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We’re Sky, Europe’s biggest entertainment brand. Think top-quality shows. Breaking news. Innovative tech. Must-have products. Careers here mean the freedom and support you need to make an impact – pushing boundaries, creating solutions, hitting targets. And as part of our close-knit team, you’ll enjoy plenty of benefits. Plus, experiences you’ll only find at Sky.

“The Group Product Design team at Sky spends every day creating forward-thinking customer products and services across the Group Product portfolio. As well as transforming the OTT experience across Europe, evolving the Sky Q set-top box interface, and continuing to develop our market-leading digital News and Sports products, we have bold and revolutionizing plans for future. A team of forward-thinking design specialists working across multiple channels – we’re shaping the way customers enjoy Sky’s products and services” – Alan Abbott, Executive Creative Director

The perks

Sky Q, a generous pension and private health care. Access to over 12,000 LinkedIn Learning courses to support your development. And if that’s not enough, our award-winning Osterley campus boasts six subsidised restaurants, a cinema, gym, and much more.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeatSky on LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram.

You will:

This role of Senior UX, Group Sky is fundamental to the creative execution of design work across multiple projects and focuses around three core areas:

• Demonstrate an ability to come up with innovative ideas, solve problems creatively and shape these into logical, coherent solutions that centre around our customers’ needs.
• Execute UX Design work that adheres to standard methodology UCD and brand standards across Sky’s product portfolio.
• Help to maintain an efficient design delivery process, through regular clear communication with delivery teams and consistently delivering to schedule.
• Demonstrate a knowledge and desire to investigate, innovate and develop emerging design, UX and technology trends.
• Work with stakeholder groups inside Group Product’s delivery function including product owners, engineers, researchers and content marketing to represent and advocate the value of UX design and User Centred Design practices.
• Help drive our creative culture by being a highly visible advocate for all things design.
• Collaborate with design and development teams in order to create new experiences and evolve patterns
• Act as mentor to UX Designers and share knowledge across the team.

You’ll have:

• Extensive experience with a specific focus on UX Design.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to convey complex design concepts clearly to different delivery skill sets within the organization.
• Proven experience of UCD design principles and methodologies, with an ability to conduct competitor analysis & benchmarking, create user journeys, user flows, sitemaps, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Experience conducting usability testing; demonstrating an ability to plan, conduct and analyse your own studies using in-person, remote or online methods.
• Strong background in gathering business requirements and translating sometimes competing business objectives into designs which meet customer needs.
• Experience working within a high-pressure delivery environment, and in a highly collaborative manner with multiple delivery skill sets.
• Proficient understanding of the latest tools and applications such as Sketch, InVision, or Adobe creative suite.
• Experience of running discovery & design workshops, helping drive alignment and innovation through experiences we deliver.

So, what are you waiting for? Apply now for a chance to forge your own career path and be brilliant as part of a bright, talented team.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions, we might withdraw the offer.

We’re happy to discuss flexible working.

It’s our people that make Sky Europe’s leading entertainment company. That’s why we work hard to be an inclusive employer, so everyone at Sky can be their best.

A job you love to talk about

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the frameworks, capabilities and tools needed to welcome a billion customers. Join us and help to amplify productivity, quality and innovation across Spotify.

Insight Foundations, which sits within our Platform Mission, is accountable for providing practice leadership, operational support and company-wide co-ordination for our Insights Community – including User Research, Data Science and Market Research.

We are looking for a seasoned Senior User Researcher, who will be responsible for driving excellence in User Research across the whole company. You will have wide-ranging influence over our community of User Researchers, who are spread across every part of Spotify’s business. You will drive the company-level UR practice, leading collaborative projects, and will have scope for impact on both the practice of User Research and on the business through project leadership.

What you’ll do

• Ensure that our research practice stays fresh, and our team continually learns from developments inside and outside Spotify
• Creating and leading a Community of Practice for User Research at Spotify, with support from the Insights Operations team.
• Recognizing and encouraging the right degree of methodological rigor in User Research
• Identifying opportunities for growth in individuals and teams, and working with individuals and managers to support it.
• Identifying training needs and working with managers to design and deliver training (both in-house and externally).
• Ensuring our hiring process, career levels and promotion processes accurately recognize and evaluate core User Research skills, and are in step with competitors
• Taking a holistic view of our understanding of our users and their behavior, and proactively identifying gaps and opportunities for new research
• Work with the User Research community to ensure our foundational research is useful, up to date and understood by all.
• Create, own and maintain research-based frameworks and artifacts to support and enable research and user-centred design activities. Examples of frameworks and artifacts might include, but need not be limited to: Personas, Jobs to be Done, UX Goals, standard definitions of behavioral metrics.
• Working closely with Research Ops and with the UR community:
• Identifying opportunities to create and/or codify existing processes, to support operational or repetitive aspects of UR (e.g. recruitment, how to run a simple usability study)
• Defining the “toolkit” for User Research at Spotify, and keeping it up to date – what software do we prefer, what equipment do we use?
• Identifying trusted individuals and agencies to work with, when we’re unable to do work in-house.

Who you are

• You work hands on with a wide variety of teams to ensure that both the most recent needs of the community are reflected in our shared practice and that behaviors of the community are changing to adopt it.
• When there are competing shared practices you facilitate discussions, providing your experienced perspective where needed, in order to establish a single view on the guiding principles or when to use which practice.
• You have 7+ years of professional experience as a UX researcher.
• You are a seasoned professional who can mentor others from a position of authority.
• You hold an advanced degree in a relevant discipline (HCI, cognitive psychology, anthropology or related)
• You are passionate about mentoring others and building community
• Expert in a wide range of methods, to a high standard of rigor
• Your passion for good practice is infectious. Formal management experience is a plus, but not required.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be brilliant. So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 258 million users.

The Content Platform organization is a central enabler for the Spotify business, delivering a complete, available and enriched catalog of music, podcasts, videos and more. We discover and organize structured information about the world of audio by collecting, consuming and curating data.

We are looking for the first user researcher in Content Platform to show what qualitative insights can do! We’re kicking off foundational research into the users of our content platform—from record labels to internal employees. Content Platform products and research alike touch listeners, recording artists, songwriters, podcast creators, record label employees, music publishers, and internal employees. As part of our team you will study user behaviour, strategic initiatives, product features, and more bringing data and insights into every decision we make. Your work will impact how we think about our users, our ability to identify and satisfy their needs, and create compelling customer support offerings and experiences informed by those needs.

This is a highly impactful role where you and the rest of the team will be able to directly impact how millions of Spotify users are supported around the world.

