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About Us

At eConsult our mission is to transform the way that healthcare is delivered. We believe that our National Health Service should thrive. Our products are clinically led and have been designed to enable our client practices to deliver safe and effective triaging. We are proud to say our products are widely adopted; eConsult is used in over 3,000 practices in the United Kingdom and growing fast. We are now shifting our growth focus into a hospital setting, with related digital triage products in both A&E and outpatients. Beyond that, we have an emerging strategy to take the platform overseas.

We are an innovative, ambitious, and ethically entrepreneurial business. Our team is 70+ people strong and we are currently looking for talented individuals to join our growing team. To learn more about us, please visit our website: https://econsult.net/about-us/

Role Summary

We’re looking for an experienced user researcher to join our User Experience team. You’ll be helping us understand the needs and behaviours of the people who use our digital triage products, including clinical staff who work in primary and secondary care settings.

We’d like to work with someone who can balance critical thinking with empathy (our products are for people with health issues and busy clinical teams), and who’s comfortable managing research projects independently if required.

Key responsibilities

• Undertake user research activity to help inform and develop eConsult’s digital triage products;
• Design and conduct user research (qualitative, quantitative, collaborative, online and usability research) with members of the public and clinical teams inside NHS organisations;
• Help establish a user research practice which involves the whole UX and product teams;
• Help inform product strategy and direction through high quality user insights, particularly with the aim of delivering an improved user interface and accessible content;
• Catalogue and maintain an “insights library” of research findings
• Help run a research lab
• Source research participants both from an existing customer base and using external recruitment agencies

Your Experience

• Experience in research equivalent to or educated to master’s level (or equivalent qualification).
• Experience of running user research inside agile, cross-functional product teams.
• Experience undertaking research with disadvantaged populations as well as persons with disabilities
• Substantial knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methodology.

In return, we offer

• 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
• Flexible approach to remote working
• Life assurance
• Income protection scheme
• Rewards for success; we are results driven and offer bonuses based on performance
• Contributory pension scheme
• A remarkable opportunity to join an ethically entrepreneurial business where you can make a positive difference to our customers, their patients and society at large

Over two years you will work at two of the businesses within the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, Cirium focuses on aviation and travel data whilst the LexisNexis Risk Solutions role will be in Financial Crime Screening. In both roles you will work to build out your experience of a user-centred design process learning best practice methods for researching, designing and validating solutions within a team of UX designers.

As a company that provides business to business data solutions we look at solving complex workflow problems for our customers and delivering insights from vast quantities of data that help customers to make critical decisions. In Financial Crime Screening we help financial institutions prevent money laundering, terrorist funding and fraud. At Cirium we help airports plan where to park the planes, airlines to plan maintenance of their fleet and insurers to estimate the risk level by knowing the wear of every component of an aircraft.

We have a very active UX community across the group which works collectively to share best practice and keep each other up to date on UX tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to learn from and contribute to this community as you develop your skills.

A typical day would involve meeting with product managers to review designs for new product features, time spent designing user interfaces and working with developers to bring designs to reality. At times you will be able to interview end users and watch them using our products while asking questions to understand their needs and pain points. You may find yourself selling the value of UX to teams that haven’t had much exposure to the benefits yet or gathering with a group of UX colleagues to brainstorm a new solution.

There will also be focused learning through the graduate scheme specifically for UX and general corporate skills training along with the full graduate cohort. You will be expected to drive most of your own learning with online resources and by reaching out to people in the community.

This role requires creativity, a strong logical mind, a good design eye and the ability to see things from someone else’s point of view. You will learn to tell a good story to communicate the user needs to your team and sell your design solution to them.

Opportunities and Responsibilities

Gradually, with support, you will be able to

• Identify the goals, user journeys and information architecture for web/software/mobile app interfaces to meet the needs of our user personas
• Collaborate with the design team on a design system and/or developing consistent best practice guidelines
• Collaborate with the wider RSG community of talent, learning from outside sources of expertise beyond your business
• Work independently on projects with the support of senior designers
• Be a leading voice for design and best practice, raising situations with senior designers for support and consultation if necessary
• Create low-fidelity sketches to demonstrate how users could interact with products.
• Create detailed wireframes and interactive prototypes to evolve product design
• Run user research and usability testing to validate designs and update designs based on customer feedback

Key Skills

• A recent Bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in a related discipline is desirable e.g. HCI, user experience, product design, graphic design, interaction design, usability. Candidates from other backgrounds are encouraged if you can demonstrate that you have design skills and interest in UX
• Empathy for users and passion for helping to create new digital products
• Excellent communication and team work skills
• Time management skills, being adaptable to the requirements of multiple projects
• Proactive in representing yourself and building relationships with teams outside of the UX community
• An appreciation of UX design methodologies and trends
• Ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with design software such as Sketch, Axure, AdobeXD, InVision DSM or similar
• A portfolio showing examples of your work (can be coursework, work experience or personal blog)

What it’s like to work here?

Outstanding - you’ve probably already got a feel for what we do and the technology we’re involved with but what’s really stands us out from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward thinking organisation who understands the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and family life.

Women in technology

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 26.2% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

• Mentoring Scheme for Women in Technology
• Women’s Network Forum
• Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG)

RSG proudly support the Tech Talent Charter.

Diversity & Inclusion

As a global company, we understand the value of diversity, and our inclusive environment is what drives industry-changing innovation. Our Diversity and Inclusion Statement articulates our commitment to a diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment that respects individuals and their contributions, regardless of background.

As part of this commitment, we support Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) as an opportunity for employees to contribute directly to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. There are several ERGs across the business and always room to create many more. Our employees receive 2 days paid hours to attend and work with our ERGs.

Corporate Social Responsibility

We have a culture of giving back to our local communities. That means every employee gets two paid days to volunteer for a cause close to their heart. We also offer a Wellbeing programme as we passionate about health and wellbeing as they’re such important enablers to living a fulfilling and purposeful life.

About LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group, part of RELX, is a portfolio of brands that span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics and decision tools and data services. Our brands provide market-specific solutions that help our customers solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk and improve their operations.

We meet the needs of our customers every day and serve a variety of sectors including aviation, agriculture, chemical and energy, financial services, collections and payments, commercial property, corporations and non-profits, government and law enforcement agencies, healthcare, human resources, insurance and tax. Our deep industry expertise is combined with vast data resources and advanced analytics to help customers find the answers they need. We help detect and prevent online fraud and money laundering and deliver actionable insights to insurance companies and healthcare networks. We provide digital tools that help airlines, agribusinesses and tax professionals improve their operations. We empower organizations to create purposeful workplaces, and we are the trusted source of market intelligence for real estate and the world of chemicals, energy and fertilizers.

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.877.734.1938.

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Barnardo’s Innovation Lab team are looking to recruit a user researcher (permanent role) to work on a wide range of very interesting projects. We are a small and dedicated team of digital and physical service designers, researchers, and developers. If you are interested in conducting user research within the UK’s largest children’s charity and working on the frontline to improve the lives of young people and their families, then please consider applying. Our team’s mission is to uncover, test and develop innovative ideas and practices so Barnardo’s can meet the challenges of modern society and create better outcomes for more children, today and in the future.

We’re looking for a ‘mid-weight’ user researcher, who is confident in planning, designing and carrying out research activities with service users that help teams get a deep understanding of the people that use and deliver our services. Your research will inform the development of new products, services and processes from Discovery stage onwards. You’ll gather and share insights to build a better understanding for everyone working on social care transformation and bring these insights and learnings to life for colleagues in the most appropriate ways, including through presentations and printed or online artefacts.

