UI Design Lead

My client is looking for a UI Design Lead with lots of emotional intelligence and good co-creation experience working with developers, content writers, analysts, product managers and other designers - to find the best product design UI solutions. You will have a well-rounded understanding of the design process - always thinking broadly, producing work that inspires, and on-brand.
You will need experience in line-management of a second designer or a small team of 2 or 3 designers and/or you can clearly demonstrate you have the right attitude and other relevant experience to do this.

You`re responsible for ...
• Inspired UI design direction
• Ensuring the UI team have a collective understanding of initiatives across all product streams
• Ensuring the UI team work in a fully communicative and coherent manner inside and outside of their respective product stream
• Coordinating and contributing to our design standards and pattern library for new products and propositions, as part of a design collective
• Working to and informing brand guidelines, inputting to these and iterating when needed
• Working closely with your team and other stakeholders to design product UI and interactions from concept through to implementation and iteration
• Following an insight driven and data informed, user-centred approach to design
• Using whatever techniques/materials are needed to support your design and test processes, for example: competitor analysis, sketches and scribbles, prototypes, atomic design etc.
• Supporting your stream`s objectives and wider business objectives to improve key metrics that ultimately increase revenue and profit
• Participating in ongoing conversations with other work streams across the business

Essential skills
• Practical, commercial experience in UCD-driven UI design
• Exposure to and a basic understanding of various research methods
• Solid knowledge and understanding of mobile, iOS, Android and responsive web platforms
• Good commercial experience at high volumes with a focus on conversion, clientside is a bonus
• Requirement analysis
• Stakeholder management
• Experience working in an Agile and/or Lean UX process
• Expertise in the software you use E.g. Sketch, Zeplin, Invision
• An understanding of web/design technologies and methods e.g. javascript, accessibility
• Experience incorporating SEO requirements into design
• Inspired ability to organise and manage designers and design processes