Senior UX Designer

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Senior UX Designer

Role overview:

As a Senior UX Designer, not only will you work toward user-centric solutions in a collaborative and pragmatic way, but you will ensure that the wider team operates at a high level, and offer support and mentorship to junior members of the team.

Responsibilities:

• To liaise closely with colleagues across the business to ensure that the programme meets the users and business requirements
• To design concepts and deliver these to a high standard
• To be able to drive the direction of concepts relay this to the team
  To engage with, and sometimes even carry out, research and relay findings to the team in relation to UX deliverables
• Ability to translate technical concepts into user friendly resources
• The ability to utilise evidence from research finding to make effective decisions
• To ensure that the team utilise a user-centric way of working
• Use the business/industries best ways of working/guidelines a to ensure design standards are high
• Share knowledge with colleagues across the business to build inclusive/effect ways of working
• To keep your knowledge up to date with current trends and changes in working UX practices

Role objectives and KPI's:

• UX Benchmarking
• (Time on task, Customer Satisfaction, Task Success Rate, User Error Rates)

Skills and Experience:

• Proven track record of UX/UI design experience, prototyping, user journey creation and creative problem solving.
• Experience ensuring all designs are in keeping with our brand guideline and are accessibility compliant
• Track record transforming business requirements, data points and user needs into creative solutions that meet the strategic goal
• Experience working with Agile delivery methods and teams
• Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: AdobeXD, Figma, HTML, CSS (SCSS), iOS, Android, Design Systems, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks based on business objectives

Training requirements for the role:

• Experience with broader Quantitative experimentation strategies
• Awareness and understanding of how experimentation factors commercially to the business
• Broader understanding of product strategy

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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