This is a great opportunity for a user researcher to make a big difference in the social care sector, working to enhance services and experiences for children, young people, their families, as well as those who are delivering these services

Diversity and representation are extremely important to us and we are committed to engaging with applicants across a range of backgrounds for this role - including race, class, ethnicity, disability, gender and sexual orientation.

This post is designated as a homeworker. The post holder will be expected to travel frequently to Barnardo’s sites and offices.

Please note that Barnardo’s is in the process of implementing a ‘work from anywhere’ strategy. This means that you will not be allocated a desk space in an office and are likely to be primarily required to work from home, with flexible work spaces being available for you to use when necessary.

Barnardo’s believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

About Barnardo’s

At Barnardo’s we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo’s is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo’s.

Our basis and values

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We’re looking for a senior UX/UI Designer with demonstrable experience and huge passion for designing easy-to-use web and mobile experiences, centred on the customer.

This role will be working as part of our multi-disciplinary team to design easy-to-use web experiences and mobile applications across Clarion Group. You will be responsible for developing, measuring and optimising key customer experiences, making it easier for customers to access online services, exploring different approaches to solve end-users’ problems. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of the product design life cycle, from collaborating with Product Managers / Product Owners and Business stakeholders, to supporting a cross-functional agile team throughout implementation. You will also mentor a mid-level UX/UI Designer.

Clarion Housing Group comprises a housing association, a property company and a charitable foundation. We operate an extensive digital portfolio and we’re two years into an ambitious digital programme. We’ve built the foundations of a progressive digital platform and now we’re growing the team. We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer to help us take the next steps.

The successful candidate will

• Have experience of digital design systems and ability to take ownership of the evolution of a mature system
• Have experience of mentoring lower to mid-level designers and have the ability to steer our growing in-house design function
• Be responsible for all aspects of the digital product design lifecycle
• Have excellent working experience and passion for interaction and user-centred experience design in a digital Agile environment
• Gather and evaluate design requirements in collaboration with product managers, product owners, BAs, developers and internal stakeholders
• Translate business objectives and user needs into innovative designs and intuitive applications, applying user-centred design methodologies
• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, user/process flows, wireframes and prototypes, translating them in high fidelity mock-ups.

In return, we offer a highly competitive salary; a Group Bonus Scheme and other benefits, including a defined contribution pension matched up to 7.5% and generous life assurance.

If that sounds like you, we very much look forward to hearing from you.

Closing Date: Midnight on 23rd May

You can download the role profile here Senior UX/UI Designer

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy; Clarion are not able to offer visa sponsorship.

*We are notonthehighstreet.

We’re home to 5,000 phenomenal small creative businesses that we are proud to call our Partners. But, now more than ever, this community needs our support. So we’re doing all we can to shine a light on these dynamic entrepreneurs, waving the flag for small businesses and generally championing their socks off.

On top of our brilliant Partners, products and customers (not to mention our incredible team who have been busy beavering away from home since March), the last 12 months has seen great progress with our tech platform and customer experience. We are now looking to build on this momentum to drive our business to the next level. And that’s where you come in.

The role

You will join the Product Design team and work as part of the wider Digital Product team; namely with product management, development, and product designers. You will ensure we are developing the right experiences for our customers and Partners. You will be energised by lean UX research, to help the team quickly generate hypotheses and validate or disprove them. More than just helping us answer an isolated series of questions, you will take on the creation artefacts such as experience maps to help immerse the whole team in user goals and journeys.

Something about you

We are looking for someone who is excited to do research quickly and support a keen, experienced product team learn about our Partners and consumers. You will be driven to run UX research every week, and comfortable advising the team on how best to implement the findings to keep our development moving forward.

You will be an enthusiastic self-starter, able to work in teams or autonomously, and someone who always has their finger on the pulse of what is going on in the world of eCommerce…!

You’re a natural collaborator, used to working closely with Product and Design, thinking openly, to get the best results.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and owning the optimum UX research plan for the business
• Working closely with the Product Managers and Product Designers to ensure we’re asking the right questions and that research outcomes can be fed into ongoing product development
• Advising on suitable research methods, with a bias towards lean methods
• Recruiting the right people to participate in research, whether Partners or consumers
• Running all phases of research, including development of discussion guides, facilitating interviews or moderating usability tests, analysing and sharing findings
• Synthesising your own research and data from other sources (such as market research surveys, expert reviews, and analytics data) into artefacts, such as experience maps.
• Sharing insights regularly and visibly to various stakeholders and teams
• Manage your own interviewing and usability testing resources, including equipment and testing software
• Helping shape and evolve our UX research processes and best practices
• Participate in a wider, cross-functional research and analytical working group to share findings and bring together results that will improve experiences and processes

Some key skills & experience you’ll need

• Hands-on user research experience either client-side or agency
• A detailed understanding of the full UCD lifecycle and how user research fits within it
• Worked in an agile environment
• Previous experience with usability testing tools (e.g. usertesting.com is a bonus)
• Experience in a variety of research methods: face-to-face user interviews, remote usability testing, online surveys, etc.
• Experience with web analytics to put your qualitative insights into quantitative context is a bonus

Diversity and Inclusion

Everyone’s welcome at notonthehighstreet – whoever they are, wherever their background.

As part of your application you’ll be asked to complete a demographic survey to help us learn more about who wants to work with us. It’s completely optional (but really appreciated) and it’s 100% anonymous. We’ll only use the information to help us figure out how to make our team even more inclusive and attract more brilliant people to join us, with the help of our cross-team Diversity Champions to drive progress.

Apply to join #teamnoths

We’d love to hear more about you, your experience and why you’d like to join our team.

For now, our recruitment and induction processes are fully remote, taking advantage of the wonders of modern-day technology. If you are successful in your initial application we’ll explain more about next steps, as this can vary slightly from role to role. Good luck!

About this role

We’re hiring an experienced digital product (UX/UI) designer to join our team and help lead the creation of HASH’s new platform.

You’ll be designing interfaces that make data-heavy workflows easily understood, and will be our first full-time in-house designer, working directly alongside the CEO and our frontend leads.

HASH is a remote-first company, with offices in London and New York. This is a permanent role open to applicants globally, both remote (work-from-home) and in-office, provided a willingness to work East Coast (US) or London (Europe) timezones.

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing responsive B2B SaaS web applications in tools such as Figma (our preference), Framer X or Sketch.
• A strong design portfolio showcasing your previous work
• Expert understanding of cross-browser and cross-device design considerations
• Strong communication skills, and an ability to manage one’s own time and workload well
• Ability to work alongside our developers and deeply-technical users (who are themselves developers or data scientists) to scope, prototype and design new features
• Beneficial but not required
• Prior experience outside of pure design: in either product management, or data science.
• Data, simulation or network-specific visualization work within your portfolio.
• Experience building styled components and working in the codebase of a modern React application.

About the Company

We are a rapidly growing mobile games studio, founded by a team of industry veterans from some of the biggest names in mobile games such as King, Peak Games, Facebook, and Product Madness. Our mission is to bring the knowledge and experience of a chart-topping mobile games company into a close-knit, collaborative environment. Our guiding principle as a team is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others. The studio is filled with people who love taking things apart and figuring out how they work. We enjoy problem-solving and most importantly, we LOVE making games. We are passionate about our craft and work closely across all disciplines to ensure that passion makes its way into every aspect of our games.

About the Role

As our new Senior UX Designer / Researcher you will act as a bridge between product and art and as a key stakeholder of the best UX practices, design systems for our games and UX research initiatives.

You will be joining the team at a crucial time for the studio as we are just starting to develop our User Experience Team, which will offer a great career opportunity for the right candidate.

