UX Designer (Remote) - Research-Led & AI-Augmented

NOCN; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

38 days leave incl. bank holidays

Pension scheme

Wellbeing support

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working

Life assurance

Modern office spaces

Dress down Fridays

Job summary

NOCN Group's Digital Services team seeks a motivated UX Designer to help deliver high-quality services aligned with our strategic objectives. While the role is remote, there will be an element of office-based work in Sheffield once a week/a few times a month.

Reporting to the Group Director - Digital, you will conduct discovery, run user research, design in Figma, and collaborate with developers and data colleagues to ship accessible, user-centred solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in a Design, HCI, Psychology, social science or related discipline OR equivalent practical experience.
• Evidence of continuous professional development in UX research, interaction design, accessibility, AI tooling or related disciplines.
• Experience operating within an Agile / Scrum, discovery-led environment.
• Proven experience planning and running user research and translating findings into design decisions on products that shipped.
• Strong design thinking to frame the right problem and justify design decisions.
• Solid interaction and visual design craft with a communicating prototype portfolio.
• Track record of producing prototypes at speed to test ideas with real users.
• Confident with Figma and modern prototyping tools.
• Practical knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and inclusive design.
• Able to facilitate workshops and bring stakeholders along.
• Exceptional use of AI tools to support research, ideation and prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run discovery and evaluative research throughout the product lifecycle.
• Apply design thinking to frame problems, create personas, journey maps and prioritised opportunities.
• Facilitate workshops and cross-functional thinking with the team.
• Design wireframes, prototypes and interaction flows in Figma for rapid testing.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate research synthesis and ideation.
• Collaborate with developers and data colleagues to move from design to working software.
• Champion accessibility and inclusive design across deliverables.
• Establish a shared design language and reusable pattern library.
• Help set design and research direction at NOCN and raise the bar for user collaboration.

Skills

UX design

Research methods

Design thinking

Agile / Scrum

Workshop facilitation

Prototyping

Figma

Accessibility WCAG

AI tooling

Education

Degree in Design, HCI, Psychology or related discipline

Level 2 Literacy and Numeracy

Tools

Figma

Job description

NOCN Group's Digital Services team seeks a motivated UX Designer to help deliver high-quality services aligned with our strategic objectives. While the role is remote, there will be an element of office-based work in Sheffield once a week/a few times a month.

Reporting to the Group Director - Digital, you will conduct discovery, run user research, design in Figma, and collaborate with developers and data colleagues to ship accessible, user-centred solutions.