Senior Ux Designer

ABOUT US

We’re the team behind your favourite digital products, and the platforms that power them. We make every moment magical, everywhere. Our team is made up of self-motivated, big thinkers who have a knack for solving problems and find new ways to captivate millions of customers by putting them at the heart of everything we do. Our design focus ranges from websites and mobile apps to entertainment platforms and connectivity devices. We put the user of tomorrow at the centre of everything we do, and we can’t wait to get started on what’s next.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior User Experience Designer who thrives on solving complex challenges and is energised by creating products to join our London studio! You’ll be part of an agile team, leading workshops or interviews with our senior corporate clients as well as startup-founders to help them understand their businesses and customers more deeply and to drive innovation.At WONGDOODY our approach to UX is lean and user-centered. We workshop ideas and solutions with clients and internal teams and sketch out ideas.

We have a fast-paced, prototype-driven workshop approach called ‘Conversation to Creation’ (C2C) in which you’d play a key role. We run these workshops with startup founders and clients to kick-off new, transformational products and distill in weeks what others would take months for. We don’t stop at concepts and prototypes, we deliver real products to customers and iterate upon them. As a Senior UX Designer, you play a key role throughout this process. We embrace change and exploration; everyone at WONGDOODY is committed to creating the best possible product.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create world-class products and experiences.
• Gather business requirements, market research, and user needs, and distill them into actionable insights. Derive hypotheses, communicate them effectively, and test them.
• Lead your team and the client on a journey of product creation based on these insights. Design and communicate effectively through diagrams, sketches, designs, and prototypes.
• Work with WONGDOODY Europe's leadership to help achieve the company’s goals, to improve our ways-of-working and engagements with clients.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research using a variety of methods, incl. managing a third-party.
• Lead interdisciplinary teams of 2 to 10 people from initial sketches and prototypes through final design.
• Inspire and motive an energetic and collaborative team and let them inspire you.
• Mentor the junior members of the team.
• Drive yourself and your team to create the best, well-crafted product.
• Work with the development and QA teams to ensure the product is understood and be part of the creation of the product throughout the process.
• Pitch work to clients and partners, facilitate workshops with c-suite clients.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience working at leading digital agencies.
• Portfolio of complex, digital experiences for global brands across mobile, tablet, and web channels, such as large CMS sites, e-commerce, apps, etc. Highlight your contribution to each project, and what makes the solution you devised innovation and smart.
• Experience in working as part of startup businesses a plus.
• The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build').
• Have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication skills: being able to explain design rationale, to align and persuade stakeholders, and to drive conversations.
• A solid understanding of all the other disciplines needed to create a brilliant product, such as business, technology, delivery, marketing, and content.
• Proficiency in Keynote, Sketch, Invision (currently our default toolset).
• Experience creating a digital strategy and content strategy, and with the design and execution of user testing and research studies.
• A sense of humour!

TO APPLY: For full consideration please upload a CV and links to your portfolio.

WONGDOODY is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We are intentional about creating a space which not only celebrates and embraces, but also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.