Key responsibilities may include

• Design from scratch and conduct qualitative studies (usability studies, click-tests etc.), analyze data, and share findings in a clear way with the teams
• Build, promote and maintain Design Systems with the help of our game teams
• Actively participate in cross-functional team discussions to identify UX issues
• Define research strategy and manage multiple projects across a variety of methodologies
• Use your creativity to determine the best method for each study, gathering insights from relevant audiences.
• Maintain ongoing research initiatives including projects with external research vendors
• Work cross-functionally with art, product and leadership

Core Abilities

You are experienced in qualitative methods such as focus groups, in-depth interviewing, and usability testing, experienced with designing and analyzing surveys, passionate about research and videogames, able to quickly prototype solutions and present them to the teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years in a UX role, preferably in the game industry
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Expertise in Figma, Photoshop and/or any other prototyping tools
• Experience with qualitative research methods
• Experience with quantitative research methods
• Ability to present clear results
• Problem-solving skills, you strive to find ways to overcome problems before they arise
• Ability to ask and answer meaningful and impactful questions
• Experience working in an agile environment

Benefits

• Competitive Salary plus options
• Yearly CPD allowance for learning and development materials, courses, and seminars
• Health insurance, Dental, Life, and Critical Illness cover
• Subsidised gym membership and cycle to work scheme
• Regular perks such as cocktail parties, game nights and a PS5 for Christmas

Contact

Applications should be sent to [email protected]

Tripledot Studios is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status or veteran status

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it’s our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Role Purpose

As a UX Designer, you are an integral part of product development. You love solving problems, are willing to embrace the unknown and able to work within distributed and cross-functional teams. You are part of a dedicated team committed to producing world-class digital products and services. You share our passion for user centric design and drive to experiment and innovate.

You will be part of one or multiple product development squads, responsible for building engaging products. You have experience working within agile teams and driving forward product goals and metrics. You continuously search for improvements and work with your team to implement them. You should be able to own and deliver UX concepts in squads – user personas, storyboards, customer journey maps, user flows, wireframes and interaction design.

This position is within the Insurance, Payments and Incubation area. This product area in Vodafone enables cutting-edge experiences for our customers by executing strategic external partnerships and developing customer-facing products launched across Vodafone Operating Companies (Countries). The products span areas of Digital Discovery and Distribution, Charging and Offer Provisioning, and Insurance across all Vodafone consumer offerings – Mobile, Broadband/fixed and TV.

Key accountabilities

• Responsible for design experience working with Product Owners and other squad members towards product goals
• Be the user and design expert in product squads, delivering high quality product design, championing Vodafone Brand guidelines and follow design principles
• Create comprehensive UX concepts covering personas, storyboards, customer journey maps, user flows, wireframes and interaction design
• Take ownership of user research initiatives to inform and validate design direction
• Ensure consistency in design across Vodafone products by working with peers in other squads

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• At least five years’ experience in app or web products UX design and at least one year experience in a technology product or service development environment, working within agile teams
• Able to work effectively in a cross-functional agile team in a fast-moving environment   Must be able to balance priorities, respond positively to change and work with geographically distributed team members
• Familiar in designing mobile phone apps (Android and iOS) and web-based services
• Must have a user-centric approach to design, incorporating insights from research and product analytics into the design
• Experience with conducting user testing and considering product analytics to drive design
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present ideas and concepts to Product Managers and other stakeholders

Must have technical/professional qualifications

Candidates must have a University degree or equivalent qualification in graphic design, fine art, digital media, product design, industrial design or equivalent and an excellent portfolio to demonstrate their design skills

Key performance indicators

• Impact to product metrics as part of a squad
• Improvement in customer experience as measured by customer feedback and product analytics
• Quality and timely delivery of design deliverables to product owners and UI designers

#GroupResourcing

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

As our client base continues to grow, we are looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to join our creative and progressive design and development team.

We are looking for someone who has a blend of design skills, from strategic designing thinking through to beautifully crafted user interfaces. As a UX/UI designer at Fresh Egg, you will be responsible for delivering best-in-class design solutions which help drive our clients forward and deliver a seamless experience for their users.

You will be a natural problem solver, often working closely with clients in a workshop environment to uncover their challenges and collaboratively creating solutions that meet business, user and technology needs.

At Fresh Egg, we strongly believe that design shouldn’t be undertaken in a silo and that working collaboratively with other specialist teams will always deliver the best solution. You will have a strong understanding of the importance of a user-centred design methodology and show experience working in this way.

A large part of the role will be working closely with our development teams (both front and backend developers).

At Fresh Egg, we have a strong belief that design shouldn’t happen in a silo and that working collaboratively with other team members will always deliver the best solution. In addition to our design and development team, you will also work collaboratively with our conversion services, user research, SEO, strategy and content teams.

Fresh Egg is among the leading digital marketing agencies in the UK. Our mission is to uncover customer challenges and transform them into digital success. We don’t employ cogs to fit into a machine; we employ exceptional individuals who can consistently outperform expectations.

Skills, knowledge and experience

• 5 years + of industry experience
• A strong portfolio of work that demonstrates user-centred design practices
• An excellent eye for detail when it comes to pixel-perfect UI design
• A strong understanding of Atomic Design and working with Design Systems
• A strong understanding of accessibility standards within digital design
• Strong knowledge and awareness of new digital trends and the ability to think outside the box to challenge existing conventions in design
• A love for branding and be passionate about bringing a brand to life through digital products and services
• Experience in or a desire to lead design workshops with clients
• You must have experience in providing accurate quoting and time estimations of work to drive maximum profitability for the business
• Ability to work well as part of a team, be open and transparent with other colleagues

Desirable skills (would be great, but not essential)

• Other digital design/technical skills such as motion graphics, 3D or video
• Experience work with the Google Ventures ‘Design Sprint’ methodology
• User research experience and skills
• Experience designing for A/B and Multivariate testing

The design team at Canonical is looking for a User Experience designer, expert in current design thinking with an appetite for technology and innovation.

Remote role (EMEA time zone required) with good travel opportunities, predominantly to the US and Europe. Great benefits on offer too.

About us

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, internet of things and hyperscale computing, central to modern tech from development to production.

Our design team, centred in Europe, has specialists in visual and UX design, and front and back end development. We collaborate, as product design squads, with global distributed development engineering teams.

We count on our team to bring together deep design-thinking, technical domain knowledge, with great instincts, through a rigorous process – to shape products for a very demanding audience. You’ll fit in if you have equal appetites for design, innovation and technology.

Read more about the design team >

About you

You are passionate about taking on complex design challenges meeting user needs and you enjoy working with the design team and teams across Canonical to deliver on the strategic vision for the company. You should have some experience as a user experience designer in either agency, company or freelance environments.

You will be working closely with other user experience and visual designers, front and back-end developers, and project management, as part of the design team, reporting to the Head of UX under the Design Director.

What you will be doing

You will be part of a team working on web applications for enterprise cloud services, IoT and embedded devices, bringing exciting new projects to life and improving existing ones.

• You will plan and conduct research with target users and stakeholders from the business to identify and document users’ needs and requirements as well as business requirements and KPIs
• You will provide sketches on paper, wireframes, information architecture, prototypes and detailed specifications for implementation teams and for testing purposes.
• You will work with developers to communicate and evaluate designs through to implementation - keeping a constant and open communication channel and ensuring products are delivered to a high standard.
• We try as much as we can to share our experiences and knowledge within the team and to the community through informal presentations, the design blog and other events.

