UX Designer - London, United Kingdom - Morgan McKinley

Morgan McKinley

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Position Title:
UX Designer

Location:
London 6PS (6 Pancras Square)

Assignment duration:
from 6th February 2023 until 4th August 2023

Onsite schedule:
Hybrid Working (Tuesday-Thursday onsite, Mondays & Fridays remotely)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Independently complete endtoend tasks that are integrated into an overarching project or program.
Navigate project constraints with engineers and managers to ensure design quality achieves required results.
Plan, balance, manage, and execute prioritized work, making progress independently to achieve welldefined design objectives.
Independently make decisions that improve quality and/or consistency within a feature or project level scope of work (e.g., process, team, deliverables).
Address lowtomedium complexity design and/or user problems by leveraging established design principles and patterns.
Proactively identify, define, and communicate problems within the project or product team(s), and deliver practical and/or creative ways to fix them.
Recognize when the solution being proposed is not ideal and communicate with team leads to identify alternative solutions.
Develop relationships with one or more team(s) and contribute to crossproject collaborations by planning, navigating, executing, and communicating user needs, constraints, and opportunities.
Provide training and guidance to junior UX designers.
Integrate smaller teams where necessary to align assigned components of a project or program with the goals, timelines, and objectives of the overarching project or program.
Leverage and improve upon team design principles and processes as needed.

Expertise

Utilize working knowledge of UX design principles, style guides, usercentered product development, user data analysis, and primary research methods and tools.
Demonstrate proficient understanding of the impact of design contributions on product value, user needs, business goals, and brand equity.

Responsibilities under the direction of Manager:

Advocate UX design
Help gain support for design strategy across partners. Communicate design approach to other designers or partners (e.g., product manager), and identify challenges and questions.

Create design deliverables
Collaborate with engineers to communicate and/or influence design intention. Manage specifications (e.g., red-lines, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.

Creating design solutions
Help create innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. Adapt to evolving design constraints and communicate rationale of choices related to design solutions.

Design execution

Design process and vision (UX Design)
Lead contributions to a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. Assist in design and testing processes, and generate support for a design vision with partners.

Designing for impact
Help create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business objectives.

Designing for user needs

Create design concepts (e.g., mock-ups, prototypes, models) for informing product ideation and user research/testing or conduct research independently to inform design.

Iteration of design

Iteratively improve design based on UX testing and partner/stakeholder input with mínimal guidance, and provide feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.

Planning and prioritization
Plan and prioritize design work across projects, and communicate priorities to team members. Collaborate with partners to identify opportunities to expand responsibilities within the immediate product team.

Understanding the product
Use and help propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact. Understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating with team members when developing design solutions.

Understanding user needs

Analyze or anticipate user needs through collaboration with others and identify defined problems that may have multiple solutions in strategy, product, or technology.

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency and references to pay rates are indicative.