UX Design Consultant

Free-Work; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Free-Work in London is seeking a UX Design Consultant with 3 to 4 years of UX design experience. This consultancy role involves advising a global education client on direction and execution of several products as part of a evolving digital strategy.

The candidate should be self-managed, organized, and able to prioritise and advise multiple stakeholders under tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Senior designer with 4+ years of experience with blue chip clients.
• Experience in design processes, agile development and lean UX.
• Proven ability to work with interdisciplinary teams.
• Ability to deliver omnichannel, cross-device experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX design work for multiple products/projects.
• Advise stakeholders on direction and execution.
• Turn around wireframes quickly in iterative cycles.

Skills

Communication

Workshop facilitation

UX research

Ambiguity management

Stakeholder advising

UX process

Visual thinking

Rapid prototyping

Wireframes

Sketch

Axure

Service Design awareness

Education

Design degree or equivalent

Tools

Sketch

Axure

Job description

UX Design Consultant

Our Client is looking to recruit a UX designer Consultant with 3 to 4 years UX Design experience.

This is a consultancy role, advising a global player in Education on direction and execution of a number of products/projects, as part of the evolving digital strategy.

It is essential that you are self-managed and organized, and able to effectively prioritize and advise multiple stakeholders.

SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills, written and oral. Excellent presentation skills.
• Workshop facilitation.
• UX and ethnographic research.
• Ability to fluidly and confidently work in ambiguous situations.
• Provide leadership in challenging situations through clarity, tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to identify and communicate the commercial impact of design decisions.
• Full command of the UX process is a must. An understanding of the Service Design purpose and process is a bonus.
• Visual thinking, proof of concept, rapid prototyping, storyboarding and technical skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to quickly turn around wireframes in an iterative environment.
• Proficiency in Sketch, Axure, etc.
• An understanding of technology.

EXPERIENCE

• Senior designer with over 4 years of work experience with blue chip clients as a UX designer, Product designer, UX architect, or a Service designer.
• Design processes, agile development and lean UX.
• Working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team.
• Creating omnichannel experiences - cross-platform and cross-device solutions.
• Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
• Working to strict deadlines.
• Proven design track record and design agency experience.
• Design degree or equivalent.

The duration of this assignment will be up to 2 months.

The location is Holborn London.