Required skills and experience

• Ability to create great looking wireframes that work across a variety of form factors
• Keenness for exploring alternative options and iterating designs based on input and feedback from the team, stakeholders, and users
• Aptitude for working at different levels of fidelity, taking an initial idea from sketches to final detailed artwork, and everything in between
• Desire to work collaboratively with team members across different disciplines
• Ability to articulate clearly and effectively your design decisions to team members, engineers and stakeholders
• Ability to work in an agile way and manage your own workload to deliver designs to agreed timescales
• Proficiency in using your preferred design and prototyping tools
• Basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 2~4 years experience in a similar role

What we offer

• Opportunity to help shape a company and products with strong influence in the open source community
• A fantastic work environment within a team of friendly people with a broad range of skill sets, from UX and visual designers to researchers and engineers
• Opportunity to create work that will potentially be seen by millions of people
• Remote role (EMEA time zone required) with good travel opportunities, predominantly to the US and Europe. Great benefits on offer too.
• Benefits package, including cycle to work scheme, pension scheme and health insurance

Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world class software and services which meet the world’s computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We’re supporting our clients as they adapt to a new world in the wake of COVID-19. We’re now recruiting for roles which will help our clients to deliver vital services and to resume business wherever possible.

Reporting into the Software Development Director and serving as a key member of the Delivery team, this position’s primary responsibility is business analysis of software with a focus on user experience design in an Agile environment working with multiple distributed (near and off shore) teams.

The role holder will be an experienced user-experience (UX) designer, able to understand our business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes.

Job Description

This role is predominately home based with office work mainly for collaboration and innovation sessions and all our core product, development, operations and sales teams are also home based. Synaptic operate with a mixed offshore team model, and work closely with colleagues based in Capita Global Delivery Centres.

User Experience Design and Development

• Working within the guidelines provided for UI, to design UX elements of the user journey through our software
• Be the guardian of user experience throughout all areas of the products, both in terms of greenfield activity and improvement in legacy applications
• Creation of wireframes, user flows and user interface functional specifications working closely with both product and delivery teams
• Be the subject matter expert in user experience studies, research and latest developments – and share that knowledge with colleagues
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

Technical Business Analysis

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings
• Performing requirements analysis based on collaboration with both external clients and colleagues within the organisation
• Documenting and communicating your analysis findings through Agile process such as refinement sessions, kick-off meetings and project inception workshops
• Creation of User Stories and Acceptance criteria to map from stakeholder requirements into definable work packages for the delivery team
• Finding ways to fit requirements to the limitations of existing software and systems

What we’re looking for

• An interest in working in fin-tech
• Demonstrable expertise in standard UX software e.g. Axure, InVision, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills/knowledge are a plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
• A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
• Expose to working in Agile software development environments
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centred design and design thinking.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies
• Ability to bring together people with wildly different viewpoints and cultural values
• Ability to create the bigger picture and communicate to internal and external audience

About Synaptic

Synaptic delivers a variety of fin-tech solutions to the financial services marketplace across protection (insurance) and investments (wealth management).

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

What we hope you’ll do next

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

All interviews, assessments and background checks will continue to take place online, to completely remove the need for face-to-face contact. All Capita colleagues who can work from home should do so; and where it is not possible for colleagues to work remotely, we have taken important steps to protect those working from Capita’s offices. Social distancing, enhanced hygiene and safety measures are already in place at all Capita locations that are open to protect our colleagues and manage the risk of COVID-19. The welfare of our people is of paramount importance to us, and we’re doing everything we can to keep our colleagues and customers safe during this time.

Design at Elsevier

The Elsevier design team is a cross-discipline group of over 70 designers in Asia, Europe, and the US working across a wide range of digital information products and tools. We sit amongst and work closely with product managers, developers, and QAs in a fast-paced Agile environment. We champion the best UCD and product development practices. Our work is firmly grounded in user research.

We hope you can help us scale and improve our practices even further.

What’s in it for you

• Help advance science, solve real-world problems, and work with inspirational users.
• Work in a complex problem space to design effective tools that bring together academic authors, reviewers, and editors.
• Work on strategically important initiatives.
• Be part of a supportive team with an innovative design culture.
• Grow as a designer through coaching, training, and an established UX career development programme.

The role as a Lead UX Designer

At Elsevier, we are developing new tools to improve the experience of submitting scientific articles and getting them published. This is a top priority for our business, and you will be a key member of a team of twelve designers doing the research and design work to help us achieve our ambitious goals.

You will be the lead designer for one of the product areas, working in close partnership with our product and technology leadership. You will also manage three other designers and lead initiatives to improve our overall design processes.

In a typical week, you will participate in agile ceremonies with your squad, plan or carry out discovery work on new concepts, create and deliver final designs for production, coach your direct reports, and work with other designers to deliver the best article-submission experience for our users.

What you’ll be doing as a Lead UX Designer

• Lead design work on one of the products areas of publishing submissions, working closely with stakeholders to drive product strategy and prioritise design work.
• Run workshops, ideate and prototype quickly, produce detailed design deliverables, and work alongside product managers, developers and QAs to ship your designs into production.
• Ensure that the product you design meets user needs, is aligned with wider product and business goals, and is in line with our front-end and back-end technologies.
• Champion users throughout the design process. Develop a deep understanding of user needs through interviews and other research methods. Share insights with your team. Build empathy for users across the organisation.
• Have line management responsibilities for three designers. Provide regular feedback, coaching, and performance appraisals as needed, and support them in their career development.
• Create concept designs for new products and take them from discovery to implementation.
• Lead the work to make the article-submissions experience, which spans multiple products, more consistent and coherent.
• Collaborate with designers on different products across Elsevier to align experiences.
• Build good working relationships with product and technology staff at all levels to ensure strategic alignment and effective working processes.
• Proactively improve how the Elsevier design team works by exploring new tools and design processes and sharing them with other designers.
• Assist with the recruitment and on-boarding of new designers as needed.

What we’re looking for as a Lead UX Designer

• You have at least five years design experience and a broad design skillset with strong skills in user experience and user interface design.
• You have a strong portfolio showing experience designing shipped products and services (not just websites) that meet user needs, product requirements, and business goals.
• You have hands-on experience planning, conducting, and analysing user research and usability testing.
• You have experience of working on design systems or developing a common design language to unify the user experience across products.
• You have great attention to detail and can produce high-fidelity designs and prototypes using tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Invision.
• You know how design fits in an Agile environment and can work closely with product managers, developers, and QAs.
• You are an excellent communicator who can present and explain the rationale behind designs to a wide range of stakeholders.
• You are motivated, proactive, flexible, pragmatic, and good at time management and prioritisation. You want to make things better. You find solutions to problems. You understand how to produce real-world designs given time and technical constraints.
• (Nice to have) Line management experience
• (Nice to have) Experience working in-house in a large organisation.
• (Nice to have) Experience working with academics or researchers.

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical knowledge. Our mission is to help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society.

Using innovative technology, we deliver information and analytics through tools that help our users make breakthroughs. We publish 18% of the world’s scientific articles. Over 18 million monthly users visit ScienceDirect, the world’s largest database dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research. Over 2 million monthly users use the Mendeley Reference Manager app to organise and read academic research.

Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. If a qualified individual with a disability or disabled veteran needs a reasonable accommodation to use or access our online system, that individual should please contact [email protected] or if you are based in the US you may also contact us on 1.855.833.5120.

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Overview of the role and team structure

We’re looking for a Product Designer to join the Product Design team in our London Office.

You’ll be working alongside a fully empowered squad of engineers, researchers, product managers, with support from and access to relevant stakeholders from around the FT such as editorial, marketing,

You’ll help deliver end-to-end product experiences, from exploratory research into opportunity definition, from ideation into concepting, from testing into shipping, measuring and iterating.

You’ll receive regular guidance and support from your squad, your line manager, our Director of Product design, and of course the whole Product Design team. We work hard to foster a safe environment where we share and discuss our work proactively, to inspire, support and guide each other.

