Senior Lead UX Designer

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Knutsford

Initial 3 Months

A highly experienced lead UX Designer to be based at client site in Knutsford. Experience of financial/banking background would be beneficial.

Skills and Requirements:

- Demonstrated experience in the field - 5+ years of hands on experience with a range

of UI/UX and interactive work and the accompanying portfolio of mobile digital

experiences.

- Demonstrated experience in senior stakeholder management - Comfortable

managing expectations, challenging and presenting to senior stakeholders.

- Knowing the tools - Expert proficiency with Axure, Omnigraffle, Balsamic, Sketch or

other relevant tools.

- Conveying concepts - Excellent Interaction design work: ability to convey concepts

through wireframes, flows and mock-ups.

- A very good understanding and appreciation of visual design- Comfort with working

closely with the visual designers to develop a creative and rich visual language; onscreen

graphic design, illustration and data visualization to compliment and enhance

the overall experience.

- Quick prototyping- Fluent and confident in creating quick and dirty prototypes for

web and/or mobile app experiences leading to high fidelity prototypes when necessary

- Technical understanding - Familiarity with development software and development

processes.

- Taking people with you - Proven ability to act as a leader in communicating UX design

design rationale, all within a user-centered design process through engaging story

telling to ultimately sell the vision.

- Managing your time and managing others - Must be self-motivated to prioritise and

manage workload and meet critical project milestones and deadlines as well as

manage others. Ideally this may include line management and development of nonsenior

team members.

- Solving problems- Excellent problem-solving skills.

- Working in teams- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build good working

relationships across the business.

- Passionate about the field you work in - Strong interest in the latest design, UX and

technology trends, with a drive to be a trend setter within your field of expertise.

- Very good commercial awareness - Appreciation and understanding of the

commercial landscape and ecommerce trends