Head of UX – [016393
- Recruiter
- Confidential
- Location
-
Lancashire
North West EnglandUnited Kingdom
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 28 Nov 2020
- Closes
- 26 Dec 2020
- Job Title
- Director
- Category
- Information Technology
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Your Department
Based in our Manchester office, you will help to establish UX as a dedicated, highly–visible and critically important department within the company.
You will be given full responsibility and control for deciding how the department operates, the techniques and methodologies employed, and the type of team and people required to grow our capabilities.
You will have the full backing of the leadership team to realise your ideas in one of the most exciting and glamorous industries in the world.
Your Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Products & Innovation, your responsibilities will include:
* Design and develop an overarching UX strategy for the business
* Act as leader and mentor to a department of UX Designers embedded across our products teams, providing inspiration and motivation to build an unstoppable team that promotes a culture of design excellence
* Establish and advocate best practice techniques and methods for all aspects of UX, Interaction Design and Visual Design, including research, prototyping, testing and implementation
* Lead on efforts to implement consistent, high–quality, and user–centric experiences across our full product portfolio
* Taking a hands–on approach in collaborating with product teams to ensure world class UX on a range that includes applications for both business users and end–consumers
* Promote and follow–through on design–first principles with greenfield applications as well as creating strategies for rejuvenating existing user interfaces
* Oversee the introduction of a library of internal UI design patterns, components and a shared design vocabulary
* Play a major role in the discovery and innovation activities around the early–stage formation of new products and features
* Implement programs of research with the aim of better understanding users and the business processes with which they engage
Based in our Manchester office, you will help to establish UX as a dedicated, highly–visible and critically important department within the company.
You will be given full responsibility and control for deciding how the department operates, the techniques and methodologies employed, and the type of team and people required to grow our capabilities.
You will have the full backing of the leadership team to realise your ideas in one of the most exciting and glamorous industries in the world.
Your Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of Products & Innovation, your responsibilities will include:
* Design and develop an overarching UX strategy for the business
* Act as leader and mentor to a department of UX Designers embedded across our products teams, providing inspiration and motivation to build an unstoppable team that promotes a culture of design excellence
* Establish and advocate best practice techniques and methods for all aspects of UX, Interaction Design and Visual Design, including research, prototyping, testing and implementation
* Lead on efforts to implement consistent, high–quality, and user–centric experiences across our full product portfolio
* Taking a hands–on approach in collaborating with product teams to ensure world class UX on a range that includes applications for both business users and end–consumers
* Promote and follow–through on design–first principles with greenfield applications as well as creating strategies for rejuvenating existing user interfaces
* Oversee the introduction of a library of internal UI design patterns, components and a shared design vocabulary
* Play a major role in the discovery and innovation activities around the early–stage formation of new products and features
* Implement programs of research with the aim of better understanding users and the business processes with which they engage