UX Designer

3 months ago


Holborn, Greater London, United Kingdom Nexus Jobs Limited Full time
Job Description

UX Designer - Holborn - Part-Time

Our Client is seeking to recruit a part-time UX Designer for 20 hours per week.

We are looking for a hands-on practitioner, with a can-do attitude and strong organizational skills.

This is a consultancy role, advising a global player in Education on direction and execution of a number of products/projects, as part of the evolving digital strategy.


It is essential that you are self-managed and organized, and able to effectively prioritize and advise multiple stakeholders.

Your focus will be on people - clients, users/customers, and colleagues; and on the process - support and advocate best practice approaches, and adapt and pivot in order to achieve the most regardless of the context.


The key skills for this role are as follows:

SKILLS

  • Excellent communication skills, written and oral. Excellent presentation skills.
  • Workshop facilitation.
  • UX and ethnographic research.
  • Ability to fluidly and confidently work in ambiguous situations.
  • Provide leadership in challenging situations through clarity, tact and diplomacy.
  • Ability to identify and communicate the commercial impact of design decisions.
  • Full command of the UX process is a must. An understanding of the Service Design purpose and process is a bonus.
  • Visual thinking, proof of concept, rapid prototyping, storyboarding and technical
skills.

  • Attention to detail.
  • Ability to quickly turn around wireframes in an iterative environment.
  • Proficiency in Sketch, Axure, etc.
  • An understanding of technology.

EXPERIENCE

  • Senior designer with over 4 years of work experience with blue chip clients
as a UX designer, Product designer, UX architect, or a Service designer.

  • Design processes, agile development and lean UX.
  • Working collaboratively in an interdisciplinary team.
  • Creating omnichannel experiences - cross-platform and cross-device solutions.
  • Ability to define key metrics and evaluate project success.
  • Working to strict deadlines.
  • Proven design track record and design agency experience.
  • Design degree or equivalent.
The Client is based in Holborn Central London.

The salary for this role will be in the range £25K - £30K

Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your availability and salary.