Senior UX Designer - Holborn London

Project Freelance; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 50.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Free-Work in London (Holborn) is seeking a Senior UX Designer to join a design/innovation centre and lead the UX team in defining digital products. You will conduct workshops, run user testing, and prototype with the team, influencing product direction and strategy.

The role requires 3+ years of UX experience, strong portfolio, and ability to work in Agile environments. Based in Holborn, salary £50K-£60K + benefits, with on-site work in London.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• UX designer with over 3 years work experience for respected clients.
• Understanding of the UX processes.
• Experience in interface design for desktop, tablet, and enterprise software design.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is desired.
• Experience of working to strict deadlines.
• Proven design track record.
• Experience in designing user flows, wireframes and implementation instructions.
• Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
• Portfolio of UX and design work.

Responsabilidades

• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to derive personas, use cases, concepts, user journeys and information architecture.
• Create prototypes based on high-level business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to ensure the best creative solutions are realized, implemented and delivered.
• Work along business analysts to complement user stories with design output.
• Work closely with Project manager and the team to ensure the sprint expectations are being respected and backlog defined.
• Keep abreast of latest practices, techniques and emerging technologies within the industry and employ these to develop ideas and inspire creative concepts.
• Act as a design and UX advocate internally and externally.
• Work directly with the client on project scope and expectations.

Conocimientos

World class UX / interface design

Rapid prototyping & storyboarding

Excellent communication

Excellent presentation skills

Wireframes & mockups

HTML, CSS, JavaScript basics

Educación

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Herramientas

Sketch

Axure

Adobe CS

Descripción del empleo

Senior UX Designer – Holborn London

Currently, our London based design and innovation centre is looking for a lead UX designer.

To join the design team and work along other designers, researchers, product owners and technologists in defining and developing digital products and platforms.

The role will involve initiating and managing projects and lead the team forward in daily design tasks which include conducting workshops, user testing and prototyping.

Key responsibilities

• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to derive personas, use cases, concepts, user journeys and information architecture.
• Create prototypes based on high-level business, functional, and technical requirements.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to ensure the best creative solutions are realized, implemented and delivered.
• Work along business analysts to complement user stories with design output
• Work closely with Project manager and the team to ensure the sprint expectations are being respected and backlog defined.
• Keep abreast of latest practices, techniques and emerging technologies within the industry and employ these to develop ideas and inspire creative concepts.
• Act as a design and UX advocate internally and externally.
• Work directly with the client on project scope and expectations.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• UX designer with over 3 years work experience working for respected clients as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role.
• Understanding of the UX processes.
• Experience in interface design for desktop, tablet, and enterprise software design.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment is desired.
• Experience of working to strict deadlines.
• Proven design track record.
• Experience in designing user flows, wireframes and implementation instructions.
• Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
• Portfolio of UX and design work.

Skills

• World class UX / interface design
• Strong proof of concept, rapid prototyping, storyboarding and technical skills.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to quickly turn around detailed wireframes and mock-ups in an iterative environment.
• Proficiency in Sketch, Axure, Adobe CS, etc.
• An understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and other key web technologies.

The position will be based in Holborn London.

The salary for this role will be in the range £50K - £60K + Benefits