User Experience Designer

Job Description

About SAGE:SAGE is an independent, leading academic and professional publisher. We are a growing company, with over 1,500 employees based in London, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Singapore, New Delhi and Melbourne. We believe that education is intrinsicallyvaluable to a healthy society and were dedicated to producing high quality content in our books, journals and digital products. Were passionate about contributing to our local communities; we run a diverse mix of community-based programs each year and wemake sure everyone has the chance to get involved.About the UX Team: You will report into the User Experience Team. Were a small, collaborative group of researchers, designers and analysts focused on the end-to-end experience of our products: from discoveryand access to navigation, engagement and conversion. Our mission is to support the building of bridges to knowledge by making those bridges useful, usable, discoverable and accessible. While youll report into the UX Team, day-to-day you will work closelywith the project managers, business analysts and developers working on our internal publishing systems.Could you be our new UX Designer Are you: Experienced with standard research methods such as user testing, interviews, focus groups, card sorting and competitoranalysis. Collaborative, with a work style geared towards co-creating solutions with fellow team members and other stakeholders. Able to effectively communicate design decisions and tell the story of the design. Able to draw insights from qualitative and quantitativedata to inform designs. Skilled in information architecture, with a knack for representing complex information with clarity. Passionate about web accessibility with a track record of designing inclusive and accessible experiences. Able to work quickly andefficiently to create desktop and mobile wireframes in at least one rapid prototyping tool, quickly revising and iterating on your work if necessary.Your New Role: Working on our internal publishing systems, your role will be to: Lead on critical design discoverywork, including capturing, documenting and communicating user needs. Clearly communicate outcomes with standard tools of the trade, such as user flows, affinity maps and personas. Collaborate with fellow team members to craft a vision for the user experiencethat meets business and user goals, and work with wider stakeholders to bring them on board. Deliver strong concepts, from initial sketches to flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes, quickly iterating on designs. Seek early feedback from stakeholdersto ensure that your designs work within any constraints set by branding, systems, standards and technology. Work with users to solicit feedback on design work, including user testing of prototypes. Hand over to visual designers and developers, leaving themwith a solid understanding of the design decisions taken and remaining on hand to co-create solutions to any problems that arise downstream. Conduct acceptance testing to ensure that the developed product lives up to the experience as designed.DIVERSITY &INCLUSIONAt SAGE Publishing we embrace diversity and Inclusion. We seek to promote the benefits of diversity in all of our business activities and develop a business culture that reflects that belief. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespectiveof age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief as creating value through diversity is what makes us strong. As a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, wereopen to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.