Senior UX Designer opportunity to join our rapidly expanding CX team here at VML Enterprise Solutions 

The opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior UX Designer to join our rapidly expanding CX team, where you will work alongside specialists in UX, UI and Service Design, and Optimisation and Consulting.

Reporting into the UX Lead, this is a role requiring someone with excellent online experience, and who can confidently contribute to a project’s design activities from initial brief through to delivery.

As our Senior UX Designer, you’ll be a key part of the team and are expected to take the initiative in ensuring the customers’ needs and our client’s requirements are fully understood and met by the proposed solution. This is a practical role requiring someone with excellent technical ability who can lead and craft UX project deliverables across all phases of the design process, including running business requirements workshops, research and usability testing, and the creation of design artefacts such as journey maps, wireframes and prototypes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and running product definition and UX requirements workshops
• Scoping and managing a variety of both qualitative and quantitative research
• Analysing research data to identify and generate meaningful insights and behavioural patterns
• Using design thinking techniques to identify opportunity areas for new experiences, propositions, products and services, then help bring together the thinking around feasible, and viable solutions
• Creating design artefacts – e.g., personas, journey maps, storyboards, process flows, information architecture diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, etc
• Communicating, defending and building consensus around the desired product strategy and/or suggested design approach
• Working closely with stakeholders, fellow designers, program managers and developers, contributing to the improvement of the design quality and final user experience
• Collaborating with Account Leads, Head of UX, Head of CX and clients as a part of the creative process, understanding business drivers and provide UX leadership to clients and internal teams
• Presenting and communicating your ideas and design rationale both to working groups and C-Suite

What we want from you:

• Significant proven experience, ideally at an agency
• Compelling portfolio that demonstrates high quality, best in class UX design
• Experience owning the full UX process, including running discovery phases (both internal and external and qualitative and quantitative research), and solving complex problems using design-thinking methods and techniques
• Solid information, interaction and experience design skills
• Ability to understand the array of technical constraints, user goals and business requirements that shape current and future developments
• Able to adapt to changing priorities, complexities and ambiguity
• Excellent client communication skills
• Strong portfolio is a must

What we can offer you:

Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

AT VML Enterprise Solutions

Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.