Senior UX

JOB TITLE:
Senior UX / UI Designer (12-Month FTC)

LOCATION:
Halifax or Leeds

SALARY:
£59,850 - £66,500

HOURS:
Full-Time

DURATION:
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

WORKING PATTERN:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office.

About this opportunity
As a UX / UI Designer, you'll be responsible for the design process of a product from start to finish. With a deep understanding of customer needs and goals, you can act as the lynchpin between designers, engineers, and researchers, and help build mock - ups through wireframes and prototypes.

This is a unique opportunity improve the journeys in which we engage our millions of customers, while supporting them with the right products, tools, and services. As a Designer you're empathetic, strategic and collaborative. You understand how to communicate visually and engage through storytelling.

We're keen to add to our team's reputation of delivering outstanding customer outcomes by demonstrating behaviours aligned with our own.

As a UX / UI Designer, it'll be your role to:

• Work as part of an agile team, to help uncover priorities, visualise outcomes and define scope.
• Support our research team to make sure we're led by colleague, customer and market insight.
• Communicate with and influence colleagues, including those who come from digital and non - digital backgrounds, to manage expectations and incorporate multiple perspectives.
• Make good design decisions by bringing the user perspective to the forefront and challenging the validity of constraints.
• Collaborate closely with designers, product owners and engineers across different teams.
• Share knowledge, generate ideas, and embed design principles across product, service, and customer journeys.
• Have customers' needs in mind when defining end - to - end journeys.
• Map out intuitive steps in processes, such as user flows.
• Structure information delivery throughout the journey to define and create page level prototypes and design goals.
• Creating consistency and interaction techniques across channels, such as component design.

What you'll need

• Demonstrable experience within Product Design
• Experience of creating contributing design components into a design system.
• An in - depth understanding of competitor analysis, concepting, workshop facilitation, visual design across multiple channels, prototyping, and sketching.
• Interaction design and usability best - practice knowledge.
• User research activity awareness.
• Proficiency with industry standard design and business tools, such as Sketch, Figma and InVision.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose?
Apply today and let's create something extraordinary together