We have a transparent, measureable progression framework, which outlines all of the skills FT Product Designers need, and details how to progress in each skill category. We use this as a basis for your biannual reviews, where you’ll self assess against the progression framework, track progression, and agree areas of focus with your line manager.

We invest in our people to allow them to grow both personally and professionally whilst working at The FT. We offer a variety of ways in which you can progress your career with us, some of which are highlighted below:

• Career coaching - Career coaching is time spent focused on you and how you can achieve your career aspirations.
• Mentoring programme - The mentoring programme aims to connect people across the business to support professional and personal growth through knowledge sharing and guidance.
• Learning and development - The FT offers a host of learning and development opportunities that will not only help you build the skills you need to grow in your profession or field, but will also help you improve your own personal development, with courses such as self-coaching, productivity, presentation confidence, research techniques and much more.

What you’ll be doing

Week to week, you’ll be:

• **Planning and prioritising. **You’ll have an equal stake in your squad’s direction. You’ll always be learning, planning and prioritising your areas of focus and approach together.
• Researching and learning about users. Defining and participating in user research and testing, together with Researchers. Digging into data with Analysts, to understand and measure behaviours. Working with editorial to understand content theory and process.
• **Analysing products. **Conducting competitor and comparator analysis. Reviewing existing journeys and features. you will explore ways of improving and innovating our experience.
• Empathy and experience mapping. Understanding user mindsets, motivations and expectations. Mapping experiences, journeys and flows, to help us unearth and prioritise pain points and opportunities.
• **Ideating. **Working with your squad to generate and prioritise ideas. Planning and facilitating co-creation sprints and workshops
• Concepting and exploring. Developing loose ideas into concepts. Working with your squad to evolve and prioritise those concepts.
• Testing and learning fast. Using a variety of testing approaches and techniques; card sorting, low and high fidelity prototypes, fake-door tests, multivariate testing, and shipping into the live environment to learn.
• Measuring and prioritising. Measuring experiments with your squad. Abandoning unsuccessful concepts, and evolving successful ones.
• Influencing the design system. Designing new components, patterns, layouts, flows and interactions which will feed back into our design system and component library.
• **Evolving! **We strive to continually improve and evolve. Evolving our process by adding new techniques and abandoning obsolete ones. Evolving our product until we achieve objectives, rather than stopping once we’ve shipped.

What we’re looking for from you

• We welcome applications from people who can demonstrate strong end-to-end product design competencies. You’ll have shipped multiple features and iterations, perhaps across several products. You’ll probably have been a practicing product designer for 2+ years.
• We’d like to see a portfolio which helps us understand your Product Design approach and experience. Ideally the portfolio would tell us about the approach you took and what you learned, rather than only showcasing final designs.
• Experience in digital events, communities and learning programmes. Customer journey analysis, on boarding, forms, identification of new opportunities within the community programme.
• A desire to learn, and hone your craft. You’ll be surrounded by talented designers, product managers, researchers, engineers, etc. We cultivate an environment where everyone shares and learns from each other. It helps us all improve.

Package and benefits

Our benefits vary depending on location, but we are committed to providing best in class perks across all our offices as well as an inclusive environment to develop your career. Examples of our benefits include;

• **Competitive Salary **
• Holidays & Flexible Working - Employees receive 25 days holiday annually, extending to 30 after two years. You can organise flexible working arrangements with your line manager.
• Employee Wellbeing - This service includes a 24-hour professional advice and counselling phone line. Employees can also access up to six face to face counselling sessions.
• FT Pension plan - The FT will double your pension contributions. You can contribute up to 6% of your salary if you are 44 and under, and up to 8% from aged 45 and over.
• Cycle to work scheme - This scheme provides employees with a tax-free bike through salary sacrifice.
• Charity matching - If you take part in a sponsored event or raise money for charity, the FT will match donations up to £500 per employee per year.

Full details of our benefits can be found here.

About the FT

The Financial Times is a trusted guide to an increasingly fragmented world. We are one of the world’s most influential news organisations, recognised internationally for our authority, integrity and accuracy. We help the world make better choices. We influence leaders and shape the leaders of the future. Our fearless, intelligent reporting makes the difference in thousands of decisions around the world every day. Our digital products are in the pockets of prime ministers, presidents and chief executives. We hold powerful institutions to account. We shine a light in dark places. We move markets. We are the FT.

About FT Product and Technology

The FT is as much a product and technology company as it is a journalism company. Much of our recent success has come from innovation in our digital products and services and we know that our future success will depend on it. Product and Technology is composed of 400 people, split across three organisations: product, technology and delivery. Since 2016 we have been led by Chief Product and Information Officer Cait O’Riordan. Don’t expect a stuffy finance environment. We come from all walks of life and all kinds of different backgrounds and we bring ourselves to work.

Learn more about the FT, including announcements and career opportunities, at aboutus.ft.com.

Equal opportunities

The FT are committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

We also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accomodated.

Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please contact a member of our HR team who will be happy to help.

Player Research is the premier partner for games user research.

Hundreds of game development studios rely on our insights into usability, UX, appeal and play.

From our Brighton and Montreal studios we design and conduct award-winning UX research for video games: usability testing, expert reviews, engagement diaries, training courses… and so much more. Our clients are passionate developers seeking to understand their players to deliver affective and engaging gaming experiences.

We’re looking for experienced games user researchers to join our teams. You’ll find our broad range of clients, stakeholders and research questions to be invigorating. And you’ll find our work environment to be collegiate, adaptable, and inviting.

We’re seeking experienced games user researchers to join our studios in the UK and Canada

All our researchers are generalists. Their full-time job is the execution of varied user research studies that improve commercial video games. With increasing experience comes responsibilities for mentorship of peers, project ownership, research strategy consulting with clients, methodology design, and personal specialisation.

Our staff are a healthy mix of expert practitioners and academics, of ambitious career-starters and seasoned professionals. Experienced games user researchers—like you—bring unique perspectives and learnings to help us grow, and offer even richer insight to our client studios. In return, Player Research provides a stable and vibrant workplace to conduct the most fulfilling work of your career.

Who do we work with? Game developers, publishers, platform owners, incubators, universities… As an external research studio we collaborate far and wide. You’ll benefit from the long-term relationships we’ve forged with our key partners, while also having opportunities to develop fresh relationships with studios taking their first steps in player-centric development.

Around one third of our projects are commissioned by games user research teams inside studios or publishers

Our projects come in all shapes and sizes from usability testing to anti-toxicity research; game console UI to toys-to-life; AAA full-playthroughs to rapid expert evaluations for indies. Our consultant researchers are brought to the heart of design decision-making in projects of all types, be that spanning years of development or as one-off research engagements.

Although we collaborate with studios big and small, it’s noted that we choose not to contribute to real money gambling, nor adult entertainment games.

Every month we welcome new clients; each places their trust in Player Research to guide their creative and commercial vision

We are exceptionally proud of our decade-long reputation for authenticity, transparency and rigour. And we’d love to make you a part of it.

Whether you have one year or ten years of experience under your belt, we think you’ll find professional and personal fulfilment in joining our team.

Core Responsibilities

As an experienced Games User Researcher you’ll work with a wide-range of studios to design and execute research. From one-off studies to development-spanning campaigns of research, you’ll deliver world-leading games user research as part of our team.

