Senior User Experience Designer in Edinburgh

*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.