UX/UI Designer (SFIA3/4)

Zaizi Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Pension - 5% employer contribution

Life Assurance

Cyclescheme

Training days (5 per year)

WFH equipment allowance

Holiday buy/sell

Volunteer days

Job summary

Zaizi is seeking a UX/UI Designer to join an agile, delivery-focused team working with government clients. You will mentor other designers and hands-on define prototypes and artefacts to understand user motivations, context and behaviour across end-to-end journeys.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Designers, Developers and testers to ensure user-centred design outcomes inform ongoing work while you help plan activities and workshops.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Oversee and mentor other UX/UI Designers and guide creation of workshops, prototypes and artefacts.
• Define and oversee user-centred design approaches and methodologies for projects in the delivery stream.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Solution Architects, Designers, Developers and testers to ensure outcomes inform ongoing work.

Skills

User interfaces

Figma

Prototyping

Workshops

Stakeholder management

Accessibility

Agile

Mentoring

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.

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.

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