User Experience Designer


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Recruiter

SAGE Publishing

Listed on

23rd July 2021

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£36000 - £47000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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Job Purpose

The User Experience Designer leads major user experience (UX) research and design initiatives within a business unit. By working in close collaboration with product managers, stakeholders and other members of the User Experience Team, the job holder aims to deepen our understanding of our users and create solutions that are tailored to best meet business and user needs.

Key Accountabilities

Lead on critical design discovery work, including capturing, documenting and communicating user needs. Clearly communicate outcomes with standard tools of the trade, such as user flows, affinity maps and personas.

Collaborate with fellow team members to craft a vision for the user experience that meets business and user goals, and work with wider stakeholders to bring them on board.

Deliver strong concepts, from initial sketches to flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes, quickly iterating on designs.

Seek early feedback from stakeholders to ensure that your designs work within any constraints set by branding, systems, standards and technology.

Work with users to solicit feedback on design work, including user testing of prototypes.

Hand over to visual designers and developers, leaving them with a solid understanding of the design decisions taken and remaining on hand to co-create solutions to any problems that arise downstream.

Conduct acceptance testing to ensure that the developed product lives up to the experience as designed.

Skills qualifications and expereince

3+ years' experience in a similar role

Collaborative work style focused on co-creating solutions with fellow team members and other stakeholders.

Experience with standard research methods such as user testing, interviews, focus groups, card sorting and competitor analysis.

Ability to draw insights from qualitative and quantitative data to inform designs.

Solid information architecture skills and an ability to represent complex information with clarity.

Understanding of web accessibility and experience of designing inclusive and accessible experiences.

Comprehensive experience of at least one rapid prototyping tool.

Experience of creating successful responsive designs.

Effective time management and multitasking.

Additional information

This job description is not contractual.  To perform this role successfully, you must be able to perform each of the key accountabilities satisfactorily. To meet changes in business operational, procedural or technical requirements SAGE may add, remove or amend/change the accountabilities for this role and you should be aware that this job description is not exhaustive and you may be asked to undertake reasonable tasks and activities outside those for which you are primarily employed.

SAGE UK is committed to Diversity and Inclusion and is an equal opportunities employer.  We value individuality and therefore welcome all qualified applications from a diverse range of candidates.

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