What you’ll do

• Define, plan, and conduct user research throughout the product development cycle
• Deliver compelling and directional insights to product, design, and business teams
• Facilitate evidence-based product and design decisions
• Develop and innovate on our mixed-methods user research practice
• Contribute actively to company-wide research practice and community
• Work from our London or Stockholm office and be willing to travel internationally

Who you are

• You have hands on experience in a user research role at a consumer-focused company
• You have experience in either a stand alone or Lead role
• You have an applied science degree with design elements
• You have broad experience of qualitative research methods
• You are comfortable planning, scoping, conducting, analysing and communicating research
• You are familiar with quantitative research methods, comfortable with metrics and A/B tests, and are able to synthesise quantitative data with qualitative user research
• You are a great storyteller and communicator, able to speak fluently to business people, designers, engineers and other stakeholders (in English)
• You are a dedicated advocate of a user-centred approach to product development
• You enjoy collaborative work in a dynamic, data-driven, creative environment.

Salary: Competitive

Location: London

Closing: 29/02/2020

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be brilliant. So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the opportunity to enjoy and be inspired by these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 258 million users.

We are currently recruiting for a UX Designer to join our Global Digital Products Team within Aviva.

This role is a 12-month fixed term contract.

We craft complex digital products to help our customers build financial resilience and work with a diverse group who have a wide range of experience in many different sectors.

As a UX designer you will work with researchers and strategists to understand customer needs and craft experiences with visual designers, copywriters, experience researchers, product owners and developers.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Solve complex customer problems through collaborative design practices.
• Work with researchers to define and critique research processes and outcomes.
• Visually represent the experiences in the form of user journeys, goals and information models.
• Produce wireframes and interactive prototypes to depict proposed functionality to customers.
• Work with developers and business analysts to provide details about your design concepts.
• Understanding technology and being able to reframe and challenge technological constraints.

Skills & Experience required:

• Experience using different UX methodologies and tools i.e. Sketch & InVision.
• Experience with research and testing as part of the design process.
• You revel in collaborating with practitioners, with product authorities and with customers.
• Knowledge of different UX methodologies and tools.
• Experience co-creating designs and to negotiating design decisions.

What will you get for this role?

• Competitive salary depending on skills, experience and qualifications.
• Generous defined contribution pension scheme.
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review.
• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days.
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family! (Some exclusions apply).
• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme.

Oh, and by the way…

At Aviva we always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be flexible. If you need to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. We’ll even try to bend work around your further studies or hobbies where we can.

We care deeply about welcoming people no matter where they’re from, how old they are or what disability they have. We encourage applications from every age, race, ethnicity, disability, gender, gender identity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, pregnancy, maternity or caring responsibility. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you!

As part of that we interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

If you like the sound of all that, we’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you need an alternative method of applying, please give Alice Neal a call on: 0121 200 5926 or ping them an email at: [email protected]

As defined in The Equality Act 2010. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you must provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

Description

As a UX Engineer, you’ll be responsible for prototyping, designing and building web apps using React, Vue.js or similar frameworks. You’ll work with UX Specialists, UI Designers, Content Designers and User Researchers.

You’ll do a wide range of work, from very open ended research spikes, to prototyping your own UX/UI design in code, to delivering production front end code as part of a cross-functional agile team. We’re interested in candidates who enjoy working on UX and UI design challenges as well as shipping code.

The UX innovation team is based in two locations: London (Paddington) and Brighton. This role can be made available in either location.

Team Structure:

• You’ll work in the Smart Pension “UX Innovation team”. This team focuses on finding new ways to make pensions engaging for regular people (“scheme members”).
• The team’s activities are wide-ranging, from building blue sky “fantasy” prototypes through to delivering production features for the Smart Pension platform.
• The UX innovation team consists of 1-3 people in each of the following roles: UX Lead, UI Design, Content Design and UX Engineer. Stakeholders from other teams also often get involved in our work, including User Researchers, Product Owners and Subject Matter Experts.
• The UX innovation team has a dedicated team of back end engineers, consisting of two Ruby Engineers, one QA and a scrum master.

At Smart, we’re a diverse team, made up of people from different backgrounds, experiences and skills. Our goal is to build great products to help people plan for their financial futures. We’re constantly developing new ideas to help people look after their pension schemes, in the UK and abroad. We’ve grown to a team of over 200 talented people, all dedicated to creating the best experience for our customers. If you think you can help, come and work with us.

Our updated Recruitment Data Policy is at https://www.autoenrolment.co.uk/pdfs/careers/recruitment-data-notice.pdf

Requirements

• A deep understanding of Javascript. (Our interview tests require you to show your knowledge).
• Using React, Vue.js (or similar javascript frameworks) to deliver substantial digital projects. Either agency-side or client-side experience is fine. Knowledge of ES6+ JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Working with and extending design systems (e.g. Grommet.io).
• Working collaboratively with UX Leads, Product Owners, Content Designers, Researchers and UI Designers in an agile environment.
• A keen interest in best practices and industry trends.
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design frameworks.
• Good communications and analytical skills (problem solving).
• Experience working with APIs.
• Ability to manage your own work as well as pairing up with other team members.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year plus Bank Holidays.
• Auto-Enrolment Pension scheme. The company matches your contributions up to 5%.
• £500 personal training budget per year to spend on courses or conferences.
• Health Insurance (via Benenden).
• Access to PerkBox.
• Cycle to work scheme.

(UX Brighton presumes this role to be permanent. Please confirm directly with Smart Pensions)

Senior Conversion Strategist (CRO)

We are looking for a Senior Conversion Strategist to join our award winning and established Conversion Services (CRO) team to work on some exciting projects and clients.

We need someone with experience in CRO, that is well versed and ‘hands on’ when it comes to split testing and web analytics, who has managed the implementation of split tests across teams and that can hold their own in a senior stakeholder conversation. You’ll need to have a passion for delivering exceptional experiences to users, but you’ll also appreciate the value of using data to support your ideas and in proving their success via split testing. You’ll work WITH our clients (not for them) to analyse, understand and solve conversion problems and opportunities. You’ll then conceptualise solutions, test them, and report how awesome your ideas proved to be.

We’re also looking for a do-er. Someone who isn’t scared to experiment, fail, or accept there will always be something new to learn. You don’t see blockers where others might, you just see opportunities to innovate around them. As part of the team you won’t be flying solo – you’ll have experts like yourself to interact with and bounce ideas off allowing you to further develop your career.

