Job Description*Job title: Senior UX Designer
*Rate: £45.51 p/h PAYE (ca 82k pa pro rata)
*Job type: Permanent Position
*Location: Edinburgh, 2-3 days in their offices
*Start Date: 09/09/2024
*Estimated End Date: 05/30/2025
Aquent is seeking an experienced and passionate Senior UX Designer for a new contract position based in Edinburgh.
A multinational cloud-based software company specialising in a series of products designed to drive creative innovation across multimedia.
Overall Responsibilities:
- Drive. Passion and skill to transform ambiguity into clear, detailed designs.
- Curiosity. Bring a new perspective to the business landscape by crafting delightful experiences for admins, teams, and enterprises.
- Systems Thinking. Unify patterns between multiple touchpoints and systems to create cohesive end-to-end experiences across surfaces, apps, teams, and technologies.
- Simplify. Translate complex problems into simple, practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data.
- Collaborate. Drive collaboration with multiple project partners, including product managers, engineers, marketing managers and other designers.
- Visualize. Bring design to life. Articulate the need and proposed solutions through sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations across all levels of the organization.
Requirements
- Experience using design thinking and service design tools to tackle complex business problems.
- Experience (and a love of!) solving sophisticated design and technology problems using systems thinking.
- Proven track record of delivering designs that meet user needs and business requirements.
- Creative and analytical skills to facilitate research, synthesize and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to communicate designs and strategy persuasively and concisely to all functions and levels, including executives.
- Strong operational skills with the ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and drive close collaboration and alignment between design, product development, engineering and business.
- Strong visual design skills with a keen eye for detail and a desire to achieve pixel-perfect precision in the finished product.
To apply for this hybrid Senior UX Designer position in Edinburgh, please contact Aquent today.
*Due to the high volume of responses, if you have not received a response in 48 hours please take it that you have unfortunately been unsuccessful.
Aquent is a leading talent services company, providing marketing and creative talent, managed services, extended workforce benefits, project management, and professional development. Founded in a dorm room in 1986, Aquent now employs 10,000 people each year across eight countries.
Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.