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UX Designer (Permanent)

Job Description

Finstech Recruitment & Consultancy are delighted to be supporting our global insurance broking client in recruiting a User Experience (UX) Designer. The UX Designer role is aligned to the Risk Technology function within the client, who work with the Risk and Analytics business to develop web applications with the business, driven by stakeholders across our Global Regions. The UX Designer role will be embedded in the Agile delivery team and will collaborate closely on the software development. They will be an advocate for Lean UX and use rapid cycles of to build, test, and learn, using fast feedback and iterations to validate the product(s) designs before the engineers start coding.


The successful candidate will be an experienced UX designer with the ability to understand the client’s business requirements, incorporating these into the process as well as any technical limitations. They will also be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research activities and translate them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups and high-fidelity prototypes. The UX Designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.


The successful candidate will work as part of an Agile delivery team and will ideally have a background working in an Analytic or Business Intelligence environment, but this isn’t essential. The role is permanent and is paying up to £65k per annum, with 26 days holiday, up to 10% pension contribution & other benefits. The role will be based in either Ipswich or London, but there is the opportunity for hybrid working.

Responsibilities

  • Hold workshops with key members across the business to understand the problems users are facing and what the right ways of solving those challenges are.
  • Translate concepts into personas, user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
  • Facilitate the Product Owner’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
  • Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mock-ups optimized for a range of devices and interfaces.
  • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
  • Take a user-centred design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
  • Collaborate closely with other team members and stakeholders.
  • Be an advocate for Design Thinking, UX and the user centred approach.

Skills & Experience

  • 5 years+ UX design experience, with a supporting portfolio of previous work.
  • Expertise in standard UX software such as Adobe XD, Figma, or Sketch, is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
  • Expertise in standard collaboration software such as MS Teams, Slack, MIRO and Azure DevOps or JIRA.
  • A flair for UI and interaction Design.
  • Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
  • Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
  • A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
  • Ability to communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions clearly and effectively, to teams and clients.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.

Key Behaviours

  • Intentionally inclusive of others.
  • Passion for learning new technologies and understanding the needs of diverse users.
  • Curious, data-driven, and able to self-start in a dynamic, rapidly evolving environment.
  • Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
  • Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and able to deal with ambiguity.
  • Ability to work under pressure and shift priorities depending on business needs.
  • Ability to interpret business conversations and translate them into deliverables.

Job Summary

  • Location:
    Remote/Ipswich/London
  • Job Type:
    Permanent
  • Salary:
    Up to £65k + benefits
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