UX/UI Designer

zaizi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Vitality Health Insurance

£500 learning budget

Workplace Pension

Group Life Assurance

Flexible working

Team building away days

Takeaway free lunches

Regular social activities

Free fruit and coffee

Job summary

Zaizi is seeking a UX/UI Designer to work in an agile delivery environment, collaborating with government clients. You will mentor other designers and lead hands-on design activities, prototypes, and artefacts to understand user motivations and behaviours across end-to-end journeys.

You will work closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Designers, Developers and testers to ensure UX outcomes are understood and guide ongoing activities.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and conducting user research to inform design decisions.
• Ability to mentor and guide other UX designers in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong proficiency in creating prototypes and design artefacts.

Responsibilities

• Define and oversee user-centred design activities within agile projects.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Solutions Architects, Designers, Developers and testers to ensure UX outcomes.
• Create prototypes and workshops to inform decision making and drive actions.
• Communicate user needs to stakeholders and evangelise UX best practices.

Skills

User research

Mentoring

Prototyping

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder communication

Agile working

Tools

Figma

Job description

• Zaizi is looking for a UX/UI Designer to work in a delivery-focused, agile environment, working with government clients
• You’ll be managing and mentoring other User Experience Designers and getting hands on to define and oversee the creation of prototypes and other user-centred design artefacts that will help to understand user motivations, context and behaviour, processes and services, around end-to-end user journeys
• At Zaizi, a UX/UI Designer will work within a multi disciplinary team and is responsible for planning, defining and overseeing user-centred design activities
• You will work closely with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Designers, Developers and testers to make sure their user-centred design outcomes are understood and inform continuing activities
• These are the expected objectives for this role and we would be eager to discuss this further during the interview process and jointly agree it with the successful candidate
• Expert knowledge and experience of user interfaces such as Figma
• Communicate and evangelise user needs to the team and wider stakeholders
• Create prototypes to feed into development
• Work with team members to design and conduct workshops
• Building relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Able to elicit requirements from ambiguous user needs
• Be the go to person in this area of expertise
• Provide guidance and best practice on accessible design
• Work with team members (Developers in particular) to bring designs to life in production
• You will oversee and support the creation of workshops, prototypes and other design artefacts to inform decision making and drive actions
• You will help to define the user-centred design approaches and methodologies for projects and initiatives and help with the planning of user-experience activities

Benefits

• 25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays
• Vitality Health Insurance
• £500 budget on learning and development
• Workplace Pension
• Group Life Assurance
• Flexible working
• Team building away days
• Takeaway free lunches
• Regular social activities
• Free fruit and coffee in the office Cyclescheme

Due to this restriction we can currently only recruit candidates who have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and who have lived in the UK for the last 5+ years continuouslyZaizi works with UK Central Government departments on a range of projects. To be able to work on our customer projects, employees must be Security Cleared to a standard acceptable to our Government customersSetting design objectives and choosing appropriate tools and techniquesBeing able to work in an agile and flexible way across a number of agile projectsTheming and synthesis outputs from raw research to produce strategic insightsThe ability to plan user-centred design activities and define protocolsCommunicating information to stakeholders and your teamAble to break down designs and communicate them to developers and testersExcellent knowledge and experience of prototyping and interaction designExperience with a range of user-centred design and service design techniques and practices