Skills, knowledge and experience…

Technologies and data

• Knowledge of a range of testing and personalisation platforms and a proven track record of using them at an advanced level. Ideally one of the following - Qubit, Monetate, Optimizely, Google Optimize or Adobe Test and Target.
• In-depth knowledge of Google Analytics is necessary, working knowledge of Adobe Analytics would be beneficial
• Data analysis, visualisation and data manipulation skills, including via Google Data Studio, Google Sheets, MS Excel etc.

Strategy and implementation

• Experience in developing optimisation or personalisation strategies using quantitative and qualitative research and value prioritisation techniques
• Able to demonstrate commercial awareness to leverage the most relevant methodology or approach to achieve client objectives
• Experience creating innovative and elegant solutions to conversion issues or opportunities on web properties, working with or managing designers and developers
• Enough understanding of front-end coding technologies and methods to communicate effectively with developers and to support technical scoping and troubleshooting
• Hands on experience in test set-up, targeting and tracking
• Experience in interpreting split test results and using them to make sound recommendations for improving the performance of web properties
• Capable of effectively account managing and project managing some client engagements and resource directly and working within matrix teams on others

Communication

A great communicator at all levels with experience in presenting pitches/proposals and reports to internal team and clients at all levels of seniority Able to effectively visualise and communicate data stories Able to effectively communicate user stories & solution requirements Evidence of mentoring team in aspects of the discipline

Work experience & demonstrable results

• Experience working in conversion at a senior level, with a track record of delivering consistent and impressive return on investment
• Evidence of maintaining and developing senior stakeholder or client relationships to meet/exceed KPI targets
• Experience of working with businesses of various sizes, ideally some experience of working in or with ‘blue chip’ companies and experience in the financial services sector would be a bonus
• Evidence of growing an optimisation function for or within a business working with multiple stakeholders with differing needs

To apply please send your CV and cover letter, with the answers to the below, to [email protected]

• Please describe your CRO experience
• Please describe any knowledge you have of other digital channels
• Please give your salary expectations

(UX Brighton presumes this role to be permanent. Please confirm directly with Fresh Egg)

Description

About Brandwatch

Brandwatch is the world’s pioneering digital consumer intelligence suite, helping over 2,000 of the world’s most admired brands and agencies including Unilever, Walmart and Dell to make insightful, data-driven business decisions.

The company has made three acquisitions to date: PeerIndex (2013), BuzzSumo (2017) as a standalone content marketing platform, and Qriously (2019) to add global survey capabilities. Additionally, the company was bolstered by its merger with Crimson Hexagon (2018) to create the most comprehensive AI-powered social intelligence solution.

Brandwatch has offices around the globe including Brighton, Boston, New York, London, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Madrid, Sydney and Singapore

About the team you’ll be joining

Our product design team is split across Brighton, Stuttgart and Berlin. We have a wide range of skills from pure user research through to pure visual design, and a number of people with a blend in between. You’ll report to our Head of UX Research.

About the role

You will be the UxR Head’s right hand as you will take over the responsibility of scoping and planning the majority of the incoming research requests as well assisting her in mentoring the less experienced UX Researchers by monitoring, refining, and supplementing research conducted by them.

You will be happy to know that we have a dedicated Research Operations Manager who takes care of participant recruitment and other similar time consuming tasks of this role and that we have direct access to a big number of internal users of our platform with whom we can conduct research or pilot our methods before reaching out to our customers.

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research by applying methods such as usability testing, field research, surveys, and diary studies.
• Facilitate user requirement sessions and user workshops.
• Analyse and triangulate qualitative and quantitative data in order to generate tactical insights along with actionable recommendations that drive product design improvements and innovation.
• Relay complex information in a simple, clear, and concise manner to a variety of stakeholders - from developers to senior management.

About you

• You are the users’ number one advocate and an internal evangelist of user-centered design.
• You have significant experience (5+ years) as a UX Designer/Researcher in qualitative and quantitative research methods and have a Master’s degree in Cognitive Science, Design Research, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or a related relevant field.
• You have a proven track record of successful product research within organisations.
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary teams and managing multiple projects to tight deadlines.
• You possess exceptional communication skills in both verbal and written form as well as strong influencing and relationship-building skills.
• You have a drive to take initiative beyond your normal duties and a will to constantly learn new and developing research and analysis methods.

What we offer:

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including; bike to work scheme, pension contribution, and discounted gym memberships.

Culture

Brandwatch is a place where the lines between work and fun are blurred. As a growing international company, with 10 offices across the globe, communication is key to ensure everyone’s voices are heard, and helps us maintain our flat structure. We listen and learn. We develop our staff. We care about everything, and above all we support each other.

Working for Brandwatch

Brandwatch Brighton is where it all began. We can be found in the vibrant North Laines in our contemporary offices. Whilst we don’t believe in stereotypes, we host subsidized onsite pilates and yoga classes along with our Juice Mondays. We have cupboards bursting with snacks, a well stocked drinks fridge, sushi lunches, flexible working spaces, weekly massages and if you’re lucky we’ll even treat you to an ice-cream on the beach or our fortnightly massages right from the office.

(UX Brighton presumes this role to be permanent. Please confirm directly with Brandwatch)

The UX Designer role will be focused on the front-end of Alternative Airlines’ platform, and projects will include a complete overhaul of the front end of the website. Designing new features for the flight booking process, as well as customer-facing landing pages to promote new features and airlines available through Alternativeairlines.com.

Working collaboratively, and alongside a cross-functional team you will take a user-centred design approach to address complex design problems and work closely with front end devs and a designer.

You’ll devise compelling ideas, ideate possibilities and create concepts at different levels of fidelity. You will have a hands on approach with an analytical mindset, that will really delve into why users on our site do what they do, and how you can make their booking experience better.

Through effective analytical research and prototyping, the successful candidate will help create an excellent user experience across all devices including desktop, mobile and tablet.

Essential Skills

• Minimum of 2 Years previous experience in a UX and UI designer role (on an e-commerce website) is essential (travel related background would be even better!)
• Experience working with design tools such as Sketch, Axure, or Adobe Creative Suite is essential.
• Experience in responsive design across multiple touch points.
• Good communication skills including the ability to deliver presentations using structure and style appropriate to your audience.

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Free parking
• Pension scheme
• Free Wi-Fi
• Summer and Christmas parties
• Travel Perks
• Opportunity to directly and personally influence the next stage of growth of a young, innovative and fast-growing OTA

The Role

• Evaluating the alternativeairlines.com website to understand trends and best practice within the travel industry by identifying issues and opportunities to increase conversion.
• Understand the research objective and what type of research or combination of research approaches you will use.
• Proven track record of delivering solutions that increase conversion.
• Produce wireframes and interactive prototypes to depict proposed functionality to stakeholders, potential users, developers and other audiences.
• A/B testing experience and be able to champion the importance of this function whilst working with the rest of the front end team. Knowledge and use of analytics through tools such as Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics.
• Collaborating with development team to ensure your designs are feasible for implementation.
• Work with the design team to monitor brand guidelines and collateral consistency.

