Job Vacancy UX Designer

UX Designer – Holborn - Part-Time

Our Client is seeking to recruit a part-time UX Designer for 20 hours per week.

We are looking for a hands-on practitioner, with a can-do attitude and strong organizational skills.

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.

Your focus will be on people – clients, users/customers, and colleagues; and on the process – support and advocate best practice approaches, and adapt and pivot in order to achieve the most regardless of the context.

The key skills for this role are as follows:

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 Client is based in Holborn Central London.

The salary for this role will be in the range £25K - £30K

Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your availability and salary.