in the design field.
  • 7+ years of experience as UX designers in interaction with enterprise solutions
  • A portfolio that demonstrates strong experience in creating concepts and detailing customer journey, ideally specifying interactions for hardware and software services for enterprise products.
  • Extensive experience in working with engineers and leading complex discussions in UX design.
  • Ability to use design methods to generate ideas and galvanize point-of-view with stakeholders, demonstration of UX and visual design sensibilities.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organisation.
  • Strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and meet tight deadlines
  • Strong problem solver: comfortable in addressing unknowns in user experience, product experience, and market best practices.

If you have the relevant skills send your CV to lesleymorgan@spectrumit.co.uk