Current Vacancies

User Experience Designer / Architect

Company: Futureheads Recruitment Ltd
Posted: 20th Jan 2012
Location: Central London
Salary: Up to £45k
Contract Type: Permanent
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Permanent
Ref: J1691

Key Skills

New perm UX role - central London publisher / events company - 45k

Details

Hello,

If the economy can be gauged on the strength of the jobs market, then user experience is clearly very resilient, or obstinate, as I have another new perm role to brief you on. This is for a global publishing company, based in beautiful bespoke offices in Central London, with interests in print, digital, events, conferences, and information / analytics services, all of which you may well be involved in. Great team, utopian process, and lovely perks. This will pay up to 45k for the right person.

These guys are have a huge number of print publications in their stable, all reinforced with a strong digital presence, as well as a collection of websites and applications that are used by industry experts to absorb and analyse market information and trends. Every interest the company currently has already includes a digital presence, but UX has only had a permanent presence within the company since the last 12 months, so the user experience of those digital products is lacking in some areas. The team (currently 4) have been working across multiple projects, based in business priority, to overhaul the UX of these products, whilst at the same time evangelising and educating the internal teams on the benefits. This has led to further investment by the business, and this role. Nice.

The process has been built from scratch, without compromise. 'We don't design a thing until we know who we are designing for, and how they want us to design it'; the words of the UX manager, who has years of experience in banking and complex data heavy digital products. Everything is predicated on solid research and user engagement, from ethnography and observational studios, running around town centres speaking to people, workshops and interviews, testing and analytics, anything and everything. Then, a rapid, iterative process, lots of sketching and prototyping, ratifying and iterating. All nice stuff.

There is still a certain amount of evangelisation to be done, and this person must be business savvy and confident communicator to help spread the power of UX around the business, but the CEO and CTO are invested (both literally and figuratively), so the rest should be easy.

Let me know!

For more information, please contact:
Ben Tregoing
ben@wearefutureheads.co.uk