Head of UX Design

Skin Analytics; Camden Town; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health tech company in London is seeking a Head of UX Design to establish the UX function, lead a team, and set up design systems. This role offers an opportunity to drive innovative design practices while collaborating with senior management and various stakeholders. Ideal candidates should have extensive team leadership experience, proficiency in accessibility standards, and a passion for user-centric design. The role is hybrid, requiring 3 days a week in the office. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Share options package

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Enhanced parental leave

Bike to work scheme

Training budget

Social activities

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-growing business as a Head of or Lead.
• Proficient in leading teams of designers and researchers.
• Fundamental knowledge in accessibility standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale the UX function, establishing standards.
• Collaborate with senior management for design resources.
• Manage and develop UX Designers for high-quality outputs.
• Work across internal teams and stakeholders.
• Establish performance metrics from scratch.

Skills

Team Leadership

User Research

Design Systems

Accessibility Standards

Information Architecture

Service Design

Product Design

Localization Projects

UX and UI Design

Copywriting

Job description

Overview

As the Head of UX Design you will be responsible for building and establishing the UX function within Skin Analytics to be able to deliver strong UX capabilities across all business units. You will lead on how to set up a successful team and systems with one direct report to achieve the business objectives across new and growth areas.

Responsibilities

• Leading and scaling the UX function - setting up design systems, accessibility standards etc from scratch.
• Working with the Senior Management Team - making cases for more design resources and continuously measure, track and share the value on an ongoing basis.
• People Management and Leadership - managing and developing UX Designer and setting a high standard for the UX work delivered.
• Cross functional working - working with internal teams and stakeholders across all business units.
• Measuring performance - setting the structure and metrics from scratch.

Qualifications

• Previously or are currently working as a Head of or Lead in a fast growing business
• Experience leading teams of both designers and user researchers
• Experience setting up accessibility standards from scratch
• Information architecture, content design and personas
• Experience with service design
• Good taste in product design
• Worked on localisation projects
• Experience across both web and app and B2B and B2C
• Healthcare experience is great addition but not must
• UX and UI experience is preferable
• Content/copywriting would be highly advantageous

About Skin Analytics

Skin Analytics is an award-winning, health tech company that works with dermatology teams to deploy world-leading skin cancer pathways using AI as a medical device, DERM. Following our recent £15M series B funding round and regulatory milestones, we're ready to scale internationally, making history for AI in healthcare and the future of dermatology. We're proud to epitomise AI for good - with a Class III CE mark, DERM is the only AI as a medical device approved to make clinical decisions autonomously in the cancer space, as well as being the first company to receive a NICE recommendation for use across the NHS. DERM is deployed at more than 25 NHS organisations where we're supporting dermatology teams to build sustainable services that enable patients to gain quicker access to skin cancer diagnosis. We also collaborate with some of the largest health insurers to reach patients in their own homes. We are a team of passionate people on a mission to build a future where no one dies from skin cancer.

Location

London based - Hybrid (3 days a week in the office).

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Share options package - all our employees have ownership in the company
• Private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (5 day company shutdown in August + bank holidays)
• Enhanced parental leave - includes adoption & foster
• Bike to work scheme
• Training budget
• Weekly catch-ups, monthly meetings to talk about you, your ambitions and make plans
• Lots of fun social activities including company offsite!