User Experience Designer

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User Experience Designer 

London, EC4V 

£Excellent Salary (negotiable DOE) Plus 25 Days' Annual Leave, Pension, Childcare Vouchers, Life Assurance, Employee Benefit Options 

Our client is looking for a seasoned User Experience Designer to join their growing product development team in London. 

As the User Experience Designer, you’ll be a determined, engaging individual with a proven track record and passion for developing information architecture that optimises the user experience of a product. The prospect of architecting complex information and data to ultimately deliver powerful insights for clients is an exciting one. You are experienced and skilled in building user flows and creating scenarios, storyboards, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes. You excel at working with data and research products. You command a customer-centric focus in all that you do and are driven to deeply understand and empathise with users. All of this you do skilfully and swiftly in an agile setting. 

In this role, you’ll engage with users and work in a cross-functional team to develop products our client’s customers will love. As the User Experience Designer, you’ll develop the information architecture, information hierarchy and overall user experience, collaborating continuously with product development, software engineers, design, marketing, sales and research. You are driven, action-oriented, agile, prioritisation-minded and can break down complex problems into actionable steps that deliver results. 

Responsibilities: 

- Use proven user-centric design principles, business requirements and research to develop information architecture, structure, flow and user interactions. 

- Develop conceptual designs, wireframes, high-fidelity wireframes, click-throughs and prototypes. 

- Own the end-to-end UX processes and deliverable set with frequent iteration and evolution of design solutions. 

- Base design solutions on well-researched use cases, process flows and wireframes, in full knowledge of interaction behaviours. 

- Assess and optimise the user experience by leading and acting upon usability testing and research. 

- Work collaboratively with business stakeholders, product manager and software developers from conceptualisation through design to implementation. 

Required Skills & Experience: 

- 5+ years’ experience designing the user experience, from concept to implementation. Specialisation in information architecture preferred. 

- Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in web design, human-computer interaction (HCI). 

- Direct experience designing interfaces for business applications, data visualisation, SaaS, marketing analytics. 

- Mobile and responsive design experience. 

- Strong command of design thinking principles and process, ability to create highly intuitive and usable interfaces. 

- Experience working in an agile setting with cross-functional teams. 

- Proven ability to move fast, listen, iterate and adapt. 

- Talent for rapid prototyping and incorporating personas, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and feedback. 

- Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills. 

- Experience writing user test scripts, moderating testing, quantifying results and prioritising testing outcomes. 

- High performance under pressure, producing quality output to deadline, within a fast-paced development environment. 

- Knowledge of a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Axure, Invision, XD and Illustrator. 

- Understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and cross-browser compatibility. 

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This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. 

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