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UX Designer
We're looking for a well-rounded UX Designer to join our Technology team. Reporting to our Development Manager, you’ll be working with our Product Owners to understand customer needs and through observation, research, iterative prototyping, and how we can achieve our business goals. You’ll get to explore real-world customer problems and help the Development team implement creative, innovative solutions.
We’re also hiring 2 Senior Developers and 2 Mid-Level Developers (PHP/Laravel).
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborating with Development Manager and Product Owners to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and user experience.
- Conducting user research and evaluating user feedback to understand user needs.
- Tracking and analysing user activity, journeys and data patterns alongside our Data Analyst to help make informed suggestions.
- Designing and delivering wireframes, shaping user stories, user journeys, and low-fidelity mock-ups, high-fidelity designs.
- Prototyping design concepts in Figma, and iteratively validating them with users to refine and improve the solutions.
- Working with Developers and Testers to ensure designs and flows are implemented as intended
- Identifying quick wins as well as ideating and defining long-term solutions that align with the company's business goals.
- Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas and integrate them into the product.
Required Experience
- Proven UX design experience with a strong portfolio including web application UX.
- Proficiency in visual design and wireframing tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar.
- Experience in conducting user research and observation or usability testing, turning the output into data that can drive product design decisions.
- Strong problem-solving skills with a creative yet pragmatic approach.
- Able to outline UI guidelines, themes and build UI toolkits for desktop and responsible/mobile.
- Experience carrying out user-interviews and identifying user pain-points.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working with development teams to get designs into production and reviewing user uptake
- Experience with customer analytics and data-driven design
Desirable Experience
- Experience building web applications with VueJS/Tailwind CSS
- Familiarity with front-end development including basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, enabling a more collaborative and efficient interaction with the development team.
- Proficiency in accessibility and inclusive design principles, with experience designing for diverse user groups and complying with WCAG guidelines.
- Experience with A/B testing, Google Optimise
- Experience with Google Analytics, Tag Manager, MouseFlow Hotjar
- Working with brand managers
Recruitment Process
1. Our Development Manager will review your application.
2. We’ll schedule a short informal video call (less than 30 minutes) to explore your skills and experience a bit more, check for a culture and role fit.
3. We’ll invite you to the office for a more formal interview (about an hour) with the Development Manager, Product Owners and a few Developers to talk more about the role and the work at Vivedia.
4. If you’re the right candidate, we will make you an offer.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)
- Statutory defined-contribution pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life event support: £1,000 first-time buyers' allowance, £250 bereavement allowance, £250 baby bonus, £250 marriage allowance
- Employee assistance programme
- Free annual eye tests, glasses contributions and flu vaccine
- Annual paid volunteering day, sports club sponsorship and choice of charitable donations
- Personal learning and development budget
- Flexible working hours/location (subject to needs of role)
- Warm and relaxed working environment
- Smart hub office with freshly ground coffee, healthy snacks, and free onsite parking
- Regular team socials, including big summer family party
What next?
If this sounds interesting to you, apply now.