Senior UX Designer

Summary: The role of Senior UX Designer involves joining a public sector client for an initial 4-month contract, focusing on transforming digital services. The successful candidate will collaborate within an agile product team, producing user-centered designs and conducting user research. This position requires leadership in applying UX best practices and ensuring a consistent user experience. The role is based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow with a hybrid working arrangement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce designs based on insights delivered by UX research team members
• Work within an agile product team so that design work fits seamlessly into wider team workflow
• Provide a consistent experience to users by setting and working to appropriate quality standards, using an established design system
• Provide feedback and advice to wider design colleagues
• Plan, design and conduct user research when required, using appropriate strategies to test new ideas and concept development as well as usability testing
• Provide leadership and direction around the application of user-centred design, UX best practice and emerging trends

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience working in the field of UX design
• Proven experience in delivering design solutions to fast moving agile teams
• Experience in choosing and applying appropriate user-centred research methods
• Experience of working both independently and as part of a team, whilst balancing a range of competing priorities
• Experience of leading team meetings, webinars, events and/or conferences online
• Track record of working within project management environments, planning and organising a variety of tasks, including involvement in multiple projects and programmes of work

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Edinburgh

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Senior

Industry: IT