The day-to-day involves:

• Designing, scoping, managing and executing qualitative user research in collaboration with our wide array of partner studios
• Working alongside our Operations and Client Relations teams as a consultant. You’ll advise our partner studios on research approaches that will deliver them actionable and affordable insights
• Capitalising on every research project to share your knowledge with your peers, and try new things
• Applying your prior experience and unique research interests to diversify the insight we offer to our partner studios
• Capturing your knowledge in training materials, articles, talks, and mentoring your colleagues
• Applying yourself to the continuous improvement of yourself through training, writing, and evaluating video game UX
• Using your initiative to improve our processes for the benefit of colleagues and clients
• You’ll have two managers: a regional People Manager and a global Head of Research Craft, ensuring your professional and technical growth respectively

And depending on your research experience and personal goals, you should also be:

• Owning the development of new approaches and offerings
• Owning key client relations to be the trusted point-of-contact for advice and consultancy
• Speaking, writing and educating the world on the importance of games user research
• Compiling long-form research strategies to answer our partner studio’s strategic needs
• Writing and conducting training sessions, both internal-facing and client-facing

Experience Requirements

We are pleased to offer visa sponsorship to support international applicants for this role. Please identify on your application whether or not you have an existing right to work.

Requirements for our Brighton Applicants

For those with an existing legal right to work in the UK: One or more years experience in user research.

Or, for those without an existing right to work in the UK: Two or more years industry research experience plus professional-level spoken and written English (further information on immigration to the UK).

If you meet the foundational criteria for both locations, please outline your preference in your application.

Location and Starting

• For immediate start, but we’re willing to wait for the right candidate
• The candidate can be located in Brighton (UK) or Montreal (Canada), post-pandemic
• Our offices and playtest labs in both regions are presently closed to in-person research and will remain so until post-vaccine
• Permanent remote working is regrettably not feasible: empirical studies in our secure playtesting facilities are central to the operations of our research. We’ll resume them post-vaccine, when it’s safe to do so
• Flexible working from home is feasible for several of our research methodologies and portions of empirical studies too

Salary, Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salaries, in line with regional games user research roles
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Life insurance
• Pension plan
• Income protection plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Optional subsidised private medical cover
• State-of-the-art research labs in Brighton and Montreal
• Relocation support for yourself and family
• Region-specific perks and benefits
• Friendly, inclusive teams with a range of interests and activities to join

In addition to base salary we include a modest personal/company performance-based annual bonus, and a host of perks specific to each region.

Brighton and Montreal are each beautiful cities, with vibrant game development communities, and afford a great standard of living.

To Apply

Brighton: Please submit your CV and covering letter outlining your career goals to [email protected]

If you meet the foundational criteria for both locations, you’re welcome to apply to both positions. Please highlight on both your application emails that you’ve applied to the other also.

We’ll arrange a short *‘get to know you’ *meeting as a first step.

The closing date for this role is Monday 24th May 2021. We will confirm receipt of your application, but most applicant communication will occur after the closing date.

Stand out and be passionate. Good luck.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, in line with regional games user research roles
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Life insurance
• Pension plan
• Income protection plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Optional subsidised private medical cover
• State-of-the-art research labs in Brighton and Montre

Company Description

Merkle is a leading data-driven, technology-enabled, global performance marketing agency that specialises in the delivery of unique, personalised customer experiences across platforms and devices. We call it ‘people-based’ marketing, and with over 25 years’ experience, we are proud to be recognised as a global leader.

Merkle’s heritage in data, technology and analytics is the foundation for our understanding of consumer insights that drives our people-based marketing strategies. Combined with our expertise in performance creative and media, we can then offer our clients content-driven, contextual and compelling customer experiences that drive business growth.

In 2016, the agency joined dentsu, one of the world’s biggest media companies to form the Customer Experience Management (CXM) Line of Business.

Job Description

The Role

Merkle is looking to introduce a UX/UI Designer to join its Digital Experience team to support the UX/UI design and delivery for creating digital experiences for clients. In creating best in class work, Merkle looks to use data to personalise experiences, and balance design with performance.

The role entails working across Strategy, UX and UI design disciplines, to create high performance digital experiences. Including customer journey mapping, site maps, high fidelity UX/UI designs, wireframes, interactive prototypes & usability testing.

Life as a UX/UI Designer at Merkle

• Work across a diverse range of projects, clients and industries.
• Deliver across the full UX/UI spectrum of strategy, insight, innovation, creation, testing and optimisation.
• Understand consumer needs, perform competitive analysis, user testing and develop insight to aid in the development of the digital experience strategy and inform design decisions.
• Visualise concepts to represent user journeys, personas, goals and information models.
• Conceptualize and develop design solutions, wireframes and interactive prototypes to depict proposed functionality to customers. Ensure solutions are robust, well thought out and that design decisions have been based on best practice, facts and evidence.
• Interface with clients, refine requirements, guide developers and project managers in all aspects of design and UX/UI processes.
• Work with optimisation teams and data specialists to develop testing and optimisation plans to further improve designs.
• Further enhance your knowledge and experience with training, conferences, events.

A few of the benefits

Whether it’s the joy of working with people at the top of their game or the Merkle social calendar, people love working here – and we hope you will too

• Career development through Merkle University and other tools; with access to courses, textbooks and mentorship
• Private Medical Insurance, Company Pension, life insurance and other corporate benefits
• A selection of other benefits including ability to buy additional holiday, season ticket loan and 2 volunteer days

Diversity & Inclusion

At Merkle, we believe that a diverse and inclusive environment improves us as a community and as a business. We want to foster an environment of growth, where ideas and contributions are actively encouraged. We need this culture of courage to continue to thrive in our fast-paced industry.

We have created seven Diversity and Inclusion Pillars. Each pillar is made up of a community of members who serve as role models and spread a message of inclusion throughout our global workplace. Pillar members are responsible for planning initiatives, events and training, along with championing change within our business. These pillars are Gender, Ethnicity, Mental Health, Religion, Disability, LGBT+, Parents & Carers.

Merkle is a place that embraces differences of opinion. To be an advocate for real change we really encourage applications from women, candidates with disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as we recognise that these groups are currently underrepresented in our marketing/technology industry.

Qualifications:

What we are looking for in you

• UX/UI specialist with experience and passion for delivering high quality digital experiences across websites & apps, including personalised data driven experiences.
• Circa 3 years strong UX/UI work experience which can be demonstrated through examples of relevant best in class work, developed whilst at comparable roles within a leading brand, design and build agency and/or management consultancy.
• Highly competent in core web design and working with Experience Platforms, such as AEM, Sitecore, Episerver.
• A strong background in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps.
• Leading and participating in client workshops to define the strategy and customer experience.
• Experience with mapping user stories, customer journeys and research as part of the design process. Including but not limited to desk research, user testing, A/B & multi-variant testing.
• Competent in the use of leading wireframe / prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch and Invision.
• Understanding and experience of working in software development lifecycles and with agile development processes is essential
• Previous team management and resourcing experience required along with leading projects that require co-ordination across cross functional teams to deliver.
• General business management experience also required on managing budgets, leading client engagements, team management.
• Commercially aware with an understanding of ROI and online marketing metrics.
• Excellent communication and presentation skill, and comfortable leading stakeholder workshops and influencing clients.

Additional Information

At the point of application, the candidate must have the legal right to work in the UK as we are unable to sponsor visas as this time.

*Merkle does not discriminate against job applicants on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Experience stipulated in this job description serves as a guide only and all applications will be considered on their merits, irrespective of experience. *

As part of our Diversity and Inclusion agenda, and as an Equal Opportunities employer, if you require reasonable adjustments during the selection process please engage directly with your Recruiter.

This is IXICO

IXICO is a fast growing and profitable medical data analytics company, providing data management and advanced analytics to the pharmaceutical clinical trials market. Established in 2004 and listed as a public company in 2013, IXICO has established itself as a trusted partner to the global pharmaceutical industry developing new therapies for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease.

Our purpose is to advance medicine and human health by turning data into clinically meaningful information, providing valuable new insights in neuroscience. We will focus on developing and deploying breakthrough data analytics through our remote access technology platform.

