UX Design Lead

SUMMARY:
My client in the Northern Suburbs is looking for to employ a UX Design Lead. As a UX Lead, you will support and mentor the Design team in all aspects of the human-centered design process. You will partner with the product team to achieve customer and business objectives and help create a design-oriented environment. Your skill, attitude and understanding of decisions made in the past will be used to guide this team into the future.

POSITION INFO:

Together with the Experience Design team you will:

·         Mentor, guide, and support Experience Design team members to self-organise in deliver a simple, consistent, and frictionless user experience.

·         Coordinate communication and UX strategy across a semi-distributed team.

·         Facilitate discovery workshops.

·         Support the team in all UX related activities, including creating user journeys, low-fidelity wireframes, conducting usability tests, user interviews and research.

·         Support the UI Lead with the design system implementation, based on identified consistent UX patterns.

·         Refine and implement the Experience Design team’s vision and strategy with the support of the Product Manager.

·         Understand and support the Experience Design team’s priorities alongside Product Owners and Product Managers.

Skills and requirements needed:

·         A proven track record of at least 3 years UX Lead experience.

·         Experience working in an Agile/ Scrum development process.

·         A diploma or equivalent in the User Experience design field.

·         A portfolio of work done to date.

·         Experience with inspiring, mentoring and supporting a UX/ Experience Design team to enable them to deliver their best work.

·         User-centred design experience.

·         Expertise in rapid prototyping software, such as Figma and Miro.

·         A comprehensive understanding & experience of user testing (the tools and the facilitation/ coordination)

·         Product research & data analysis.

·         Basic HTML5 & CSS3 are a plus.

·         Good communication skills will assist you in presenting concepts and ideas in a way that’s simple to understand.

·         Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

To apply please send your CV to melanie@------

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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