(UX Brighton presumes this role is permanent. Please check directly with Alternative Airlines)

Description

Who we are

We are a digital service design agency with strong technical delivery capabilities with ambitious growth plans. We’ve been helping the government, charities, corporations, and start-ups to achieve their digital goals since 2009. We like to do work that has a positive impact on society, and many of our projects have a social-good aspect to them.

Relationships, innovation, and quality are at the core of who we are. We believe that by forming positive relationships with colleagues and clients, we can be better than the sum of our parts. Our focus on human-centred design helps us find smart solutions to our clients’ problems. Our dedication to quality means the services and products we create always leave people smiling.

Flexible and remote working

From the very beginning, we established effective remote working practices. It provides a better work-life balance and gives our people more autonomy. It opens up opportunities for people who otherwise would not be able to work with us and helps us do our bit in preserving the environment. As long as you can make it to the office or client’s site for meetings, you can choose to work from home as much as you wish.

What is it like being a UX Designer at Bit Zesty?

At Bit Zesty, being a Mid-Senior Level UX Designer is about design thinking, collaboration and following best UX practices. It is about creating digital products and services - including web apps, websites and mobile apps - that meet our clients’ user and organisational needs.

Depending on your exact skills and experience, you will do some of the below activities:

• Work closely with Product/Project Managers and clients helping them realise their product vision.
• Create user journey maps and service blueprints to get a shared understanding.
• Sketch, wireframe, prototype by following UX best practices, for example, those advocated by GDS or NNG.
• Conduct user research work - including user interviews, usability tests, surveys, research reports, and personas.
• Keep up to date with the latest UX and Service Design practices and contribute to the company’s blog.

Requirements You would love this role if you are:

• Experienced as a User Experience Designer.
• Passionate about good UX - appreciation of NNG & GDS practices is a bonus.
• An analytical thinker, who enjoys problem-solving and learning new industries as well as complex domains.
• Happy to work on projects of all sizes and shapes, from a quick one-page prototype to multi-designer six-month research and design project.
• Empathetic with the users, but considerate of organisational needs.
• Comfortable working under time pressure and meeting deadlines.

As a Bit Zesty team member, you should also be:

• Customer experience orientated - we strive to provide an excellent experience for the end-users, our customers and our teammates.
• Committed to quality - whether it is award-winning designs, robust code or well-written email, we never cut corners.
• Task-focused - for us it is about getting the job done, rather than watching the clock.
• Flexible - we are not fazed by changing priorities or requirements and are comfortable with a level of uncertainty.
• Honest - we value sincerity and openness.

Benefits

What do we offer in return?

• Opportunity to work mostly remotely (unless you prefer to be office based).
• Office in trendy and easy to reach central London location (Kings Cross/Islington).
• 25 days holiday, birthday day off (+ bank holidays).
• Medical insurance.
• Gym membership.
• Training/conference budget.
• Free bar to unwind after a busy day (when in the office).
• Roof terrace for hot summer days (when in the office).
• Competitive salary depending on relevant experience and working arrangements.

Are you intrigued? Please send us your CV and portfolio. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements or your portfolio is not ready, we’d love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.

(UX Brighton presumes this is a permanent role. Please check directly with Bit Zesty)

The opportunity

We’re looking for a talented end-to-end UX Designer to drive forward our product, supporting our mission to humanise online decision making and to drive incremental sales for our major retail partners.

This is a great opportunity for a skilled UX Designer to get stuck into a broad range of client and product challenges. You’ll be working with a passionate, cross-functional team to deliver iterations to our current product, as well as driving innovative ideas for our future opportunities.

Our product is a playground for experimentation, and you will help to steer our tests to constantly improve. You will use your research skills to ensure that the customer is at the heart of our longer term strategy.

We are grounded in the principles of consumer psychology which helps us guide consumers to make difficult buying decisions with confidence. As the global trend in retail continues to shift from the high street to the web, we are uniquely placed to help brands adapt to changing buying behaviours.

What we are looking for:

• 2+ years as a UX practitioner, ideally within a digital product based environment

• Able to demonstrate your approach to UX for a given task or project

• Empathy for customer needs, but can also consider technical limitations and business goals

• Not fixated on beautiful visuals but passionate about solving problems

• Proven ability to drive data-led optimisation within a digital product

• Experience of user testing and user research

• Comfortable planning and running UX workshops

• A background of working closely with both developers and designers

• Willing to be versatile and adaptable, working across a broad range of projects and managing your workload wisely

• An innovative mindset, ready to tackle a variety of opportunities

• Confident communicating ideas to the wider business and our partners

Your responsibilities:

• Working alongside our product owners and visual designers to create groundbreaking digital solutions

• Conducting usability tests and user research

• Designing new features and optimisations for our products and internal tools

• Developing ideas that improve user engagement and have a positive impact upon conversion

• Building interactive product prototypes

• Working with developers to ensure feasibility

• Planning, creating and facilitating UX workshops

Why choose us?

Our Culture

Our success is underpinned by our cultural values. These values are not something we stick up on a wall – they don’t need to be. They are behaviours that we recognise and celebrate in each other. They are what we live by every day.

15gifts cultural values

• Celebrate brilliance

• Take ownership

• Share Insights

• Look for a better way

• Support each other

Our values are driven through Culture Club – a staff team that rotates every quarter. Advocates for our culture as we grow, Culture Club activates ideas, makes improvements and helps everyone to connect.

Our Office

We can confidently say that our sea-view office is one of Brighton’s best. Our flexible workspaces mean you’re not tied to a desk, unless you want to be. You could work in a sociable spot on floor 4, or set yourself up with a screen on floor 3. This is everyone’s space and it’s available after work – our staff host everything from gaming and craft nights to adventure film screenings.

Other benefits

• Free breakfasts, fresh fruit, snacks, beers, locally-roasted coffee

• Food for thought: free lunch and talks every Friday

• Lunchtime yoga, mindfulness and other fitness activities

• Regular social events, from Friday drinks to tea clubs and volleyball

• Visits from friendly office dogs

• Quarterly reviews that involve everyone in strategy planning

• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme): confidential counselling for work and personal issues

• Cycle to work scheme and free eye tests

• 25 days holiday and your birthday off work

• On site changing rooms, showers and internal bike storage

Want to join a team with a mission to improve and save lives?

