Senior User Interface Designer - Ordnance Survey : Job Details

Our busy user experience and digital design team are looking for people to support their mission - to reach the hearts, minds and spirits of our customers and help them meet their goals.

You will lead a growing UI design function within the UX & Digital Design team where we help Government and Business customers get the most out of our geospatial data.

This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated and creative individual to join a friendly team of like-minded people, product owners, digital designers, and the content team to deliver a diverse range of OS products across government and business.

About the role

We're seeking an UI designer who has experience creating and managing digital design systems, is comfortable designing branded digital experiences from web sites, to web apps, to SAS dashboards. You will guide the UI Design function though the challenge of designing accessible, cross-platform customer-focused digital products in a technically-minded organisation.

As a Senior UI Designer, you will be responsible for the consistency and quality of all User Interface design across our websites, customer-facing data ordering and fulfilment systems, and web-based mapping tools built for our Government and Business customers. You will also oversee the digital UI design system and liaise with the Brand design team to ensure brand consistency across the interfaces we build for ourselves and our customers.

The role will also require you to rapidly iterate designs based on feedback to produce production ready finished products into product development teams so you will be experienced in managing design processes end to end within an Agile / Sprint development process.

We are a blended UX/UI team. Each of us has different specialisms which cover the whole UX and Product design process from research, conception, testing, interaction design, and delivery to development teams. Show us your experience working with user experience researchers and UX techniques.

You'll be joining a team that combines UX and UI design disciplines into a single team to offer a unified design offering to the organisation. You will be influential to new working practices alongside our Senior UX Designer and UX Practice Lead.

The role balances strong customer understanding and design skills and hands on project involvement, stakeholder management and collaboration.

Main Responsibilities of a Senior UI Designer

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading other UI designers in creating and curating Ordnance Survey's digital design system

• Creating user-centred designs through understanding business requirements, and user feedback

• Delivering inclusive and accessible services and championing this approach across the business

• Creating and collaborating with UX designers on user flows, wireframes, prototypes and mock-ups

• Own digital style guides, design systems, design patterns and customer-focused user interfaces

• Designing UI patterns in collaboration with UX researchers and designers such as input controls, navigational components and informational components that are responsive and accessible

• Identifying and troubleshooting User Experience problems with the team

• Collaborating effectively with product, engineering, and management teams in an Agile development environment

• Incorporating insight from customer feedback, usage metrics, and usability findings into design to enhance user experience

Key Requirements

• You will be able to demonstrate accessible and adaptive website and web application design

• You have prior experience creating and owning design systems

• You have experience guiding and mentoring more junior designers in how to most-effectively deliver user interfaces to technical teams

• You'll be familiar with delivering User Interface designs to engineering teams in an agile environment.

• You are proficient in Figma (our main UI design software of choice) or similar.

• A basic technical understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is a plus (but you will not be asked to do any front-end development as part of your role)

• You pay strong attention to detail

• You have excellent communication skills and can clearly articulate your ideas, designs, and suggestions

• You are a strong team player who can collaborate effectively with different stakeholders

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That's why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees by clicking here. We'll give you:

• Salary: £46,861 - £55,130 (depending on experience)

• Performance related bonus

• A competitive pension scheme

• 37 hour working week (with flexible working options)

• 25 days annual leave - (rising by 1 day each year to a maximum of 30) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas

• Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

Location

OSHQ is based in Southampton, Hampshire but we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic office or from home. We want to continue to be an inclusive employer and recognise that one size doesn't necessarily fit all.

Closing date Sunday 7th April 2024

Security

OS conducts DBS background checks for all joiners and some of our roles require additional security clearance, including to SC or DV level in some cases. We will tell candidates at the appropriate time during the recruitment process if additional clearance will be required for this role.

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together - in a supportive and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We think combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way. We are looking for dedicated and experienced individuals from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background, or religion.

We're individually passionate and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.

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