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-centred 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.
 

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