We are guided by our “4A” values:

• Aspiration
• Ability
• Agility
• Accountability

These are at the heart of our culture and empower our people to directly contribute to achieving our goal to be a leading proponent of artificial intelligence in clinical drug development. We recognise that we will succeed in realising our purpose and achieving our goal only by bringing together the diverse set of skills needed to innovate and develop cutting-edge technologies, and by building an inclusive culture to continuously enhance our service offering to support our customers’ scientific endeavours.

As our great team continues to grow we are looking to hire a UI/UX Designer (Contractor) in a full-time capacity initially for 6-months.

Role Requirements

IXICO is looking for an experienced UI/UX designer (Contractor) who is passionate about the entire process of designing end-to-end user journeys.

The post-holder will understand the importance of user-centred design and have a firm grasp of user research and business analysis, to champion interface design and good UX practice. The post-holder will work closely with the Product Owner, Business Analysts, Technologists, Scientists, Project Managers, Image Analysts, Site Management, and other system users to develop efficient, innovative experiences for our internal and external users.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate the product vision by creating user-centric designs for multiple user roles of an extensive web-based application
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences and journeys
• Work closely with business stakeholders to fully understand requirements
• Present your ideas to stakeholders from different business functions and with varied technical backgrounds
• Be an evangelist for the use of design methodologies along the entire solution development lifecycle
• Collaborate with the team to develop design concepts, wireframes, prototypes and other UX/UI design deliverables
• Support and conduct user research and usability testing
• Represent internal and external users at design reviews
• Maintain and update prototypes and wireframes during development and obtain early feedback on these from users
• Ensure that consistent design approaches and styling are maintained.

Qualifications and skills required for the role

Essential

• Commercial experience as a digital UI/UX Designer
• Experience of user-centred design principles
• Experience of common UX design tools
• Strong knowledge of usability, standards, and best practices
• Knowledge of web technologies - HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• The ability to create persona-based journeys
• Experience with visual and interaction design tools
• Experience with usability testing
• Knowledge and experience of responsive design
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Analytical, results focused with excellent problem-solving ability
• Pro-active and adaptable team player with a can-do attitude
• Ability to prioritise workloads and requirements
• Strong growth mindset and work ethic
• Excellent communication skills (Fluent in the English language – both orally and written).
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or previous exceptional experience working within a UX/UI design role

Desirable

• Online portfolio with examples of previous work
• Experience in producing high fidelity mock-ups
• Experience in working closely with Agile Development Teams.

Benefits

• Generous employer pension contribution,
• 25 days annual leave, increasing up to 28 days with every year at IXICO,
• Annual salary review and discretionary company bonus scheme,
• Life Assurance scheme,
• Various discounts in retail, food & drink and entertainment through our benefit portal,
• Work in an industry where you make a difference every single day.

How to Apply

IXICO is working hard to create a representative, inclusive and super-friendly team, because we believe different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds make a better workplace, and ultimately better services.

IXICO doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced UI/UX Designer (Contractor) to thrive in an engaging and fast-paced environment, to make a difference on an every day basis.

If you think IXICO should meet you, please send us your CV and covering letter by email to [email protected]. We are looking forward to your application. Please note that due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation our entire business is operating remotely. If you have got any questions about this please reach out to our careers team.

Please note that IXICO will process the data provided by you only in order to perform the outlined recruitment exercise. For more details on what data we process and on what legal basis this happens please view our Recruitment Privacy Policy or contact [email protected].

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

As a UX Designer at Vocalink you will be responsible for the customer experience of a new iteration of one of the world’s leading B2B payment solutions. This role would be working on the UX for multiple projects intended to form part of the national banking infrastructure for numerous countries worldwide. As part of a cross-disciplinary agile team you will be working alongside Product Managers, Product Owners and within a wider UX team in a highly collaborative environment.

The ideal candidate will be a methodical and thorough UX designer who also has solid research skills. The candidate is required to have demonstrable experience conducting user research/usability testing along with the ability to run workshops, create detailed prototypes, journey maps and other deliverables to help communicate their ideas. They will be working collaboratively with a Lead UX researcher to deliver user research/usability testing and apply insights. They will need to be able to quickly get to grips with complex requirements and payments jargon to understand how best to simplify the user journey for our customers.

This role may also be involved in other projects from time to time, helping facilitate workshops, planning / executing user research projects in new markets, or building prototypes to demonstrate innovative new payment technologies.

Role

• Providing UX expertise within an agile product team
• Empathise with B2B customers problems and leverage user research to capture and understand real-world user needs
• An inquisitive, natural problem solver with the ability to find simple solutions to complex problems
• Provide support to other team members and work in a highly collaborative way within our UX team
• Advocate of user centred design, understands the importance of qualitative and quantitative research
• Participating in regular design critiques with the team
• Work closely with BAs, developers and the product owner promoting the needs of the user

All About You

We’re looking for someone with the following skills, knowledge and experience:

• Commercial experience in User Experience Design
• Proven experience delivering a high standard of output in fast paced, enterprise organisations
• Experience working in a Lean / Agile methodology
• Collaborative and pragmatic approach to their work
• Experience communicating with diverse stakeholders
• Advanced skills in Axure, Sketch, Invision

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Who We Are

Sensor Tower is the leading solution for mobile marketers, app developers, and industry analysts who demand superior competitive insights into the mobile market economy.

We serve independent and Fortune 500 customers alike, spanning the mobile games, travel & hospitality, music, finance, and broadcast entertainment markets. Our suite of products consist of free, “SMB”, and Enterprise-tiered solutions including Store Intelligence, Usage Intelligence, Ad Intelligence, and App Intelligence.

We are a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco and was a member of AngelPad’s startup incubator program in 2013. Our insights are cited by the world’s leading news and finance publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, and Reuters.

Role Summary

The UX designer will be the first UX hire at Sensor Tower. You will be responsible for improving the accessibility and affordances of Sensor Tower’s powerful mobile app market data. As our UX designer, you excel in data visualization, web design fundamentals, and data-driven design.

Sensor Tower has developed extremely powerful data measuring the performance of mobile apps, and our frontend web product has a huge amount of surface area. You will have a major impact on high visibility sitewide projects like navigation and new graphs. You will ultimately establish the UX function at Sensor Tower.

Responsibilities

• Interview users about pain points and workflows on the Sensor Tower frontend product
• Conduct usability testing
• Create wire flows and sitemaps to help improve navigation and information architecture
• Design new graphs and data visualizations for new estimates generated by the Data Science team such as user spend across mobile app categories, adoption of mobile SDKs, geographic trends for app usage
• Generate mock-ups to hand off to the frontend engineering team

Requirements

• 5-10 years of professional experience (preferably with a B2B or SaaS startup)
• College degree in Design or Human Computer Interaction (HCI) preferred
• Familiarity with analytics tools like Amplitude and how that data can inform design problems
• Experience with design tools (we use Figma)
• Full-stack design experience, comfortable moving a project from Research to UX to UI

Why Join Sensor Tower?

Our Background

We were named one of the 50 Tech Companies to Know in 2020 and Best Midsize Companies to Work For 2021 by BuiltIn.

After seven years of building Sensor Tower off of $1MM (Seed, 2013), we’re excited to announce our $45MM growth investment. Read more about it here, in the words of our co-founders.

We have a birds-eye view of the entire mobile app ecosystem, and we keep our teams constantly abreast of the latest mobile app trends, news, and best practices.

Our Values

Sensor Tower’s Core Values: Customer-Focused, Innovative, Continuously Learning, Action-Oriented, Respectful, Data & Metrics-Driven.

We grant options to all of our employees because we recognize that everybody plays an integral role in our success; thus all employees should be invested in Sensor Tower (both figuratively and literally).

