Creative Designer – UI / UX – Remote – £45-£50K

Excellent opportunity for a talented Creative UX / UI Designer with a passion for user-centric design looking to join a growing, in-demand digital agency with a repetition for delivering clean, beautiful web and mobile apps.
Role Info:
Creative Designer – UI / UX
Reading, Berkshire / Part Remote
Part Commutable from Oxford, Surrey, West London, Swindon (Own transport needed)
£45,000 – £50,000
Plus Benefits & Perks
The Creative Designer – UI / UX Role:
Working closely with other designers, developers and stakeholders, you will be responsible for creating responsive on-brand user interfaces through research, data, a strong process and a good understanding of design principles and feedback.
The role can be mixed between the office in Reading and remote work (we all use Slack here). Due to the amount of client facing potential with this role, we would expect the successful candidate to live ideally no more than 1hr away from Reading.
Creative Designer – UI / UX Essential Skills:
+ 3+ years’ experience as a UI / UX designer in a previous agency
+ Strong ability to report on research to develop user centric design briefs
+ A high quality portfolio to demonstrate your process and design skills
+ Experience in UX research and user-testing
+ Enjoys facilitating UX workshops and getting stakeholder buy-in
+ Undertake competitor UX research, heuristic evaluations on internal and competitor UX, expert UX reviews and audits
+ Experience in quickly generating wireframes, physical & digital prototypes
+ Aptitude for mobile-first approach and design with performance in mind
+ Articulate design decisions to peers, developers and product managers
+ Recognises KPIs and owns the design process until success is achieved
+ Collaborate with other designers in the team
+ Present designs and key deliverables to peers and other stakeholders
+ Experience with analytics packages such as Google Analytics and Hotjar
+ Confident using modern design applications prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite or similar tools
Nice to have:
+ Experience with content management platforms such as WordPress
+ Knowledge of Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) and A/B Testing
+ Understanding of conversion funnels and web form best practice
Benefits:
We promote an open, positive working environment, with a professional yet easy-going atmosphere.
As a growing agency you will have a real opportunity to help shape our future, and the role is only limited by your imagination and business acumen.
+ A salary ranging from £45k to £50k depending on experience
+ 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
+ Flexible working hours with the ability to work from home and the office in Reading
+ Equity options may also be possible for major contributions
+ Pension plan, including company contributions
+ Regular training and development opportunities
+ Regular social activities based around significant company achievements.
+ Coffee machine, tea, mineral water and fresh fruit
+ Table Football, Xbox, VR and chill out areas to unwind
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