Principal UX Designer Remote
Job description
Join Police Digital Service as Principal UX Designer
We are seeking a skilled Principal UX Designer to join the Corporate ICT Team at PDS. As the Principal UX Designer, you will play a crucial role in leading the UX design efforts across a range of digital products and services.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the design of user experiences for a range of digital products and services, from initial concept to final implementation.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to define user requirements, ensure design solutions meet business objectives and user needs.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that communicate design concepts and interactions.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and other user-centered design activities to validate design decisions and gather insights to inform design solutions.
- Ensure that designs meet accessibility, usability, and other industry standards and best practices.
- Manage and mentor a team of UX designers, providing guidance and support as needed.
- Develop and maintain design systems, style guides, and design templates to ensure consistency across digital products and services.
- Partner with stakeholders to define and prioritize UX projects and ensure that design solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging UX design trends, tools, and technologies and evaluate their potential impact on our digital products and services.
- Provide input into product roadmaps and release plans based on user insights and design considerations.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the UX team and across the organisation.
- Facilitate UX workshops and design sprints to ideate, prioritise, and validate design concepts.
- Work with developers to ensure that designs are implemented accurately and efficiently.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and optimize workflows to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that user experience considerations are integrated into all aspects of product development.
- Conduct competitive analysis and benchmarking to inform design decisions and ensure that our digital products and services are competitive in the market.
- Communicate design concepts and solutions effectively to stakeholders and other team members.
- Continuously measure and evaluate the effectiveness of design solutions and iterate as needed based on user feedback and data.
Key Criteria:
- Proven experience of developing and embedding UX services, to mature and transform IT product and services.
- Previous experience in UX Design
- Demonstrable passion and curiosity about delivering high quality, high performing user experiences and technology products and solutions.
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship management, problem solving and building trust are all essential requirements for this role.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, as well as presentation and negotiation skills.
- Ability to win hearts and minds around good solution delivery and convince stakeholders to embed and mature their user experience capabilities.
- High standards—you will know what good looks like and want to deliver it.
- Current knowledge of the technical development industry: trends, innovation, and best practices.
Why Join us?
- Balance is important and we want you to take time off to recharge – we offer 28 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years of service. Holiday Purchase also available
- Flexible working hours - We trust you to do your job and we appreciate that life doesn’t always fit around a 9 to 5 workday. We operate core hours of 10 to 4, Monday to Friday (37hr week)
- We care about your well-being – we have an EAP that offers not just welfare benefits but also retail discounts
- Plan for the future – we offer an excellent pension scheme and life assurance cover
- Put your mind at rest regarding your health – offering remote GP, mental health and physiotherapy appointments via video consultation
- Family - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay along with a flexible return to work
- Community - one paid day off per year for volunteering
You can find out more here:
Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)
About Police Digital Service
To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.
Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.
Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we’re always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.
Our Values are:
- We value People
- We do the right thing
- We are innovative
- We are one Team
- We are proud and passionate
Diversity, equity and inclusion
We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.
Working Arrangements
This is a remote role.
