UX Designer & Strategist

JOB TITLE: UX Designer & Strategist

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent/ Full-Time

REPORTING TO: Co-founder & Director of Digital Strategy

LOCATION: London / Oxford

SALARY: £27,000 - £30,000 per annum (dependant on experience)

In this role you will be responsible for breakthrough UX/UI design for websites, mobile apps and other digital experiences. In a team of multi skilled designers you will be relied upon for strong visual ideation conducting and presenting UX research and strategy for ambitious digital projects to the highest standard. You will work across the whole project from workshops, research, strategy, creative routes, design production, build and launch.

You will love collaboration, creative problem solving and interacting and presenting to our clients and partners. You are a seasoned digital designer, but you can see yourself becoming a design strategist conducting research, workshops and eventually leading design strategy as our team grows.

Responsibilities

Wireframing design ideas for presentations

Creating and presenting UX/UI analysis

Troubleshooting UX/UI design problems across production

Designing creative concepts backed up by UX research

Input and feedback on projects once they are ready for testing

Analysis of UX data such as lucky orange, Hotjar, Google Analytics providing actionable insights and rationale for design improvements

Creating full UX/UI production ready designs

Supporting our design team with feedback on design work

Proactively contribute improvements to our design process

Key skills and requirements

High Quality Portfolio Your portfolio should demonstrate creative concept driven design with a balance between UX best practice and breaking new creative barriers. You can clearly demonstrate the reason behind your project's design decisions.

Experience: A minimum of 2-3 years experience or formal training in UX/UI design. You have demonstrated your ability to learn fast and grow your crafts skills. You fully understand designing for the web and smart devices.

A solution and Ideas person You are an ideas person who finds it easy and natural to offer ideas to improve digital experiences and design in general. You lean on the edge of design strategy but you have the skills to produce production ready designs.

Software You are highly confident using digital design software creating rich prototypes such as Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch or similar. You are proficient in adobe suite software such as Photoshop and Illustrator etc. You must be highly confident in using Apple Mac OSX.

Confidence and Passion You are at home and confident presenting you and your team's ideas to clients. You are passionate about and have your finger on the pulse of great design in general.

Reasoning and Presentations You are able to clearly and convincingly communicate your ideas to others in a range of mediums from wireframes, sketches, and other visual references.

Bonus Skills

Data analysis Proficiency in medium to complex data analysis using spreadsheets, and Google Analytics.

Graphic Design, Typography and Artworking You are confident in your use of typography, are able to artwork assets such as icons, illustrations, image editing and selection.

Animation, Code and Prototypes - Ability to bring designs to life using software such as Adobe After Effects or basic HTML, Javascript and CSS skills.

Our software - You are confident in google docs and workplace software and understand other software such as Jira, Slack, Nuclino and Trello.

UX analysis - You have experience using both quantitative and qualitative research to help drive design decisions such as through Google Analytics, Hotjar, Lucky Orange or similar.

Branding - You have worked in or with an environment that is highly concerned with branding and creative concepts and direction.

Qualities

Work Hard Play Hard - You are able to balance hard work with switching off and relaxing. You are used to high intensity deadlines or environments but again are able to know your limits and manage your stress levels.

Fun You understand work is not everything and are able to have fun with your coworkers and clients as well.

Passionate You are seriously passionate about design in general and especially digital and experience design.

Up to learn something new The world of digital design is fast paced. You're always looking to upskill and adapt to new trends, best practices, software and methodologies.

Challenge accepted You have a proactive and positive air about you and to those around you. You are an optimist and love a challenge but are also realistic and not afraid to communicate concerns freely and productively - a difficult balance we know!

What Univers Labs are about:

Univers Labs is a forward-thinking digital agency that punches way above its weight. We have worked on a range of creative digital projects for clients including easyHotel, World Bank, World Economic Forum, Visa, Virgin Active, BBC and many more!

We are also unique in that we work with the world’s top creative agencies and creative directors from SomeOne in London, to Saffron, David McCandless and Made Thought.

Awards aren’t everything, but over the last 6 years, we are proud to have won two top Chartered Institute of Marketing Awards, WOTD from AWWWARDS and multiple Webby nominations, not to mention having our projects featured in Wired, The Guardian and It’s Nice That. We also made that viral web app, Super Looper.

We have some extremely exciting projects for 2021 and we want to expand the team and talent. Apply for your chance to get on board and grow with the company!

HR benefits include:

“Work Hard, Play Hard” rewards programs including such things as weekly company social events and monthly group activities/ team building.

36 days holiday per year

Generous company pension contribution

“FlexiTime” (Start / finish work at a flexible time)

Bike scheme

Paid training

We are here to help you grow, with that each team member will create a personal development plan that they will work alongside their line manager to achieve.