UX Designer

Brandwatch a Cision product empowers over 5000 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social.

Combining pioneering AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.

Operating and serving clients the world over Brandwatch has 17 offices across the globe and more than 1000 employees worldwide.

We’re looking for someone with flair passion and a drive to innovate to join us on our mission to build amazing website experiences.

Our websites attract millions of visitors every year. They are often the first touchpoint with which our users interact with our Brand and ultimately how we win their business. They remain one of our most valuable sources for lead generation.

If you are a talented Mid-weight UX designer who wants to work in a highly collaborative Web team where your ideas really count and can tangibly make a difference then this could be the perfect role for you.

About the team you’ll be joining:

Reporting to the Lead Website Designer and Senior UX Designer you’ll be part of a growing cross functional team consisting of designers developers and marketers.

We’re looking for someone who is prepared to be a brand champion. Someone who is keen to embrace and evolve our internationally renowned tech brand and help create not only your best work but our best work.

A good fit for our team is a designer who is reliable comfortable collaborating within the team and the wider business clear in their communication and able to participate in open and constructive critique. Someone who can meticulously craft digital experiences balancing aesthetics and functionality to ensure seamless engaging and delightful interactions for all users of our websites.

We value people with curious minds who have the appetite and energy to solve interesting design problems and who are motivated by the possibility of making a positive difference to the lives of others.

What you'll do:

• Ensuring our brand is consistently represented across all of our customer and prospect website touchpoints on the website.

• Autonomously planning and building intuitive engaging responsive and accessible website solutions in response to briefs that prioritise users’ needs loading speeds scalability and conversation opportunities.

• Conducting user research (generative and evaluative) and translating findings into robust user journeys wireframes prototypes and user delight.

• Optimising the information architecture of our sites so that our users can achieve their tasks and goals with the greatest precision and speed.

• Assisting with systemising Website UX & UI in parallel to the Product and Marketing Design team’s efforts to create a comprehensive pattern library that delivers efficiency consistency and delight to all design touchpoints across the organisation.

• Driving and maintaining great UX design within a cross-functional website team to ensure that our pages and sites are fundamentally user-focused and accessible to all.

• Liaising with peers to source and/or create website assets such as product shots diagrams and motion graphics

• Liaising with Content to find the best fit for website copy

• Staying updated with industry trends and best practices in UX/UI design.

What you have:

• Have at least 3 years commercial experience working as a UX designer

• Have a bachelor's degree in a field such as user experience design graphic design interaction design or a related field

• Present a portfolio/examples of work during your interview that demonstrates excellence in your craft

• Have proficiency in the design software we use as a team (Figma / Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator)

• Be able to distil and translate complex requirements into crisp modern accessible and inviting wireframes web page designs and experiences

• Document and communicate your work efficiently and effectively to a variety of stakeholders

• Have a deep knowledge of core visual design principles and how to apply them

• Have a critical eye for details

• Have a working knowledge of Design systems and ways of systemising scaling and documenting design solutions across large organisations

• Have a thorough understanding of UI web patterns and web design principles

• Possess strong interpersonal and collaborative skills to work with cross-functional teams.

• Have excellent communication and problem-solving abilities

• Have experience designing for mobile/responsive contexts

• Have a good working knowledge of accessibility requirements and how to solve for them

• Be familiar with Wordpress.

You might:

• Have experience with AEM CSS and HTML

• Have a passion for data visualisation

• Have experience in motion design

• Have Coding Experience

What we offer:

• Holiday - 25 days holiday and 4 Wellness days per year to encourage a healthy work-life balance!

• Possibility to work fully remote

• Health cash plan employer paid at level 3. (Option to upgrade plan to level 45 or 6 + add family members at employee’s expense); Group life assurance - employer paid

• Sports benefit - gym/sport membership contribution - 50% or up to 25 GBP per month employer contribution

• Cycle to work; Employee discounts platform - through Reward Gateway

• Dental insurance - preference premiums at employee’s cost + option to add family members

• Employee assistance plan (EAP) & Full Calm subscription

• Maternity/parental leave policy & Sabbatical leave policy

If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!

At Cision we're revolutionizing the way brands connect with their audiences. We provide PR marketing and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today's data-driven world enabling them to see and be seen understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most. Our deep expertise exclusive data partnerships and award-winning products including CisionOne Brandwatch and PR Newswire empower over 75000 companies and organizations including 84% of the Fortune 500 to achieve their goals.

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