Senior UX Designer
Senior UX Designer at digital consultancy Red Badger, based in Leeds, embedded in client-facing cross-functional teams working in Lean/Agile ways. Day to day: user research and testing, prototyping from paper to hi-fi in tools like Figma/Sketch, facilitating workshops and design sprints, advising clients, and mentoring other designers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Leeds
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience working in lean/agile environments
- In-depth knowledge of Human-Centred Design and Design Thinking
- Advised engineers, insights and QA on UX practices as part of a cross-functional team
- Worked with clients, presenting design concepts and running workshops
- Can lead UX activities on a project
- Working knowledge of industry-standard tools, such as Sketch/Figma, plus aptitude to learn new tools
- Experience designing mobile-first responsive sites & mobile native apps
- Can plan and run user testing at various levels of fidelity - from guerilla to lab testing
- Able to work closely as part of a cross-functional team as the sole UX Designer
- Leverage understanding of front-end development to inform design decisions
- Apply product management principles to support design and delivery of digital products
- Apply Service Design methodologies to surface insights and design/test experiences
- Influence Product Strategy to develop, build and test new business opportunities
- Leverage emerging technologies to enhance the user experience
Full description
Founded in 2010 by Stuart, Cain and David, we help large organisations improve their speed to market whilst focusing on delivering value to their users and customers. We work with our clients to understand their problems and validate ideas in order to deliver improved process efficiencies, strategic enhancements and new digital products and services (or make significant improvements to existing ones).
You are a people person. As a trusted consultant, you develop rapport with your clients from Day 1. You are a master facilitator who loves simplifying complexity at various levels of the organisation but also has the humility to learn what you don't know. You're proactive in championing user needs and creating opportunities for customer research early and often and you take your team along in the journey with you so that you're all building the right thing together. You expertly switch between your divergent and convergent hats. You use your craft to produce designs at various levels of fidelity to bring the vision to life and iterate fast and often. You are comfortable working closely with Product and Technology teams to build the thing right too.
The role
As a Senior User Experience Designer, you are an integral part of a client-facing cross-functional team working in Lean Agile ways of working. You are responsible for understanding the needs of clients and customers and designing ways to deliver value to them.
You are a people person, and as a trusted advisor, you develop rapport with your clients and your team. You are a master facilitator who loves simplifying complexity at various levels of the organisation and has the humility to learn what you don't know.
You're proactive in championing user needs and creating opportunities for customer research early and often. You take the team on the journey with you, so you're building the right thing
together. You expertly switch between your divergent and convergent hats and use your craft to produce designs at various levels of fidelity to bring the vision to life. You are comfortable
working closely with Product and Technology teams to build the thing right, iterating fast and often.
Key responsibilities Discipline expertise:
- Auditing existing user experience
- Prototyping at various levels of fidelity - from paper to hi-fi click-throughs
- Design the user experience from discovery through to delivery
- Conducting user research and user testing early, often and throughout delivery
- Designing and facilitating workshops and design sprints
Collaborative leader
- Coaching your team and your clients on Design Thinking, Lean, and Human-Centred Design