UX Product Manager / UX Designer
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Area | Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Sector | IT |
| Start Date | |
| Job Ref | PH9721 |
- Description
Salary: £70,000 DOE + ergonomic workspaces with sit/stand desks, Linux desktops with dual monitors, 25 days holiday + public holidays, Hack days, lunch & learns, structured career progression, supported learning and regular 1:1's, snacks, drinks, fruit and breakfasts. Ping pong, games & socials, equity and 4 x salary life assurance, open and transparent culture with regular sessions with executive team
Why this company?
Going from strength to strength – expanding the organisation from 40 to 70 employees - confident company without arrogance – work with integrity – customer obsesses – innovative – demand quality and most of all CARE ABOUT THEIR PEOPLE!
A User Experience (UX) Designer / Product Manager is required to take ownership of the entire User Experience within our client’s class leading Data Integration products. This role will represent all aspects of an end-user's interaction with our client’s products and services, championing user-centric design goals and consistency of approach in all product development endeavours.
Key skills
UX Design, Breed Wireframe Tools, Full Stack designer, UI Frameworks, Agile Development environment
Functional or Technical Knowledge and Skills Required
· Understands the fundamentals of UX design as a discipline
· Experience in the design of sophisticated browser based productivity tools used by technical power users as well as less technical end users
· Experience producing detailed designs for development teams to implement using best of breed Wireframe tools
· Experience as a Full-stack designer: can assist with all dimensions of design – research, usability evaluation, information architecture, wireframes, visual, CSS and HTML
· Understanding to modern browser UI frameworks
· Has worked in an Agile development environment with fast paced release cycles
Key Areas of Responsibility
User Experience Guidelines and Criteria
· Help define the overall strategy for UI/UX
· Define and communicate the general acceptance criteria for any technical work that interacts with a customer touch-point
· Provide best-endeavours consistency between the various different services our customers interact with, including (but not limited to): product launch experience via AWS, GCP and Azure marketplaces, the product itself, the support site, the documentation site
User Journey Definitions
· Define and manage the collaborative process of developing user-journeys as part of an iterative agile development process
· For key customer use-cases, define the ideal workflow for that use-case, compare it to the current workflow and raise any required improvements
· For any Engineering development task that is customer-facing (most of them), provide advice on the workflow, screen layouts and flow, mockups etc
User Interface Design Guidelines and Criteria
· Define and communicate the general acceptance criteria for all user-interface work
· Spot inconsistency in the current product and raise tickets to make them consistent
Prioritise competing development tasks
· Improved UX workflows can be prioritised according to their value (based on ARR Levers, Utility and feature usage)
· Bug Fixes can be prioritised according to their Severity and Impact
· Feed into Release Planning sessions and ongoing review sessions to give visibility to the wider business of the current state of the UX
· Work with the R&D Manager to provide competitor analysis as it pertains to UX
Product Marketing Liaison
· The UX Product Manager contributes to the Product Marketing team, communicating the product roadmap vision for UX and providing content for areas such as Product Documentation
· To collaborate with Product Marketing to understand and document the personas, particularly end-user personas, encountered in our ecosystem in order to help Product Marketing best promote our offerings with regard to user experience
· To understand and document the user-experience experienced in various competitor tools and how they overlap with the company
Job Title: UX Product Manager / UX Designer
Location: Altrincham, Manchester – Tram, Bus and Train services as close to station
Salary: £70,000 DOE + ergonomic workspaces with sit/stand desks, Linux desktops with dual monitors, 25 days holiday + public holidays, Hack days, lunch & learns, structured career progression, supported learning and regular 1:1's, snacks, drinks, fruit and breakfasts. Ping pong, games & socials, equity and 4 x salary life assurance, open and transparent culture with regular sessions with executive team
Hours of work: Flexitime is offered BUT core hours are 10.00am to 3.00pm, Monday to Friday - 7.5 hours per day
Job Type: Permanent
Job Reference: PH9721
Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this role.
