UX Designer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Aegon

Aegon

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Job Description:

UX Designer

User Experience Team

People are living longer than ever before, and we're excited by the opportunities this brings.

As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter.

We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it - however grand or humble their ambitions.

Working at Aegon, you'll play an important part in helping achieve this.

We have three behaviors that are central to how we operate as a team and a business:
we step up, we tune in and we're a force for good.

The Team

We have an exciting opportunity for a UX Designer to join our User Experience team. You will play a vital role in delivering initiatives designed to transform and elevate UX in Aegon.

The Role

The ultimate purpose of the role is to contribute to the user experience (UX) design for Aegon's digital estate.

You'll play a key role, working in a team of experts (and external resources) in the creation of UX that enable commercial digitisation of the business.

You'll also ensure that key journeys and changes in our UX layer are tested via the UX Researchers, refined and optimised.

You'll have a strong passion for excellent UX and you'll articulate the importance of this in a commercial and user-centric way.

You'll be expected to utilise and share skills in the areas of innovation, ideation, concept design and visioning

Key responsibilities

UX DESIGN STRATEGY: Input into the ongoing research, definition, implementation and improvement of the teams ways of working and outputs within UX Design which will ultimately increase the wider UX team's maturity level.
RAPID PROTOTYPING AND UX DESIGN SERVICES: Provision of UX design capabilities via yourself.

This includes provision of iterative design, digital journey flow design, wireframes and visual design execution. Ensure UX designs are appropriately user tested & refined during the design lifecycle. Run regular show & tell sessions with the team, Head of Digital, Marketing Director and other stakeholders.

QUALITY CONTROL AND OPTIMISATION: Help ensure we comply with the standards for Aegon's digital estate and consult with the Lead UX Designer on the evolution and management of these.

You have a responsibility to ensure all of your outputs align with the required standards (accessibility, brand, UX best practise, technology stack considerations and Design System integration).

DESIGN SYSTEM: Assist the UI Designers with vision wireframes, valued input and feedback into the design system so it can be fully established and can evolve.

Skills and Knowledge

Competent in UX Design: Good understanding of processes and when to use including Iterative design (with wireframes or prototypes), journey mapping, design thinking, scenariobased thinking and a persona driven mindset. Proficient knowledge in current wireframing tools and techniques (e.g. Axure, Figma, Adobe creative suite).
Basic understanding in aspects of UI Design and a design system.
A good understanding of the UX Research process, methods and techniques.
Creative, innovator who works well within a team.
Self disciplined, self motivating and self improving.
Ability to share knowledge with team and influence positive outcomes across all levels, functions and channels
Ability to evaluate complex problems and use judgement and data to recommend and deliver innovative & creative solutions
Effectively communicate and present complex conceptual thinking visually and verbally

Desirable Skills and Knowledge

Fundamental knowledge of User Experience, Interaction Design & Service Design within Agile ways of working
Basic understanding of digital measurement tools, techniques, reporting and analysis
Knowledge of markets, clients and products within financial services.
Comprehensive understanding of the overall approach to marketing and customer strategy.
Good understanding of digital content management principles, technologies and workflow.

Qualifications:

Digital portfolio for review

How we look after you

Outside of a competitive salary, working with us comes with a range of benefits that you can access from day one, including:

Non-contributary pension between 8-12% dependant on age
Life assurance cover
Private medical cover and health assessments
Access to
Peppy

- a digital health app for employees of all genders with a range of support covering areas such as general health, menopause, fertility, baby etc

Critical Illness cover
A suite of enhanced parental leave policies to support you in the moments that matter
Holiday trading
Private GP appointments with Doctor at Hand
Cycle2Work scheme
2 paid days per year for charitable volunteering
Employee wellbeing is key to our culture. We offer a range of online classes to support t