We continually look for motivated and skilled individuals who are interested in supporting our customers – healthcare professionals who use our products to help patients and their communities.

We currently have the following opportunity available - please contact us for more details!

Description

The UX Developer is primarily responsible for the innovation and delivery of the presentation layer of Elekta’s software. Time is dedicated to front-end engineering to explore and solve problems with designers, using frontend frameworks, and web standards including web components. The UX Developer will create elegant and pleasing UI interactions and teach what is learned to colleagues, the ideal candidate will be a natural collaborator.

The UX team is part of the Elekta Platform Group which is delivering a new software platform for Elekta products. The Elekta Platform is an environment of collaborating service-oriented software components or Elements used across the product portfolio. The Elekta Platform is a new programme within Elekta which will have its first delivery this year and then will continue to be a foundational aspect of all Elekta products.

Responsibilities

• Help develop a component library that can be consumed by other development teams
• Solve interaction design problems with granular front-end development solutions
• Work with designers and developers to rapidly move from wireframe to working implementation
• Build modular, testable UI components
• Share design, process, and architecture learnings with other developers
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams in planning, designing, testing and documenting standards

Authorities and RACI –

Accountable

• To deliver good quality solutions in a timely manner according to agreed project plans and Agile stories, adhering to Elekta architectural directives and guidelines and industry best practice
• To work on own initiative to keep project work on schedule and at good quality, requesting help when it is needed from team members and senior technical and management staff
• To be a positive and engaged team member, advising and collaborating with colleagues to make Elekta solutions as good as possible
• Keep skills and knowledge up to date with self-learning as well as attending courses provided by Elekta

Responsible

• Deliver software solutions for Elekta products within the UX discipline following Agile practice and delivering tasks and stories as required to deliver good user experience and high quality robust software solutions
• Participate positively and actively in the team and in the technical community at Elekta, sharing expertise and collaborating with colleagues across the business to deliver excellent products
• Follow industry developments and innovation and contribute insight and expertise to keep Elekta products

Relevant Knowledge, skills and competencies –

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3 -5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in building rich, interactive UIs
• Significant JavaScript development and/or CS background
• Prototyping experience
• Experience in web components and front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue)
• Current with latest client-side techniques, trends, best practices
• Cross-browser development & testing expert
• Excellent understanding of the overarching process of application development
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to influence others with articulation and insight
• (UX Brighton presumes this is a permanent role. Please check directly with Elekta)

Yell is looking for a passionate Lead UX/UI Designer to manage its User Experience team. Reporting to the Head of Consumer, you will be responsible for empowering your team, and working with Product and Engineering teams to shape the direction of products across Yell.com and the Yell iOS and Android Apps. An advocate for Design Thinking, you will ensure that all projects have a clear rationale and will be there to champion the user throughout the project lifecycle.

About the Team…

You will be joining the Consumer Team to lead products that bring businesses and customers together. As the champions of local, Yell are constantly developing products and services that can improve and strengthen the communication between these two groups of users, and you will be instrumental in shaping this experience through your own work, as well as that of your team.

We are looking for a leader who shares our passion for the user, and who is keen to push what is possible within the digital space. We expect you to challenge and develop your team to deliver ever-greater solutions. We offer a superb work/life balance, flexible working hours, optional home working, company social events and numerous career development opportunities.

What will you be doing…

• Lead the User Experience team, mentoring team members and ensuring that all designers are producing amazing work
• Manage workflow for the team, ensuring that project goals are clear to designers and that all deadlines are met (picking up design tasks yourself when required)
• Ensure that team is producing effective project materials including user flows, wireframes and Sketch layouts
• Work collaboratively with Product Leads to shape initial project requirements and ongoing strategic direction
• Engage members of Web and App teams in design process through collaboration, workshops and design show and tell
• Present designs to project teams and key stakeholders, making clear reasoning behind decisions
• Champion the use of quantitative/qualitative research to inform decisions, ensuring that there is a clear rationale for the teams’ work
• Manage the Yell Design System, helping to build out components and working with Engineering to integrate with build processes
• Demonstrate a clear knowledge of Yell customer needs, advocating for users throughout all projects
• Follow up post-launch with ongoing analysis of data user feedback, suggesting changes based on these findings
• Contribute to ongoing team culture, building a positive team environment and sharing knowledge with team members
• Develop agile thinking within the team, advocating for lean methodologies where possible
• Ensure W3C accessibility guidelines are followed for all user interfaces

What we need from you…

• 3+ years experience in managing or leading a design team -A strong, well-curated portfolio demonstrating your expertise (and an ability to talk through projects outlining involvement and value)
• Prior involvement in design projects in a commercial environment
• Experience of working with developers and product owners to deliver products and features
• Proficient communicator with ability to prioritise own, as well as teams workload
• Able to work with and deliver personas, user journeys, page flows, wireframes, page comps, interactive prototypes
• Proven experience designing and shaping intuitive graphical interfaces for desktop, tablet and mobile devices
• Competent with industry standard software; Sketch, Invision, Adobe CC
• Ability to use both quant and qual insight to inform decision-making
• Ability to be flexible, and adapt to changing priorities within projects

Desirable experience…

• Some knowledge of UX role in agile Scrum methodology and practices an advantage
• Some knowledge of Analytics software (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) also a bonus
• Experience at carrying out customer research (lab research, and usability testing) a nice to have
• Experience with motion design (After Effects, Lottie) nice to have
• Experience work with bot conversation flows also an advantage

Our company

For almost 50 years Yell has specialised in helping small and medium sized businesses find and connect with customers. By combining leading edge technology with our decades of local marketing experience, we are driven to help businesses achieve their ambitions.

Our values; Knowledge, Relationships, Integrity, Passion & Results really matter and how we work is just as important as what we do.

At Yell we support equal opportunities. We aim to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to create a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.

In order to be considered for this role you must be able to demonstrate proof of eligibility to work in the UK and hold a valid work visa if applicable.

Applying

You’ve got a number of options when it comes to applying:

Full Application

Simply upload your CV from your computer or from your mobile/tablet using one of our cloud options.

Partial Application

Don’t have your CV to hand? Use this option to give us your name, email and phone number, we’ll then contact you to complete your application.

(UX Brighton presumes this is a permanent role. Please check directly with Yell)

Yell are actively looking for a well-rounded Senior UX/UI Designer to join our growing Consumer Team. You will be working alongside Product Leads and Engineering to shape the user experience on a range of web and app-based products. From initial research, through design and on to final delivery, you will be there to shape beautiful interfaces and champion the user throughout the life of each project.

