UX Content Designer

LA International; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global ICT recruitment consultancy is looking for a UX Content Designer to join their team on a 12-month hybrid contract. The ideal candidate should have strong content design experience and an understanding of user-centered design methodologies. Responsibilities include understanding user needs, engaging with stakeholders, managing priorities, and creating user-friendly content that is clear and impactful. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates interested in making a difference in a leading organization.

Qualifications

• Champions user needs and communicates effectively.
• Passionate about the profession and vision.
• Acts innovatively and seeks effective changes.

Responsibilities

• Understand users and identify their needs.
• Translate user stories into design proposals.
• Advocate for user needs in stakeholder meetings.
• Engage in meaningful interactions with users.
• Manage competing priorities across multiple projects.
• Utilize data to drive user-focused outcomes.
• Design accessible content with clarity.
• Implement style standards collaboratively.
• Evaluate business impacts and processes.

Skills

Content design experience

Working in Agile environment

Experienced with using a variety of UCD methodologies

Job description

UX Content Designer

12 Month contract initially

Based: Hybrid - Remote/2 days p/week onsite in Manchester

Rate: Up to £400 p/d (via Umbrella company)

We have a great opportunity with a world leading organisation where you will be provided with all of the support and development to succeed. A progressive organisation where you can really make a difference. We have a great opportunity for a UX Content Designer to join the team.

A content designer is part of the project from the start, setting the purpose for the content on the page. Adept at creating customer-focused copy, a content designer can explain things simply and position content in the right place, in the right format, for the right audience.

Key Responsibilities

• Understands users and can identify who they are and what their needs are based on evidence.
• Translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs.
• Advocates for user needs in stakeholder meetings or with key product team members.
• Engage in meaningful interactions and relationships with users.
• Manage competing priorities.
• Work on multiple projects at the same time, ensuring the customer is at the heart of the outcome.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data about users to turn user focus into outcomes.
• Design content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand.
• Creates, collaborates, understands, and implements style and standards.
• Have an overall perspective on business issues, events, activities and an understanding of their wider implications and long-term impact.
• Has the ability to work in a fast‑paced, evolving environment and utilises an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid delivery. Is accountable for quality outcomes.
• Identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
• Helps the team to decide the best approach, to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP) and scope.
• Maintain knowledge of and adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements, including risk.

Key Skills & Experience

• Content design experience.
• Working in Agile environment.
• Experienced with using a variety of UCD methodologies.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Champions user needs and helps teams to communicate.
• Has a passion for the profession and communicates the vision to the team clearly.
• Challenges ways of working and the status quo.
• People who excel in this area take initiative, are innovative, and seek out opportunities to create effective change.
• Being open to change and improvement, and working in 'smarter', more focused ways.
• Is a proven communicator with an understanding and appreciation of the regulatory environment.
• Creates effective communication through design, research, and iteration.
• Actively contributes to and conceives content standards and guidelines from user experience and accessibility guidance.

This is an excellent opportunity on a great project of work, If you are looking for your next exciting opportunity, apply now for your CV to reach me directly, we will respond as soon as possible.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International, winner of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, Best IT Recruitment Company, Best Public Sector Recruitment Company and overall Gold Award winner, has now secured the most prestigious business award that any business can receive, The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade, for the second consecutive period.