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"Design is where science and art break even."
— Robin Mathew
The Senior UX Designer will lead the end-to-end UX design process across product areas and assist with the strategic planning of design initiatives. They will play a key role in shaping the overall design strategy and influencing decision-making at senior levels.
Responsibilities
- Creativity: You can effectively demonstrate your expertise in creating seamless user experiences specifically across all digital channels
- Ownership: help lead the end-to-end UX design process across product areas
- Design leadership: Assist with the strategic planning of design initiatives, aligning design efforts with broader business goals. Play a key role in shaping our overall design strategy, influencing decision-making at senior levels.
- Brand knowledge: You will be able to follow and contribute to wider branding initiatives and help facilitate our brand promise of 'feel good investing' into different experiences
- Design Systems: You have extensive knowledge in creating and maintaining components in a Figma library, bringing creative ideas to help iteration, contributing extensively to the development of our new design guidelines and component libraries.
- Collaboration: You are able to collaborate with executive and cross-functional teams and will play a key role in building and nurturing team collaboration.
- Decision making: You can make informed and strategic decisions in the design process, balancing user needs, business considerations and creative goals.
- Research: You can illustrate skills in designing and overseeing comprehensive usability testing processes, utilising both quantitive and qualitative methodologies.
- You will be an advocate for UX in the wider business looking for opportunities to showcase UX.
- You will be able to inspire and motivate team members providing mentorship and guidance.
- Contribute to weekly UX Critique sessions.
Requirements
- Naturally creative
- Confident communicator
- Strong collaboration skills
- Passionate
- Business acumen
- Brand awareness
- Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Minimum 6 years’ experience in a UX role
- Expert in prototyping software (Figma, XD etc)
- Deep understanding of user psychology
- Accessibility expertise
- Experience in guiding junior members of the team
- Expertise in juggling multiple projects
- Naturally inquisitive
- Self-motivated and ambitious
Key Skills
- Creativity
- Ownership
- Design leadership
- Brand knowledge
- Design Systems
- Collaboration
- Decision making
- Research
- Communication
- Advocacy for UX
- Mentorship
- UX Critique sessions
Benefits
- Competitive starting salary
- Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
- Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Parking at Exchange Quay
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent management programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
- Hybrid working
About Aj Bell
AJ Bell was formed in 1995 and is now one of the leading online investment platforms in the UK. We provide customers and advisers with wide investment choice, low-cost delivery, market leading online functionality and first class service to help them manage investment portfolios within SIPPs, ISAs and Dealing accounts. We are a fast growing and profitable company, with over 593,000 customers and £90.4 billion of assets under administration. We are part of the FTSE 250 on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.
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