About the Team…

You will be joining the Consumer Team to design products that bring businesses and customers together. As the champions of local, Yell are constantly developing products and services that can improve and strengthen the communication between these two users, and you will be integral in shaping this amazing experience.

We are looking for people who share our passion for the user, and who are keen to push what is possible within the digital space. We offer a superb work/life balance, flexible working hours, optional home working, company social events and numerous career development opportunities.

What you’ll be doing…

• Work alongside Product Leads to shape initial project requirements, inform product direction and bring design thinking principles to all work
• Demonstrate a clear knowledge of Yell customer needs, using insight to inform direction
• Use quantitative and qualitative research to inform your design decisions, articulating justifications to all team members
• Engage members of web and app teams in design process through collaboration, workshops and design show and tell
• Produce effective project materials including user flows, wireframes and Sketch layouts, ensuring that that user/business goals are met
• Present designs to project teams and key stakeholders, making clear reasoning behind your decisions, ensuring successful handover
• Review and constructively feedback on work from designers across the team
• Follow up post-launch with ongoing analysis of data and analytics, suggesting changes based on these findings
• Creation of new UI elements that fit with the existing Yell design system
• Ensure W3C accessibility guidelines are followed for all user interfaces
• Organising work and assets in clear and logical way, ensuring that all members of team can easily pick up work
• Contribute to ongoing team culture, building a positive team environment, sharing knowledge with junior team members

What we need from you…

• 5+ years’ experience designing digital products
• A strong, well-curated portfolio demonstrating your expertise (and an ability to talk through projects outlining involvement and value)
• Prior involvement in design projects in a commercial environment
• Experience of working with developers and product owners to deliver products and features
• Proficient communicator with ability to prioritise own workload
• Able to work with and deliver personas, user journeys, page flows, wireframes, page comps, interactive prototypes
• Proven experience designing intuitive graphical interfaces for desktop, tablet and mobile devices
• Competent with industry standard software; Sketch, Invision, Adobe CC
• Ability to use both quant and qual insight to inform decision-making
• Ability to be flexible, and adapt to changing priorities within projects

Nice to have…

• Some knowledge of UX role in agile Scrum methodology and practices an advantage
• Some knowledge of Analytics software (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) also a bonus
• Experience at carrying out customer research (lab research, and usability testing) a nice to have
• Experience with motion design (After Effects, Lottie) nice to have
• Experience work with bot conversation flows also an advantage

About us…

For almost 50 years Yell has specialised in helping small and medium sized businesses find and connect with customers. By combining leading edge technology with our decades of local marketing experience, we are driven to help businesses achieve their ambitions.

Our values; Knowledge, Relationships, Integrity, Passion & Results really matter and how we work is just as important as what we do.

At Yell we support equal opportunities. We aim to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to create a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we’ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.

In order to be considered for this role you must be able to demonstrate proof of eligibility to work in the UK and hold a valid work visa if applicable.

Applying

You’ve got a number of options when it comes to applying:

Full Application

Simply upload your CV from your computer or from your mobile/tablet using one of our cloud options.

Partial Application

Don’t have your CV to hand? Use this option to give us your name, email and phone number, we’ll then contact you to complete your application.

(UX Brighton presumes this is a permanent role. Please check directly with Yell)

DESCRIPTION

At Alexa Shopping, we strive to enable shopping in everyday life. We allow customers to order instantly whatever they need, by simply interacting with their Alexa devices such as the Echo Show, Echo Dot, Alexa in the Amazon app, just to name a few. Our services allow you to shop no matter where you are or what you are doing. You can go from ‘I want that’ to ‘that’s on the way’ in a matter of seconds. We are seeking the industry’s best to help us create new ways to interact, search and shop. Join us, and you’ll be taking part in changing the future of everyday life. Come build the future of everyday life with us.

Alexa Shopping seeks a Senior User Researcher to join our London-based team to help design and build global shopping experiences for customers using Alexa devices with screens such as Echo devices, TVs, and phones. You will work closely with leadership, design and product owners to create and execute a research strategy to support the development and launch of new features and ensure customer insights are effectively communicated to the relevant stakeholders.

Excellent communication skills are a must as you will collaborate with design, product and tech teams based in Seattle, California, Israel and India. You will also need to demonstrate strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritise and work on multiple projects in parallel, while ensuring high-quality insights are delivered. The ideal candidate will have experience with early-stage product development, voice interfaces, and artificial intelligence. If you have the drive to help new UX patterns and retail behaviours, join us in developing the next generation of Amazon experiences. This role is based in London, UK, with occasional business travel to Seattle.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of professional experience in research or UX roles.
• Hands-on experience with: lab-based usability, remote testing, paper and iterative prototype testing, concept testing, field research, international research, and survey design.
• Qualitative and quantitative data-collection and analysis skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication: able to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively to different audiences and disciplines.
• Ability to establish, document and share best practices within user research to key partners.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously, and handle multiple overlapping projects in an agile environment along-side development and product management teams.
• Fluency in best practices for user research, user-centered design process, as well as strong knowledge of user research principles and techniques.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating past work experience and deliverables (e.g.: study plans, reports).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of working with new and emerging technologies
• Experience of working with distributed teams
• Proficiency in quantitative data analysis and statistics.
• BS in HCDE, HCI, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, or similar

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

The Hotels.com User Experience research team is dedicated to understanding our customers’, their needs and behaviours when researching and booking hotels. We are looking for a UX researcher who is passionate about influencing our product through customer data and qualitative feedback and who is motivated to use a variety of research methodologies to get to this understanding.

What you’ll do:

As a Hotels.com User Experience Researcher, you will:

• Define, consolidate, and execute qualitative and quantitative research using a wide variety of research methodologies (lab testing, primary/generative research, surveys, etc.) in order to present deep insights on requirements definition, content strategy, wireframes, visual and interaction design.
• Work closely with partners across multiple product teams to clearly define and prioritise user research questions, then outline and schedule research plans.
• Identify and recommend the best methods to answer UX product research questions and prioritise them according to schedule and opportunity constraints.
• Proactively find opportunities to improve the user experience and better serve business needs using site analytics and independent research.
• Manage and lead all aspects of vendor-base research projects and relationships, ensuring their work is delivered on time and fit to business needs.
• Propagate research results and insights throughout the organisation and champion the voice of the customer, ensuring that the customer travel lifecycle, user needs, and pain points are well understood, documented, and communicated.

