UX Designer

Description

At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With excellent benefits, including an employee share scheme and profit related quarterly bonus, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – so if you’re a great person and an amazing designer we’d love to hear from you.

You will work with other designers, researchers, community specialists, PM leadership and engineering leadership to create forward-thinking design strategy, user scenario-driven features, and meet business goals. At the core of this job, candidates will identify user-centred design patterns, establish scenarios, place designs into user context and create interactions that align to those requirements. Candidates must be able to articulate their thinking using a variety of mediums from information diagrams and wireframes to user-flows and detailed prototypes. You will need to show attention to detail and passion in the work you produce. A solid understanding of graphic/visual design is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Guide and execute strategic design deliverables for multiple feature areas;
• Help solve complex design problems in simple and intuitive ways, blending brand personality, interactions and visuals to create delightful experiences;
• Synthesise qualitative and quantitative data to derive personas, use cases, concepts, user journeys and information architecture;
• Create a range of deliverables: personas, customer journey maps, wireframes, information architecture documentation;
• Represent Experience Services, in both an end-to-end design and an ad-hoc consultancy basis, to other teams throughout Lockwood;
• Work closely and constructively with design, community, engineering and management to ensure the overall business strategy is on track with the smooth delivery of designs;
• Communicate progress and highlight issues efficiently to ensure smooth feature development;
• Present and sell your designs to stakeholders with appropriate levels of detail;
• Keep abreast of latest practices, techniques and emerging technologies within the industry and employ these to develop ideas and inspire creative concepts;
• You will advocate for design in the context of business and user goals;