UX/UI Designer

hackajob; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

hackajob is partnering with Zaizi to find an experienced UX/UI Designer to work in an agile environment focused on government clients. The role includes managing other designers, creating prototypes, and ensuring effective user-centred design practices while fostering collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday

Vitality medical insurance

Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution

Group Life Assurance

Flexible working

5 days a year for approved Training

Qualifications

• Experienced in user-centred design practices.
• Ability to communicate user needs effectively.
• Proficient in prototyping and interaction design.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor User Experience Designers.
• Define and oversee creation of user-centred design artefacts.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve design goals.

Skills

User Interface Design

Prototyping

Workshop Facilitation

Stakeholder Communication

User-Centred Design

Interaction Design

Tools

Figma

Job description

hackajob is collaborating with Zaizi to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

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.

Requirements

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.

Core Skills & Competencies

• Experience with a range of user-centred design and service design techniques and practices.
• Able to break down designs and communicate them to developers and testers
• Excellent knowledge and experience of prototyping and interaction design.
• Setting design objectives and choosing appropriate tools and techniques.
• The ability to plan user-centred design activities and define protocols.
• Theming and synthesis outputs from raw research to produce strategic insights
• Communicating information to stakeholders and your team
• Being able to work in an agile and flexible way across a number of agile projects
  
  

You don’t meet all the requirements?

Studies show that women and black, Asian and minority ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to still apply. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role here at Zaizi.

We actively welcome applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, parents, carers, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If you need any accommodations to support your specific situation, please feel free to let us know. For candidates who are neurodiverse or have disabilities, we are happy to make any adjustments needed throughout the interview process—just ask!

SC Clearance

Zaizi 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 customers. 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 continuously.

Interview Process

1st stage:

Initial phone screening done by a member of the recruitment team

2nd Stage

Technical interview, this stage evaluates your technical expertise and problem-solving abilities, especially if you're applying for a technical role.

Final Stage

10-15 min presentation and a panel interview where multiple people from different departments ask you questions.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday, plus bank holidays

Vitality medical insurance

Workplace Pension 5% employer contribution

Group Life Assurance

Cyclescheme

5 days a year for approved Training

WFH equipment allowance

Buy / Sell Holiday

2 days paid volunteering days

Other Benefits

Flexible working

Work on exciting projects - make a difference

Empowered to make decisions

Encouraged to fail fast and learn quickly

For further information contact- [e-mail]

Nat Hinds-Head of Talent

Kayla Kirby-Talent Acquisition Specialist

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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