Our Benefits

We offer unlimited PTO, Health and Wellness stipends, flexible work hours, 401K, team trips (white water rafting, Hawaii, and weekend Tahoe mansion trips to name a few), and more.

Our Covid-19 Specific benefits include: Stipend to set up your home office and/or gym, WiFi stipend, daily UberEats delivery stipend, and virtual team events.

Sensor Tower is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Reporting of the Role

This role reports to Lead Product Designer, Technology & Digital

Overview of job

We are looking for an experienced, hand’s on UX Designer to join a small product design team that sits in the wider digital team of product, development, content, analytics, video and social. You will be designing consumer facing products that communicate our brands and delight and engage our users.

The role is semi-autonomous, meaning you will have strong influence over some big and important products and an opportunity to really make them your own. We are looking for someone who is going to settle into the role with long-term dedication and really relish this challenge. We are a friendly and close-knit team and work in a highly collaborative, agile environment.

3 best things about the job

• Working across all product platforms to deliver news and entertainment content for big consumer brands on radio, podcast, playlist and catch-up services to millions of users on iOS, Android, Web, Social, TV and Smart Speakers.
• Getting involved in the end-to-end Product Design and research process and having the opportunity to develop your skills in all areas.
• Having the chance to make your mark and really shape the future of our flagship digital products.

Measures of success

In the first few months, you would have

• Delivered research and designed live and developing new product features and services in collaboration with our skilled team.
• Fully understood and contributed to our digital design system.
• Established strong working relationships with teams across Technology, Insights, Commercial, Marketing and beyond.

Responsibilities of the role

• Design delightful, usable, engaging on-brand user experiences as part of an integrated Product, Design, and Development team on our consumer facing digital products.
• Define user flows, site-maps, templates, interaction models, UI design and specification, design system modular approach and design prototypes.
• Identify and articulate user needs, build prototypes to test internally and through external user research, and refine solutions in the face of data and other findings.
• Contribute to the definition and creation of flexible, coherent design systems and component libraries.
• Adapt designs based on feedback from internal partners, data research and user feedback, generating multiple design explorations and design iterations.
• Understand brand strategy and the dynamics of assigned brands. Translate or extend the brand identity system to digital touchpoints. This also extends to brand artwork and digital graphic design on occasion.
• You will need an ability to work on a number of projects at any time and be positive and personable in your communications with confidence in communicating ideas and designs to teams and partners.

What you will need

The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:

• You’ll know how to use industry standard design tools (i.e. Sketch, Invision, Miro, Adobe Creative Cloud, Keynote).
• Experience in analytic and research tools such as Goggle analytics or equivalent. Applications such as use Userzoom or UserZoom Go, Optimal Workshop and Toluna would be ideal and an interest in selecting future testing tools based on requirements.
• You’ll have proven experience in designing products and features for some or all of these areas: native apps (iOS/Android), desktop and responsive web, smart speakers and TV interface.
• Experience in working in an agile development team environment, with confidence of how your design role fits into this collaborative dynamic.
• Passion for identifying, measuring, analysing and solving real user problems with demonstrable experience in the technologies and techniques required for conducting analytical & user research.
• Solid intuition and a passion for detailed interaction design and how that translates for the brands.
• Understanding of the balance required between flexibility and conviction, knowing when each approach is appropriate in a wider project context, alongside the ability to know which practical approach is best to tackle particular problems – i.e. when a quick sketch will do or when a detailed prototype is needed.
• Experience and passion for creating, extending and maintaining component libraries across different platforms, products and brands – we are looking for a modular problem solver.
• Experience with and enjoyment of working on large, ongoing, in-house projects.
• Ability to prioritize work, communicate progress and deliver on time.
• A passion for audio products and their potential.

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that different will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

Although we cannot make guarantees, we welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Global

Overview

We are seeking an experienced product designer to deliver user-centric designs for Web, iOS and Android on Gumtree. As a Product Designer, you will build design solutions using best practices and established UX methodologies, helping shape and deliver the best products for our customers. You will be responsible for working within the team to execute outstanding UX through customer insight and forward-thinking choreography throughout the user journey.

You will be a part of the growing and highly creative design/product team, working alongside other designers, product managers, engineers and senior stakeholders. You will delve into the world of our customers and understand their needs and expectations. You will share your approach within the design team and with stakeholders across the wider team. You will be responsible for crafting intuitive and inspiring user experiences for our customers, engaging them to buy and sell on Gumtree.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within an experienced and energetic team to drive Gumtree’s ambitions as the UK’s leading classifieds site.

Key responsibilities

• Articulate a UX design rationale that helps inform our product strategy and deliver our key objectives
• Work closely with the product design team, product managers and engineers to define, drive and execute visual design direction and elements for Gumtree
• Explore a variety of user experience design directions in a rapid iterative fashion, incorporating feedback from users and other members of the team
• Execute and test designs that span the whole product lifecycle from concept through to production using sketches, wireframes, low and hi-fidelity comps, user and interaction flows, lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes, specs, guidelines and production-ready assets
• Design execution and delivery within a dedicated squad using agile principles and methods
• Provide input into experiments that help the team learn and iterate, including hypothesis led multivariate testing
• Lead a workstream of user research and continuous discovery
• Synthesise findings to help build a clear picture of customer needs and behaviours
• Incorporate user feedback into core aspects of our design system and product
• Conduct demos and workshops within product and technology, as well as the wider team
• Inspire and collaborate with the design team and cross-functional teams to deliver a world-class customer experience
• Be on the cusp of design trends and practices across all platforms

Preferred skills and experience

• 5+ years of consumer UX design experience working within a multi-disciplinary UX team in an agile environment
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with a portfolio of work that contains examples of UX Design and Visual Systems Development for digital applications (cross-platform and browser environments)
• Experience managing UX research and building customer insights
• Demonstrated experience contributing to a positive culture for UX teams
• Strong problem-solving capabilities with a focus on customer-centred design
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence across multiple teams
• Ability to work independently and take ownership
• Experience using Axure, Invision, framerX, or other prototyping tools
• Expert knowledge in Figma
• Open and honest communication style
• Persuasive written, visual and interpersonal communication skills
• Capable of operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment across multiple teams and balancing multiple priorities
• Sense of fun and a positive demeanour

What we offer

• Growth opportunities working on global products in a start-up like environment
• Dynamic professional product and technology teams
• An excellent working environment with flat hierarchies and lots of flexibility
• Remote working environment with flexible work-from-home policy
• A family-friendly company
• Competitive salary and company incentives
• Conference and education budget
• Developer-grade notebook or desktop of your choice
• Meaningful work with diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate teams which give you the chance to make a difference in our customers’ lives.
• International career opportunities throughout eCG.
• Competitive compensation, conference & education budget. We value your personal and professional development.
• A healthy work-life balance, i.e. part-time work, an additional paid parental leave time, flexible working hours including working from home options.
• A great atmosphere, open-minded company culture with several social team activities (online and offline).

We love building opportunities for others by connecting people from widely diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and geographies. So, being diverse and inclusive isn’t just something we strive for, it is who we are, and part of what we do every single day. We want to ensure that as an employee, no matter who you are, you feel eBay Classifieds Group is a place where you feel safe, included, and that you have the opportunity to bring your unique self to work. To learn about us click here: https://jobs.ebayclassifiedsgroup.com

Covid-19

People are the heart of eBay Classifieds Group and their health and well-being are our first priority.

We continue to monitor local government guidance and partner closely with medical advisors to determine the safest and best next steps for everyone. As a result, most teams are working remotely, with a few teams able to collaborate in person with enhanced safety procedures. We will discuss the particular case for your region during the interview process. As a general rule, interviews will be completed remotely over video calls.

eBay Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [email protected]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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