Senior UX Designer - Newcastle
Job Description:
What you will get up to day to day
You will be working on a number of our UX and software development initiatives which will primarily involve:
- Taking a senior role in the creation of design assets during development such as personas, user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity designs
- Enhancing existing visual elements and usability of NBS products
- Helping to coordinate the work of other designers and ensuring it follows the UX process and meets with UX standards
- Pro-actively validating ideas, concepts and features with customers through regular user testing sessions
- Coaching other UX team members to improve their skills
- Helping promote a UX culture across our products with the aim of improving quality
- You will spend time coordinating work with Product Owners, Software Developers and Quality Assurance Testers.
- This role is important in enabling the company to deliver high quality, consistent and engaging user experiences across web, mobile and desktop software.
We are looking for someone who
- demonstrable commercial Web/Product design experience
- UX focused with a split UX/UI skillset
- Must have experience of:
- Using Figma to produce user journeys, wireframes and high-fidelity design visuals.
- DevOps/Jira/Other software development management tools
- Following an end-to-end design process which includes soliciting feedback and iterating on your own work.
- Desirable experience of:
- Working in an Agile environment
- User Research / Customer testing
- Stakeholder management
- Presenting work in a shared environment
- Working individually and as part of a UX team
- Working closely with development teams, specifically Front-end developers
Some of the key responsibilities
- Take ownership of UX design on features and components and coordinate work with other UX Designers ensuring it follows the UX process and meets team UX standards
- Contribute to UX design, UI design and research to produce the relevant design assets during development such as personas, user flows, wireframes, prototypes or hi-lo fidelity designs
- Take problem scenarios or conceptual ideas and turn them into elegant and valuable solutions whilst following UX standards and best practices.
- Contribute to the ongoing enhancements and maintenance of the UX Design System.
- Run and participate in Stakeholder and User workshops, research sessions and test sessions to gather data, validate suggestions, ideas, designs and prototypes.
- Give and solicit feedback from other designers in order to improve quality.
- Articulate design decisions and proposals to peers and stakeholders.
Our Values
- Dream big - Embrace ambitious goals and strive to exceed expectations, every day
- Thrive together - Collaborate, communicate and celebrate success
- Own it - Take ownership of your work and empower yourself to make a difference
- Do the right thing - Stand firm in your values and let integrity guide your actions at every turn
What you will get from NBS powered by Hubexo
The Basics:
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Leave - 25 days leave plus bank holidays
- Weekly Hours - 35 Hours per week for full-time roles
- Probationary Period - 6 months
- Pension - Competitive Group Pension Scheme
- Group Life Assurance - 4x Annual Salary
- Pay Day - 21st day of each month
- Sick Pay - Up to 6-months full pay (after 6+ years of service)
The Benefits:
- Annual Leave - Can Buy/Sell up to 5 days annual leave, and you're also able to carry over up to 5 days per year
- Birthday Day Off - An extra day to celebrate your birthday
- Festive Shopping Day - That's right - a half day off to help get that festive holiday shopping done
- Giving Back - 2-days per year to give back to your community through volunteering
- Private Medical Insurance - Employee contribution options at discounted rates
- Professional Fees - Professional Fees will be paid for by the company
- Learning and Development – We will support your personal professional development. Dedicated personal development allowance of 7 hours per month.
- Employee Assistance Programme - Help@Hand Cover to support your personal health and wellbeing. Unlimited counselling and mental health support
- Early retirement Scheme - You can apply for a 6-month phased retirement winddown
- Colleague Referral Scheme - Refer a colleague and if they're successful, get £1000
- Long Service Milestones - We invest in your commitment - regular milestone payments to celebrate your time with us, including additional annual leave
If this sounds like you then we would love to hear from you.
NBS powered by Hubexo is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences.
Interested candidates should submit their CV and a cover letter detailing their relevant experience via the apply now option below
Apply Now
- Effectively manage the day-to-day performance of the functions, ensuring the team supports Group business in a responsive and agile manner, whilst delivering strategic initiatives
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team to remove any single points of failure, boost responsiveness and ensure dissemination of knowledge
- Drive process and system simplification in line with best practice to develop a robust system platform benchmarked against industry standards
- Effectively manage the day-to-day performance of the functions, ensuring the team supports Group business in a responsive and agile manner, whilst delivering strategic initiatives
- Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team to remove any single points of failure, boost responsiveness and ensure dissemination of knowledge
- Drive process and system simplification in line with best practice to develop a robust system platform benchmarked against industry standards
|
Collaborate, communicate, and celebrate success
|
|
Collaborate, communicate, and celebrate success
|
|
Collaborate, communicate, and celebrate success
|
Full job description available on request.
