UX Designer | Leeds | 3 Months Rolling

UX Designer | Leeds | 3 Months Rolling

A leading media company based in Leeds are looking for a UX Designer to join the team to work on a range of different projects. This contract will give you the opportunity to work within a collaborative team, develop new and existing skills and create work to put into your portfolio.

Responsibilities:

Facilitate discovery workshops (landscape analysis, user testing, business requirements gathering)

• Work with business to help define deliverables, and timescales for assigned projects.
• Develop concept documents and define features and functionality and create necessary documentation.
• Own deliverables, including: audience personas, competitive and landscape analyses, concept documentation. (information architecture, content strategy, user journeys, wireframes), and deliver high level prototypes.
• Inspire, lead, and develop trust, with stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Mentoring, performance management, and training of assigned team members.
• Work collaboratively as part of an agile delivery team review implementation of UXD to ensure business meets users expectations.
• Analyze Quant web metrics, and Qual feedback to help shape future changes ensure we deliver improving experience.
• Management of UX resource accountable for delivering sky online ecommerce experience

The ideal UX Designer will have experience in:

• Graduate degree in Cognitive Science, HCI, or at least +5 years full time UX focused career
• Experience in a similar large media company or leading digital agency, or at least +3 years working for or on an ecommerce experience
• Proven experience in UCD, human interface guidelines, standards, and best practices as they apply to platforms and devices
• Solid understanding of user-centred design principles and methodologies, with an ability to conduct competitor analysis and benchmarking, create user journeys, user flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Experience working within an agile delivery environment, and in a highly collaborative manner with multiple skill sets
• Experience of designing digital services for consumption over web, mobile and social platforms
• Proven ability to drive increase in audience engagement through design
• Strong background in gathering business requirements and translating these into workflows, wireframes and sitemaps

If this looks like something you’re interested in, please click ‘apply’ or email epeacock@welovesalt.com

UX Designer | Leeds | 3 Months Rolling