Lead UX Designer - London, United Kingdom - Moneybox

Moneybox

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a Lead UX Designer, you will be responsible for setting the direction for your mission area and guiding the team to deliver value to our customers.

You have experience within all stages of the UX / UI design process but are now a specialist in UX.

You will manage a team of two designers who you will mentor and help to develop, raising the UX practice and getting teams working in a way that makes great products.

Therefore management experience is essential.

You will be responsible for partnering closely with Product and Engineering leads and cross-functional peers to set the design vision and direction for the experience of your mission team, helping to make sure long-term strategy, business goals and experience quality are all in alignment and that there are healthy opportunities for visibility and feedback.

You must have roughly 8 years of design experience and a portfolio demonstrating your UX design process and design of digital products and features for native apps.

You should have an interest in technology, an eye for detail and a desire to learn on the go and think on your feet.

What you'll do:

This role will be responsible for but not limited to the following:
Hands-on design and ownership of a mission design team. This includes establishing, driving and articulating a vision. Making sure it compliments a cohesive overall Moneybox experience, and delivering on incremental steps to help the team head in this direction.
You will report directly to the Head of Product Design and be based in the London office on a hybrid basis (2 days per week in the office).
You'll have weekly 121 sessions with your line manager to encourage development and growth.
You will manage two other designers, being responsible for their output and all aspects of their development and growth. Ensuring all the team's members are challenged and motivated.
You'll collaborate regularly using strong communication, documentation and facilitation skills. You'll work closely with product managers, data scientists and engineering teams to make sure your team isn't just shipping great designs, but they are deeply involved throughout the design process.
You will be responsible for the experience of a product or feature, specifically; screen structures, navigation, key flows aligned with personas, IA, functionality and usability.
Iterating and testing solutions to check it solves the problem.
Alongside the UI Lead, you'll advocate for polished, magical, intuitive and accessible user experiences from your team.
Your overall design thinking and principles should run through the team and be a guardian of excellent UX practice.
You'll help raise the bar for design at Moneybox. Every designer plays a critical role in improving our community of practice.
You'll regularly work with design leaders and product leadership. This is to help make sure longterm strategy, business goals and experience quality are all in alignment and that there are healthy opportunities for visibility and feedback.
Drive and support crossteam initiatives that make the Design practice at Moneybox better such as improving our hiring processes, expanding our community presence, interviewing potential new team members and much more.
Have company wide impact from a design perspective.
Influence, challenge and enable teams to deliver high quality product experiences.

Who you are:

A driven designer with 8 years minimum experience delivering both UX and UI design in digital including experience in mobile and app.
Experience with each stage of the design UX/UI design process but more recently specialising in UX.
Possess a portfolio full of projects outlining your UX process.
You're a master in research, synthesising users needs/wants/pain points, concept development, rapid prototyping & testing.
You have an awareness of context, expanding beyond the realms of design to encompass a broader business context; identifying outcomes and goals, establishing KPIs that will help to deliver these successfully.
You're pragmatic and able to balance the ideal experience with knowing where and when to make scoping tradeoffs based on technical constraints, experimentation strategy or business risk.
Ability to design products and features that match how people think and behave, with a high attention to detail.
Someone who leads by example, with 2+ years of management experience with direct reports under your guidance.
Ability to distil requirements, providing clear guidance to designers, defining the task, goals and outcomes as well as supporting and providing clear feedback.
You're an excellent communicator who can convey your ideas and thought process, understanding and building relationships with a crosssection of team members.
You thrive in a fast paced environment where you can use lightweight processes, creative ideas and quick iteration to have a huge impact.
Quick learner, ability to t