User Interface Designer Southampton, England

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Full Time Southampton, England 26801 - 31530 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Our busy user experience and digital design team are looking for people to support their mission – to reach the hearts, minds and spirits of our customers and help them meet their goals.

You will be part of a growing UI design function within the UX & Digital Design team where we help Government and Business customers get the most out of our geospatial data.

This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated and creative individual to join a friendly team of like-minded people, product owners, digital designers, and the content team to deliver a diverse range of OS products across government and business.

We’re seeking a UI designer that is comfortable designing branded site experiences from campaign pages, to web apps, to Software-as-a-service dashboards.

As a Digital UI Designer, you will work within a User Experience and Design team to design customer-facing data ordering and fulfilment systems, and web-based mapping tools built for our Government and Business customers.

You will also contribute to the management of our design system and liaise with the Brand team to ensure brand consistency across the interfaces we build for ourselves and our customers.

The role will also require you to rapidly iterate designs based on feedback to produce production ready finished products into product development teams so you will be experienced in managing design processes end to end within an Agile / Sprint development process.

You’ll be joining a team that combines UX and UI design disciplines into a single team to offer a unified design offering to the organisation.

The role balances strong customer understanding and design skills and hands on project involvement, stakeholder management and collaboration.

Main Responsibilities of a User Interface Designer will include:

Designing mapping applications for Government and Business customers, our customer-facing data delivery and account management system (the OS Data Hub), and Government / Corporate website customer journeys
Creating user-centred designs by understanding business requirements, and user feedback
Delivering inclusive and accessible services and champion this approach across the business
Creating and collaborating with user experience designers on user flows, wireframes, prototypes and mock-ups
Help manage the design system, interaction design patterns and customer-focussed user interfaces
Designing responsive and accessible UI patterns in collaboration with UX researchers and designers
Identifying and troubleshooting User Experience problems
Collaborating effectively with product, engineering, and management teams in an Agile development environment
Incorporating customer feedback, usage metrics, and usability findings into design in order to enhance user experience
Presenting ideas, concepts and design solutions to various stakeholders incorporating feedback in your designs
Developing and maintaining documentation regarding style and interaction guidelines

Key Requirements

Expert knowledge of a range of digital design tools
You will be able to demonstrate accessible and adaptive website and web application design
Day-to-day we use Figma – you will have experience with equivalent tools
You pay strong attention to detail and have a keen eye for aesthetics
You have excellent communication skills and can clearly articulate your ideas, designs, and suggestions
You are a strong team player who can collaborate effectively with different stakeholders

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That’s why our benefits package rewards a job well done.

We’ll give you:

Salary – £26,801 - £31,530
Performance related bonus
A competitive pension scheme
We adopt flexible working and can consider different working hours dependent on the role and your personal circumstances
25 days annual leave - (rising by 1 day each year to 30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 days over Christmas
Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

Location: OSHQ is based in Southampton, Hampshire but at OS we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic offices in Southampton, London or from home. We want to continue to be an inclusive employer and recognise that one size doesn’t necessarily fit all.

Security

OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.

Closing date: Sunday 10 September 2023

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together – in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background or religion.

We’re individually talented and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.

Skills required for this role:

Campaign Development, Customer Centric Design, Design, Marketing, Product Development, Project Management, Technical Support, User Experience (UX)

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