UX / Interaction Designer Southampton, England
Job description
Location
Highfield Campus, Blended between office and home in the United Kingdom
About the role
User Experience (UX) Designers are skilled at shaping an entire experience for the user who interact with our products. They work collaboratively with other disciplines in the multidisciplinary team and with stakeholders to create positive and beneficial experiences that meet users' needs, address their pain points and deliver measurable benefits for the university.
You’ll be joining an award-winning team dedicated to developing and maintaining user-centred product and services. These help meet the needs of many of our user groups - from applying to a course, to finding research collaborations and much more.
We have several positions available.
Your responsibilities
You’ll need to:
- problem solve complex design challenges, iterate, and test solutions
- collaborate with colleagues to build up a rich picture of our users
- work closely with product owners, user researchers, content designers, service designers, other UX and technical disciplines and university functions to turn our user research findings into design concepts
- communicate and explain design, concepts, ideas and the logic and thinking behind them
- run workshops and lead on design activities with tech teams and business stakeholders to define the right problem to solve and embed accessibility into designs and concepts that meet users' needs
Your skills and experience
You’ll need to be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience. It’s okay if you don’t have everything in this list. We’re looking for people who are a good fit and willing to learn.
- Demonstrable experience of advocating for design research and championing for all users.
- Demonstrable experience with interaction design skills such as sketching, prototyping, user journeys, responsive design, design for accessibility.
- Ability to incorporate UX into agile development sprints, coordinating with content designers, developers, service designers and product managers to achieve a strategic vision.
- A strong understanding of techniques, tools, patterns, and collaborative skills to share knowledge and expert advice with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Ability to organise and structure complex information to help diverse audiences easily find what they need.
This is an exciting time for the University of Southampton and we would love you to join us!
The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work life balance with generous holiday allowance, flexi-time and flexible working. For more information on our benefits, please visit the HR pages. To read more about the team and its ethos, visit our recruitment pages.
How to apply
Submit the following documents through our online application form:
- CV
- statement of suitability/covering letter (2 pages maximum) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience relevant for this role
- A portfolio to showcase examples of your work
Please note this advert may be closed prior to the published closing date should a satisfactory number of applications be received.
If you want to talk first, please contact Ayala Gordon, Associate Director - Digital User Experience at [email protected].
Further details:
- Job Description and Person Specification
As a university we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and are proactive in fostering a culture of inclusion, respect and equality of opportunity. We believe that we can only truly meet our objectives if we are reflective of society, so we are passionate about creating a working environment in which you are free to bring your whole self to work. With a generous holiday allowance as well as additional university closure days we are committed to supporting our staff and students and open to a flexible working approach.
Apply by midnight on the closing date. For assistance contact Recruitment on +44(0)2380 592750 or [email protected] quoting the job number.