Who you are:

To be a successful, it is a given that you are a detailed- and process driven thinker grounded in cognitive sciences, but you must also have a creative streak, a love for experimentation, and an ability to deliver quickly. You must have:

• Excellent research skills with a record of delivering insights that influence product and design decisions.
• Demonstrable experience in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including lab testing, remote user testing, interviews, surveys, rapid iterative testing, ethnography, and other techniques, combined with access to data from the analytics team.
• The ability to write detailed study plans which include goals, metrics, study protocols, and to summarise large sets of data.
• Strong organisational skills, able to act independently and to switch quickly between different projects, even within a day.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and talent in articulating and visualising both qualitative and qualitative results.
• Being able to understand others’ perspective and clarify meaning before reacting
• An understanding the interplay between business requirements, product strategy and user experience.
• The belief that observations are key, and that understanding the “why” is critical.
• Masters degree or PhD in Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Science, or equivalent preferred.
• Proven experience working with product teams and UX designers conducting user research (e.g., usability testing, UI reviews, competitive benchmarking, site visits, and literature reviews) on software interfaces.
• Demonstrable ability to work with others in a consultative capacity, including excellent interpersonal skills and the talent to forge strong working relationships.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world’s travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people’s lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you’re applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

Diversity statement

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

Job Description

The Role

PwC is evolving it’s approach to business transformation by bringing in experience strategy, design, and user experience (UX) capabilities. We believe that providing a combined approach incorporating business, experience and technology is essential to delivering successful transformative outcomes for our clients. This new team will benefit from working closely with our established business strategists and technologists throughout the firm, gaining access to leading clients globally. PwC has recently appointed a new CXO (Chief Experience Officer) to its Consulting practice, to evolve the firm’s approach.

PwC is looking for a User Experience (UX) Designer with 1-3 years of agency, relevant client-side (public or private sector), or consultancy experience to join its growing London-based experience team. The ideal candidate will

Be a design leader with deep knowledge of information and interaction design across a variety of devices, touch-points, and experience domains Have a keen eye for detail, and a strong visual design aesthetic Have a working knowledge of service design and content strategy Be well-versed in modern design research methods (remote and ethnographic) Have demonstrable experience helping global brands design and deliver digital products and services Have a strong desire to co-create (with clients and internal teams), and experience facilitating this type of collaboration

The Basics

Expertly proficient in Sketch and Invision Supporting the development and documentation of detailed user experience specifications, wireframes, component mapping for interactive interfaces. A specialist in 2 or more other rapid prototyping tools Well-versed in either Design Thinking or MG Taylor methodologies Be the voice of the user through your work, organising and conducting user research and user testing to inform concepts and validate designs Ability to navigate a variety of legacy UX tools (e.g., Axure, Omnigraffle, etc.) Knowledge of Framer, UX-Pin Confident verbal and visual communicator A natural problem solver An all-around cool person

About you

We’re looking for energetic, passionate UX practitioners who enjoy sweating the details - working across devices and touch-points – to design and deliver bold work for our brave clients across the UK. Reporting to the Head of UX, you’ll be a key part of the London-based Experience team working hard to put the customer at the centre of everything that you do (and you’ll challenge our clients and their teams to do the same), and bringing propositions, products and services, and ‘the art of the possible’ to life.

About your day-to-day

• Quickly formulate hypotheses based on insights and intuition;
• Design and facilitate multi-disciplinary co-creation workshops at different points throughout the product- and service-design lifecycle to explore those hypotheses;
• Prototype ideas quickly (i.e., make the simplest artefact possible to test a hypothesis or assumption)
• Design experiences across devices and touch-points for our clients and their customers;
• Work closely with third parties as part of delivery projects; engage with and support your colleagues from customer, technology and strategy practice areas;
• Support business development through participation in proposals and client meetings;
• Support practice development, through design leadership, mentoring and coaching;

Our Competencies

Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as the PwC Professional. They’re integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about the PwC Professional and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries – everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

Not the role for you?

Did you know PwC offer flexible contract arrangements as well as contingent work ( ie temporary or day rate contracting)?

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we’re open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

About Brandwatch

Brandwatch is the world’s pioneering digital consumer intelligence suite, helping over 2,000 of the world’s most admired brands and agencies including Unilever, Walmart and Dell to make insightful, data-driven business decisions.

The company has made three acquisitions to date: PeerIndex (2013), BuzzSumo (2017) as a standalone content marketing platform, and Qriously (2019) to add global survey capabilities. Additionally, the company was bolstered by its merger with Crimson Hexagon (2018) to create the most comprehensive AI-powered social intelligence solution.

Brandwatch has offices around the globe including Brighton, Boston, New York, London, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris, Madrid, Sydney and Singapore.

Role description:

We are growing our product design team and are looking for someone to join us on our quest to build amazing SaaS products which push the boundaries of convention, have flair, originality, and make our customers sing out loud with delight.

We want the ooh and we want the ahh! We want personality, and we want grace. If you are a talented Product/UX designer who is motivated by any of the above and want to work in a highly collaborative design team where your ideas count and can tangibly make a difference, then this could be the perfect role for you.

About the team you’ll be joining:

Our product design team is split across Brighton, Stuttgart and Berlin. We have a wide range of skills from pure user research through to pure visual design, and a number of people with a blend in between.

Responsibilities/Skills and experiences required:

• Have at least 2 years aggregated commercial experience working as a UX designer on digital products (web apps/SaaS preferred over mobile/native)
• Present a portfolio during your interview that demonstrates excellence in your craft - show us your process of translating outcomes into outputs
• Be able to drive great UX design within a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Marketers, technical architects and developers
• Be able to plan, organise and execute all aspects of the design stage from concept to prototype
• Be able to distil and translate complex requirements into modern, accessible and inviting experiences
• Have experience in planning and conducting user research (generative and evaluative) and translating those findings into design opportunities
• Document and communicate your work efficiently and effectively to a variety of stakeholders and colleagues from juniors through to execs

We are seeking:

• Understand and be conversant with the core design principles regarding colour, typography, psychology, movement and behaviour
• Know how to work with established design systems / pattern libraries
• Have a passion for data visualisation
• Have designed and tested information dashboards before
• Have experience designing for mobile contexts

What we offer:

Benefits:

We offer a range of benefits including; bike to work scheme, pension contribution, and discounted gym memberships.

Culture:

Brandwatch is a place where the lines between work and fun are blurred. As a growing international company, with 10 offices across the globe, communication is key to ensure everyone’s voices are heard, and helps us maintain our flat structure. We listen and learn. We develop our staff. We care about everything, and above all we support each other.

