- Job title: Senior UX Designer
- Location: Newcastle, hybrid
- Salary: £30 - 35k, negotiable on experience
Our client, an award winning SaaS organisation, is looking to add to their UX function by recruiting a Senior UX Designer to their talented team. As Senior UX Designer you will work as part of a team of UX Design specialists who are responsible for delivering market leading products and services. This role is vital to the business to promote a UX culture across products to enable the delivery of high quality, consistent and engaging user experiences across web, mobile and desktop software.
Role and responsibilities:
- Take ownership of UX design on features and components and coordinate work with other UX Designers ensuring it follows UX process and meets team UX standards.
- Contribute to UX Design, UI Design and research to produce relevant 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 solutions.
- Contribute to the ongoing enhancements and maintenance of the UX Design System.
- Run and participate in stakeholder and user workshops, research and test sessions to gather data, validate suggestions, ideas, designs and prototypes.
- Produce necessary research to inform your design decisions.
- Produce reports to summarise findings.
- Present work at Sprint Reviews.
- Give and solicit feedback to improve quality.
- Articulate design decisions and proposals.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, Designers, Quality Assurance and Marketing.
- Remain up to date with latest tools and practices in UX.
Skills and experience:
- A good background in a UX focused role.
- A solid understanding of the core UX principals such as UX Design, UI Design and Research.
- Demonstrate experience of turning large quantities of data into simple elegant solutions.
- Experience in agile ways of working.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Flexible and adaptable to a fast changing environment.
- Real passion and talent for all things design.
- Experience of industry software tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dovetail, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Heap and DevOps.