Transform is hiring Senior UX/UI Designer

Full TimeUI/UX Design

Posted 29d ago

We're Transform.

We turn data and tech into competitive advantage and social impact for the world's most complex organisations, both public and private.

Organisations like Toyota, the Cabinet Office, Transport for London, Public Health England, Historic Royal Palaces, HM Courts and Tribunal Service, Santander, Department for Education and Domino’s. To name but a few.

We're not here to generate more business for ourselves. We're here to create startling, ambitious outcomes for clients - leaving them with the capabilities they need to take it from there.

We love creating real change. Making a big impact on people's lives. Optimising services, driving business growth or realising social change.

To do that, we built an inclusive, high-performance culture where the world's most talented people do the best work of their careers.

That's what gets us out of bed every day. We hope you feel the same.

We're part of the Next 15 group, a multi-national organisation spanning over 25 brands. Brands like ours, looking to stand out from the crowd as they deliver best in class work for their clients. Find out more at: www.transformUK.com

Senior UX/UI Designer (Hybrid 2-3 days per week in Manchester office/client site)

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior UX/UI Designer you will be working across a variety of Research & Design projects, bringing your content skills and experience to solving fascinating design challenges.

We will expect the successful candidate to have knowledge and skills in experience designing that is evidence-based – bringing together user research and insight with UX expertise, to create services that help people complete their journeys and goals.

You will be expected to define and map end-to-end user and customer journeys, develop prototypes from rough concepts to hi-fidelity interactive experiences.

Therefore, you will have an outstanding portfolio, showing work across a variety of platforms and media, demonstrating high fidelity UI designs, wireframes, user flows and personas, or layout, colour, branding and typographic-led designs.

We also expect the successful candidate to demonstrate their experience in designing services for users that struggle online, perhaps through disability, lack of digital confidence, age or neurodiversity and understand what is needed to build an inclusive service.

In this role, you will be expected to lead, mentor, and support the development of more junior Transform design staff. You will also be able to pitch your work and sell it to all sorts of people both internal and external.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Strong experiences in UX and/or Interaction Design
Experience with prototyping tools such as Figma, InVision, Sketch etc (as well as paper)
Conceptual sketching
Information design - turning data / information into engaging visuals
Experience of working with UX Researchers, UX Designers and developers to build awesome products or services following user centred design
Ability to create UI assets that are reusable components
Experience working to Agile methodology
Experience creating common, shareable design patterns
Strong prototyping skills using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Nunjucks to build rich interactive prototypes in the GDS prototyping toolkit (not production code)
Experience in using Heroku and GitHub
Experience working with development teams to implement and refine designs
Growing our capabilities in the UX area to improve our methodology and quality

Desirable Skills/Experiences:

Experience managing/mentoring junior UX Designers
Experience being an active contributor in UCD communities of practice
Experience of delivering Discovery, Alpha, Beta, Live
Experience working in other sectors, e.g., FS, retail, utilities
Experience in design sprints and rapid prototyping
Experience in live service continuous improvement
Expertise in modelling and visualising user journeys
Visual / graphic design

Our culture and benefits

Our culture is built on:

Being one team; looking out for each other as a team
The world never stops changing and we’ll never stop learning
Infinity & Beyond; we’re crazy ambitious, not afraid to fail along the way (it’s just falling with style)
Integrity is everything; we’re honest with each other and with our clients
Diversity is our superpower; everyone’s story is different, and we celebrate differences
We’re all in; we take on tough, complex challenges with lots of moving parts and we’re committed to the work, our clients and each other

Our benefits include:

Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday
Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions
Private healthcare
Life assurance
Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave
Cycle to work & electric car schemes
Gym & retail discounts
Regular social events/activities
A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package

At Transform we believe in a culture of inclusivity, we celebrate difference and believe that diversity makes our business more relevant, our work more meaningful and our people more empowered. We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we actively seek applications from all ethnicities, orientations, beliefs, gender identities + those with neurodiverse traits and disabilities. We want you to have the best opportunity to show us who you are and what you can do. Please do let us know if you need any adjustments now or at any point in the recruitment process.

If this sounds like you, please get in touch to discuss in more detail.

About Transform

Transform is a Technology and Data consultancy that defines, designs, builds and operates products and services for our customers.

We work with our clients to optimise, accelerate and transform their digital, data and technology programmes, from augmenting teams to defining and delivering new services and operating models. We deliver outcomes not outputs, building capability in client organisations.

In the public sector, we wrote the DirectGov review for Martha Lane-Fox in 2011, a report that helped start the revolution towards User Centred and Agile methods for delivering services. Since then, we have designed and built over 50 public sector services, helping our clients pass over 90 Government Digital Service assessments.

In the private sector we operate in multiple sectors with a strong focus on retail, financial services and automotive. We help our clients define their digital and data strategies, and then design, build and operate them in cost-effective and user-centric ways.

We are part of the Next 15 group, a multi-national organisation spanning over 25 brands. We combine the financial robustness and breadth of services of a large organisation, with the nimbleness and innovation of a smaller brand.

Find out more at: www.transformUK.com