Working for Brandwatch:

Brandwatch Brighton is where it all began. We can be found in the vibrant North Laines in our contemporary offices. Whilst we don’t believe in stereotypes, we host subsidized onsite pilates and yoga classes along with our Juice Mondays. We have cupboards bursting with snacks, a well stocked drinks fridge, sushi lunches, flexible working spaces, weekly massages and if you’re lucky we’ll even treat you to an ice-cream on the beach or our fortnightly massages right from the office.

Are you bold? Innovative? Inquisitive? Great, then we can help you thrive…

The V by Vodafone team was created just 2 years ago to pioneer a new way of connecting our 500 million customers globally to the world of Internet of Things.

We’re a team of fearless, restless visionaries in a completely new technology, on a mission to create world-changing products that connect people to their homes, their smart devices, and the things they love. Using our smart V SIM card, innate objects can now be controlled and monitored from anywhere at anytime, giving people the opportunity to do things they have never done before, offering freedom, security and control on a new level.

We have already launched 15 products in 7 markets internationally …and we just can’t stop!

This is where you come in…

We are seeking like-minded intrepid explorers to join us. People that aren’t afraid to take risks. The daring ones, the trailblazers, the pioneers!

As the head of product design for IoT you’ll lead the design vision and strategy for V apps, building compelling and creative experiences that strike a balance between our customer’s needs and business’s requirements. You will lead multiple product design projects creating magical experience for our customers. You embrace the Product principles and agility that comes from working within a Squad-based structure following lean and agile product and design principles collaborating.

Together with your team of designers and researchers, you will be accountable for delivery of UX insights and designs that support the product strategy. You and your team will work very closely with product owners and the engineering teams, organising changes to our digital applications to deliver optimisations built around our user’s needs.

The Head of Product Design is the creative heartbeat of our design and development teams. You are responsible for building amazing products and magical experiences for our customers. You are a passionate problem solver, have the customer at the heart of everything you do and are willing to embrace the unknown. You thrive in an environment with like-minded collaborative and creative people. You will be part of a dedicated team of specialists committed to producing world-changing products in the consumer tech industry. You will share our prioritisation of user centricity and passion for learning and experimenting and you will be responsible for getting these principles into products that surprise and delight our customers.

Every day is guaranteed to be different.

With us you will:

• Play a pivotal role in the Squad based product structure leading on the customer experience
• Be a key member of delivering the product roadmap and your own budget (CAPEX and OPEX)
• Own usability and research studies to direct our design thinking and strategy
• Be part of the Product & Design leadership team

You’re able to:

• Work within a lean and agile environment
• Drive the Squad based product and design based structure balancing your team sitting within the Squads as well as solving problems centrally within the design team
• 5+ years p Product Design and a track record of creating a culture and become in a culture amplifier in a startup environment
• Ideal but not necessary - Degree in design, design management, psychology, human-computer interaction or equivalent
• Excellent people management skills
• Created products from scratch with a product team
• Using an analytical and data-driven approach for creating user interfaces
• User-centric and you are capable to incorporate user insights and feedback into your design process
• Quick to bring ideas to life using prototyping tools like InVision, Figma, Zeplin and turn them to high-quality designs and final assets
• Familiar in designing for a wide range of devices and platforms and familiar with current web and mobile standards

What you can expect from us:

• Dedicated support and mentoring
• Opportunity to develop and progress – plus a solid dedication to work-life balance. It all means you’ll have everything you need to advance your career, and achieve your full potential
• Annual company bonus
• 28 day’s holiday
• Contributory company pension scheme

If you have any questions left

Check out the application process and get to know us better here: https://careers.vodafone.co.uk/consumer-internet-of-things

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DESCRIPTION

Who we are

We are a digital service design agency with strong technical delivery capabilities with ambitious growth plans. We’ve been helping the government, charities, corporations, and start-ups to achieve their digital goals since 2009. We like to do work that has a positive impact on society, and many of our projects have a social-good aspect to them.

Relationships, innovation, and quality are at the core of who we are. We believe that by forming positive relationships with colleagues and clients, we can be better than the sum of our parts. Our focus on human-centred design helps us find smart solutions to our clients’ problems. Our dedication to quality means the services and products we create always leave people smiling.

Flexible and remote working

From the very beginning, we established effective remote working practices. It provides a better work-life balance and gives our people more autonomy. It opens up opportunities for people who otherwise would not be able to work with us and helps us do our bit in preserving the environment. As long as you can make it to client meetings when required, you can choose to work from home as much as you wish.

What is it like being a Lead User Experience Designer at Bit Zesty?

At Bit Zesty, being a Lead UX Designer is about design thinking, collaboration as well as creating great user-centered digital services and products. You will be:

• Leading UX and service design projects.
• Facilitating workshops.
• Creating user journey maps, service blueprints, reports.
• Chipping in with hands-on UX work, by creating sketches or wireframes.
• Establishing internal UX Design frameworks and methodologies.
• Training and mentoring team members in Design.
• Educating clients on UX Design principles and value.
• Driving new business & creating UX/Service - Design proposition.

REQUIREMENTS

You would love this role if you are:

• Experienced as a lead level User Experience Designer/Service Designer.
• Passionate about good UX with appreciation of NNG & GDS practices.
• An analytical thinker, who enjoys problem solving and learning new industries as well as complex domains.
• Happy to work on projects of all sizes and shapes, from a quick one-page prototype to multi-designer six-month research and design project.
• Empathetic with the users, but considerate of organisational needs.
• Comfortable working under time pressure and meeting deadlines.
• Enjoy managing and mentoring people.

As a Bit Zesty team member, you should also be:

• Customer experience orientated - we strive to provide an excellent experience for the end-users, our customers and our teammates.
• Committed to quality - whether it is award-winning designs, robust code or well-written email, we never cut corners.
• Task-focused - for us it is about getting the job done, rather than watching the clock.
• Flexible - we are not fazed by changing priorities or requirements and are comfortable with a level of uncertainty.
• Honest - we value sincerity and openness.

BENEFITS

What do we offer in return?

• Opportunity to work mostly remotely (unless you prefer to be office based).
• Office in trendy and easy to reach central London location (Kings Cross/Islington).
• 25 days holiday, birthday day off (+ bank holidays).
• Medical insurance.
• Gym membership.
• Training/conference budget.
• Free bar to unwind after a busy day (when in the office).
• Roof terrace for hot summer days (when in the office).
• £65K to £85K salary depending on relevant experience and working arrangements.

Are you intrigued? Please send us your CV and portfolio. Even if you don’t meet all the requirements or your portfolio is not ready, we’d love to hear from you.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.