UX Architect / User Experience Architect / Product Designer

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Job Title: UX Architect

Location: London (NW5)

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 plus Benefits

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Core Hours: 9.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Friday

About the Company

The Company is one of the UK's leading customer generation companies. They are a rapidly growing business - they topped the Sunday Times Tech Track, and since then grew 278% per annum before tripling in size again. They now employ over 400 staff in the UK and USA, and conduct marketing activities in more than 120 countries. They are on a mission to accelerate their clients' growth by building the world's most effective marketing platform through a passion for data, relentless innovation and their development of world class teams.

Their Team

The Product Design & UX Teams are proving to be an increasingly more valuable part of the way they approach projects there. Tasked with working on some of their most valuable and biggest impacting projects their Product Designers and UX Architects are exposed to various stakeholders across the business from C-level directors through to their actual users. They provide valuable input from research through to wireframing, design and testing. The Product Design & UX team have consistently proven that they are a world class team of experts and were shortlisted for the UXUK Awards 2017.

The Role

As a UX Architect you will be the "Big Picture Thinker" and the vital link between site users and their internal teams that build them. You will be responsible for identifying user problems, highlighting new opportunities and working with their teams to build high quality services for their customers. You will be championing best practice and ensuring the user experience across their site is kept to the highest of standards.

Responsibilities:

You will provide their site teams with detailed user insight to help build context and understanding of complex issues ensuring that there is a holistic approach to problem solving.

1 Facilitate a range of UX focused sessions with site managers, CRO and various other stakeholders across the business to identify the best way to approach a problem

2 Work with site teams to build detailed user research strategies and deliver appropriate solutions from findings.

3 Build strong relationships across the business from tech through to commercial teams.

4 Map out sites, flows and journeys to help all stakeholders understand every moving part of any site and identify friction points / opportunities

5 Manage the UX process from research through to wireframing and possibly design.

6 Build interactive prototypes to fully articulate and test solutions with real users

7 Collaborate with Engineers to make sure all UX work is built to specification

8 Learn fast and be able to articulate a solution and gain buy-in from stakeholders throughout the business

Their Ideal Candidate:

Is fully competent in:

* Creating wireframes and UX prototypes

* Information architecture

* Sketch, Illustrator or equivalent

* Interactive prototyping tools such as UXPin or equivalent

* Track record of identifying and solving complex problems with smart, well considered solutions.

* Understanding data from multiple sources to reconcile and inform decisions

* Web analytic tools such as Google Analytics, VWO, HotJar and Optimizely

* Creating and maintaining UX guidelines, pattern libraries and best practice

* Conducting UX research

Preferable experience in:

* Experience, Service or Product design based Degree or equivalent

* Working on content driven SEO sites

* Understanding and/or experience in JQuery, HTML & CSS

* Ideally looking for in-house experience or similar (long term contract)

Benefits

* £1000 Training Budget per annum

* Unlimited Book Allowance

* Charity Days

* Free food and fruit throughout the day

* Relaxed, informal culture - no dress code

* Hours 9-5 Monday-Friday - we promote a work/life balance culture

* Monthly company-wide lunches

* Gaming and book clubs

* Sports clubs including Football, Running, Volleyball, and Cycling

* Corporate gym membership

* Cycle to work scheme

* Childcare vouchers

* Family First culture

* Regular social nights out

* Trips to Ibiza for all staff on achieving annual targets

Please click the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; UX Achitect, Web Analytics, Google Analytics, UX Designer, Product Designer, UXPin, VWO, HotJar, Optimizely, UX Researcher, User Experience Architect, Technical Architect may also be considered for this role.