Assistant Manager, UI Designer, North and South Europe Digital Services Team, Enabling Functions ,London

Job Description

Your opportunityAs a UI Designer you will be joining the UK Digital Services team within our Enabling Functions. Our purpose as a team is to engage with and co-create consumer grade digital experiences for our own employees so that they feel supported and inspired by the firm. In this role you will be responsible for producing innovative and inspiring UI designs across a suite of mobile and desktop solutions. You will have opportunity to work closely with our people to understand their business requirements and to translate that into designs that solve their problems in an elegant, impactful and consistent way. Rigorous user testing is key to our success and you will be expected to work closely with our Service Designers, UX Designers and Product Managers to ensure that we deliver value for our employees at every point in the user journey. Ultimately you will become the champion for UI design across this growing and vibrant team. Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application. Your role You will work alongside a talented team of Business Analysts, UX Designers, Product Managers, Solution Architects, Developers and Quality Engineers to shape, test, validate and build new products and services that create a better experience for our 20,000 Deloitte employees. Your approach will be agile and iterative, using Design Thinking to facilitate innovation and identify opportunities to deliver value to our employees through high quality design. Your responsibilities will include: • Using the best industry tools (Sketch, Adobe, Invision, etc) to design innovative pixel perfect interfaces, using prototyping tools to bring those designs to life • Creating high quality UI design across mobile, tablet and desktop that complement and adhere to brand guidelines and design patterns • Presenting your work giving rational for your design decisions to stakeholders and taking on feedback and critique to further improve your work • Ability to give effective design feedback to others • Creation and ownership of design systems and libraries on a project • An advocate for Visual design and the design process • Understanding outputs from user and stakeholder research, synthesizing understanding of analysis and user insight to shape UI design concepts, deliverables and outcomes • Mood-boarding and sketching early conceptual thinking to help shape the design direction • Playing an active role in planning internal workshops and co-creation sessions • Always having an eye on the future and sharing inspiration and findings with internal teams, on blogs and in publications • Work effectively in diverse teams with an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution Your work, your choice At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you. Location: London The Digital Services team is based in London Deloitte campus. We are currently fully remote. Occasional travel to Amsterdam may be required. Work pattern: This is a permanent opportunity. The role can be worked on a full-time basis. "Our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and well try to accommodate." Your professional experience Overall, youre an ideas person and problem solver as well as a hands-on doer - thats important. You know it takes a mix of people to do amazing work, so you love collaborating with and learning from people with different skills, backgrounds and perspectives. If you have an interesting or unusual mix of skills yourself, even better. Youll be an ace at what you do, with a passion for digital, keen business instincts and an eye for emerging trends and behaviours. Essential: • A passion for thinking innovatively and creating intuitive and easy to use interfaces that delight end users and that solve business problems • A strong portfolio to demonstrate your UI design experience and abilities • Great attention to detail and the ability to effectively critique your work and work of others • Strong understanding of and familiarity with the end-to-end UX and UI design process, user-centred design and UX principles • The ability to get your hands on with UI design and prototyping tools (i.e. Sketch, Invision or similar) • Experience in developing rapid prototypes • Familiarity with UI trends and methodologies • Ability to effectively prioritise and plan workload to meet deadlines • A desire to contribute to the broader success of the Digital Services team • The right to live & work in the UK Your portfolio Your portfolio should demonstrate experience and abilities for all of the above, with specific focus on process and outcomes that; • show us your track record of delivering successful design outcomes, as a practitioner and a leader of teams • show us how you frame and communicate the design process • show us how you validate design decisions and make stakeholders believe in the work you and your team of designers are doing • show us how you worked with user insight to make a real difference to the designed solution • show us how you collaborated with other roles (developers, testers, etc) to implement your design successfully Your service line: Enabling Functions At Deloitte, were all about making an impact that matters, together. And nowhere is this more apparent than among our 2,000 strong Enabling Functions teams. With our combined specialist skills and business partnering expertise, we provide all the essential strategy, support and advice our client-facing colleagues need, right across the firm. This enables them to focus all of their efforts on delivering the best service possible to their clients. So not only will you be providing world-class support to our internal clients, youll be making an impact for all the hugely influential organisations Deloitte works with too. Covering all our distinct areas: Human Resources, Clients & Industries, Finance & Legal, Central Business Services, National Quality & Risk Management, Technology & Digital Services, and Real Estate, the opportunities here are vast. And whats more, you can grow your career in whatever direction you choose. Well support you all the way. 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