Senior UX Designer

Job Description

We are on a mission to improve the world of work, technology and people, building products and services to help solve our customers people-related challenges now and in the future.We design software to make processes easier, create apps to foster engagement, support organisations to get better insights from their data and much more for over 1200 organisations across the UK and Ireland.Our4-corevalues Sustainability, Trust,Collaborationand Innovation have been thedrive to MHRs success. This starts internally within our business by putting our colleagues and customers at theforefrontof everything we do.Be part of our mission, join MHR and help shape the world of work.What youll be doing:The Product Planning team are recruiting for an individual with a passion for UI/UX and a strong drive for innovation, to join as a Senior UX Designer. You will help facilitate internal and external business contacts; pulling the resulting information togetherto create simple and effective UI/UX designs.

• Understand target audiences needs and conduct user research of competitor products
• Be an excellent communicator with great mediation, facilitation and translation skills
• Craft simple and elegant solutions to difficult technical and functional problems
• Undertake research as required and attend conferences and events, documenting afterwards to extend the team knowledge
• Communicate, specify, and describe UX designs to researchers, developers, testers, PMs, senior leadership and other designers without ambiguity and within deadlines
• Be fluent in technology (especially in digital media - its concepts and direction) and able to understand it well enough to communicate comfortably with developers
• Push creativity and challenger conventional thinking to solve design problems
• Proactively identify areas of improvement in current products and designs
• Mentor junior and mid-level UX Designers
• Contribute to the leadership of the UX of current projects

Key Skills:

• Passion for UI/UX and strong drive for innovation
• Excellent ability to maintain design pattern consistency and coherence across the product
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong understanding of user testing
• Has a significant UX and wire framing, design and prototyping experience
• Have led UX design from conceptual development through to final implementation
• Experience with responsive design
• Experience of enterprise system design across multidisciplinary groups such as Development, Testing, Design and Research
• Self-directed with effective time management and leadership skills
• Excellent ability to mentor Junior and Mid-level UX Designers
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time

What youll get in return:With a great working environment and amazing colleagues, well support you professionally and personally through our learning and wellbeing programmes. In addition, we offer:

• Competitive salaries
• Option to buy additional holiday days
• Voluntary benefits scheme, ranging from private medical insurance to dental schemes
• Access to over 60 internal training courses, plus the ability to study for professional qualifications
• Coaching and mentoring programmes
• Discounted gym memberships
• Access to a GP 24/7, via SmartHealth
• Discounts and cash back on leisure, travel, technology, fashion and food
• Employee recognition programme
• Social events, including running clubs, 5-a-side football teams and more
• Subsidised restaurants across all sites, with a choice of fresh meals from our chefs each day

Keyskills :
User ExperienceUser Interface Design