Lead UX/UI Designer Full Time

Richmond, Surrey
83Zero Ltd

Job Tittle: Lead UX/UI Designer

Location: South West London – 2 days a week

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum+ Bonus

83zero is currently partnered with an award-winning online retailer/E-commerce organisation who have grown immensely in the past few years and is now looking to hire an experienced Lead UX/UI Designer

We are looking for a passionate Lead UX/UI Designer with advanced UX/UI skills to join our growing Product team. You must be enthusiastic about building outstanding experiences and think deeply about the customer, user experience and visual design, and finding solutions that allow customers to intuitively use our client’s products. The ideal candidate will be skilled at each stage of the design process but always focused on the needs of the customer.

They offer amazing benefits like yearly pay reviews and bonuses, wellbeing support, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave and pay.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product Owners, stakeholders and Developers at every stage of the process to shape the future of our client’s digital products.
• Produce elegant responsive UI Designs for customer-facing mobile and web experiences
• Leading and implementing using your UX skills and knowledge of UX standard methodologies.
• Conduct user research through qualitative and quantitative methods to inform and validate solutions
• Drive and encourage big ideas and innovative design
• Ensure our multi-brand design system and all its parts are both beautifully crafted and well-maintained
• Illustrate your thinking and communicate ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Perform and lead others with strong visual design skills and technical knowledge of implementing and feeding into design systems.

Relevant Skills and Experience:

• Creativity underpinned with knowledge of best practice in design
• Outstanding UI and UX design expertise
• Be a brand guardian, ensuring the work aligns to brand guidelines and be able to evolve brand identities
• 5+ years experience as a digital designer
• 2+ years experience in leading and mentoring other designers
• Strong proficiency with the latest tools and software such as, Figma, Sketch, Adobe creative suite and prototyping tools
• Experience building design systems, or have plenty of practice working with them
• Exceptionally skilled at image curation, visual storytelling, typography, layout, form and colour
• A strong UI and UX portfolio that showcases your experience working on end-to-end web and mobile projects.
• Ability to empathise with customers and understand their needs and pain points
• Be a natural collaborator with diverse teams in a multi-faceted, rapid-growth environment

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of HTML/CSS
• Knowledge of the wider suite of Adobe programs
• Motion skills a plus
• Experience working in E-commerce platforms and female-centric brand