Senior UX Designer
Cancer Research Uk 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
The Senior UX Designer will lead user research and experience design across various initiatives, supporting junior team members and collaborating with stakeholders. They will also identify opportunities for UX to add value and drive the delivery of the UX strategy.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support user research and experience design work across several initiatives
- Support junior members of the UX team, and liaise with leadership to understand the work that can have the greatest impact
- Work on strategically important external and internal facing products and services, sensitively navigating research and co-design, partnering with stakeholders across the organisation to design user-focused solutions
- Identify opportunities for UX to add value across upcoming initiatives
- Line manage 2-3 direct reports and play a key role in mentoring, coaching, and supporting more junior UX design team members across the UX team
Requirements
- Senior User Experience Designer and/or/Researcher with in-depth experience independently leading, delivering, and completing multiple UX projects simultaneously
- Empathy- with a proven ability and awareness of navigating sensitive topics in research with a wide range of audiences
- Strong design skills covering key UX processes, including user research, interviews, competitor analysis, persona/archetype creation, user journey mapping, running design workshops, design sprints, prototyping using Figma, usability testing, lean UX, accessibility and inclusive design, heuristic evaluations, contextual inquiry, survey writing, design system use
Key Skills
- UX design
- User research
- User testing
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Figma
- Design systems
- Design thinking
- Agile methodologies
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Cross-functional collaboration
Benefits
- Competitive salary (£45,000 - £50,000) + benefits
- Opportunity to work on high-impact projects
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment
- Professional development and growth opportunities
About Cancer Research Uk
Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, influence and information. Nearly one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime, but we’re finding new ways to outsmart it, so that more people can live longer, better lives free from the fear of cancer. We carry out scientific research to help prevent, diagnose and treat cancer and our groundbreaking work, funded almost entirely by the general public, will ensure that millions more people survive. Together we are beating cancer. Registered charity No. 1089464.
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