Vacancy: UX designer

We are now recruiting for a UX Designer to join our Brand team, on a 12month fixed-term contract, working part-time at our Swindon offices located on key transport links in the town centre.

About the role

The UX Designer is responsible for designing intuitive, user-centred digital experiences that meet user needs and business goals.

The role spans the UX product design lifecycle from research to high-fidelity design, conducting user research, creating lo and hi-fi wireframes, prototyping, and supporting development teams to bring your design concepts to life.

The UX Designer will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless execution of design solutions, representing the user at all times and advocate best practices in UX design, contributing to the continuous improvement of our digital products and services.

Key responsibilities:

• User research
  Plan and conduct moderated and unmoderated user research selecting appropriate techniques to meet research goals. Facilitate interviews, surveys, and usability testing, to understand and identify user needs, behaviours, pain points and opportunities, turning research into actionable outputs and recommendations e.g. reports / personas

• Usability testing and expert reviews
  Conduct expert reviews using usability heuristics or plan and conduct usability tests, to validate design assumptions.
  Champion user feedback and use it to iteratively improve designs

• Collaboration
  Work closely with stakeholders and professionals from across the business to capture requirements and represent user needs.
  
  Act as the voice of the user at all times and communicate and champion user needs and your designs.

• Wireframing and prototyping
  Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups to visualise design concepts and workflows, basing designs off requirements, jobs to be done and personas.

• UI & Interactive Design
  Design intuitive, attractive, and user-friendly interfaces that align with brand identity and user needs whilst ensuring designs meet accessibility guidelines and follow the BCS design system.

• Design system
  Work closely with the Lead UX Designer, to ensure the design system, guidelines, and best practices are maintained to ensure design consistency.

• Continuous Improvement
  Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies, and incorporate them into the design process.

• Flexibility is required of all job holders to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by their Line Manager/Divisional Director.

• Strive to live the BCS’ values and support our purpose.

• Continually looking at ways to make improvements to systems, processes, and procedures.

BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential, and also offer a generous benefit package.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT are committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.

All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.

PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.

In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate, therefore if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.