UX Designer Belfast, Northern Ireland
Job description
The Organisation
Lightyear is the fastest growing fintech in Northern Ireland, streamlining accounts payable solutions on its innovative cloud-based product since 2018. Working across all major regions and various industries worldwide, it’s our People who drive our success. Based from both Belfast and Sydney, we are a recognised Best Place to Work employer and are seeking to pursue explosive growth globally.
Team and Role Description
As part of the Product team, the User Experience (UX) Designer will make the Lightyear product usable and accessible to our customers.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Plot user journeys and design user workflows.
- Develop and refine wireframes into clear user interface designs.
- Provide input to product design and UX workflow.
- Collaborate with developers, product managers and other stakeholders, providing guidance to help them implement features and solutions.
- Work with key internal stakeholders to translate requirements and to improve the user experience.
Project Management and Delivery
- Act as an integral member of the product team, being a storyteller, problem solver and contributing to the delivery of user requirements, personas and functional specifications to ensure the design comes to life.
- Take ownership on every stage of the UX process - from running discovery workshops, wireframing and prototyping all the way through to delivering amazing high-fidelity designs.
- Champion simplicity over complexity to translate business complexity into intuitive user interfaces.
- Act as the voice of user experience in product teams, explaining your rationale to developers, and product managers.
- Contribute expertise and collaborate with other members of the team to get to the heart of what our users need, creating sketches, concepts, user journeys, wireframes and navigational prototypes.
- Engage the wider team and key stakeholders in the user centred design process, ensuring that user research is at the heart of design decision making.
- Help to organise formal and informal user research, and proactively try out ideas and designs with people to make sure we’re meeting real user needs.
General
- Adhere to all company policies, procedures, processes and working practices, including those on Data Protection, Equal Opportunities and Health and Safety, in every aspect of your work.
Essential Criteria:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a related position.
- Experience with the full UX design process from user research, to prototyping, testing and implementation.
- Ability to coordinate and facilitate workshops in-person and remotely.
- Familiarity with current mobile technologies (iOS and Android) design trends.
- Strong analytical, influencing, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
Benefits
- Competitive salary.
- 22 days annual leave plus 10 public holidays increasing to 25 days annual leave with length of service.
- Career Development paths – the means to take your career to the next level with defined job tiers and the support, learning and development to get there including training plans.
- Focus on work-life balance with a flexible approach to working arrangements.
- Family-friendly policies.
- Focus on Health and Wellbeing including access to Mental Health support.
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Company/Team Social events and activities – an opportunity to get involved and give back as well as have fun!
- State of the art office environment in Titanic Quarter, close to the city centre, shops and major transport routes.
- Free snacks, drinks & coffee.
- Free Car Parking and easy access to public transport.
- Access to on-site gym and other facilities.
Additional information:
Shortlisting: only candidates who clearly demonstrate on their CV how they meet the essential criteria will be shortlisted. The panel reserves the right to apply all or part of the desirable criteria at the shortlisting stage.
Reserve list: a reserve list of candidates may be maintained for the purpose of any similar vacancies (temporary or permanent) that may arise within 12 months of this recruitment process.
Employment offer: any employment offer is conditional and subject to satisfactory completion of all checks including two employment references, proof of the right to work in the UK and proof of any required qualifications as listed in the criteria.
Lightyear is an Equal Opportunities employer. Appointments are based on merit.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- Do you have the right to work in the UK and understand that this role is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland?
Experience:
- UX Design: 2 years (required)
Work Location: In person
