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Senior UI/UX Designer/PO

Company Introduction

We are a growing sixty-plus team based in Leeds who build and deliver large scale app and game projects for international clients such as Mattel, PBS and DreamWorks. We have a huge variety of projects and technologies, so there’s always something new and interesting to work on.

Job Description

We are looking for a user-experience designer with experience working as or with a Product Owner.

Responsible for designing child centric apps and game interfaces and being the vision holder for the product. You will design the overall functionality of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience by designing and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes.

Working with a PM you will manage the delivery of the product through it's full life-cycle. Using an agile framework to communicate the requirements for each Sprints delivery to our development team.

You will represent the client, be passionate about the product and be responsible for creating a high quality delivery that meets the clients requirements.

Responsibilities

• Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate client’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Define Stories for the development team with user acceptance criteria and manage the backlog for each sprint.
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas.

Requirements

• Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments.
• Experience working with an Agile Methodology (Jira, Confluence)
• Expertise in UX software such as Proto.io, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer.js, Quartz Composer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, Photoshop and JavaScript skills are a plus.
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be willing to help teammates, share knowledge and experience with them, and learn from them.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
• A related degree or equivalent industry experience