Mid-weight UX Designer

Role overview

Mid-weight
Day Rate: £200 to £300 DOE
IR35 Status: OUTSIDE
Contract type: 3 month freelance booking
Location: London, UK - 5 days on site (London Bridge)
Start date: August 2024

As a UX designer you will actively contribute to various key projects for the design team. The role will be responsible for three main areas: insight research to identify potential needs, building business opportunity hypotheses and producing and visualising future user experiences. Together with the director and creative lead, the successful applicant will lead and manage multiple projects per year.

As part of the role, you will:

• Act as UX designer within the London team and alongside the headquarter in Japan
• Support a series of insight research, eg. desktop research, user/expert interviews, field research in many regions/countries, exhibition visits etc, working together with the target audiences and external experts in target countries
• Derive and propose the direction(s) of projects, based on the target customers, understand potential needs and validation of ideas as demonstrated through the research
• Produce and visualise ideas obtained through the project in an intuitive manner and communicate both internally and externally, including presentations, reports, events, etc
• Travel within Europe and internationally as required.
• Be prepared to work five days a week in their London Studio
• Have proven experience in software, such as Rhino, Keyshot, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft/Apple OS

Your mindset:

• Creative thinking with excellent organisational abilities
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Challenger approach, using your own initiative
• Diverse and inclusive mindset
• Inclusion and equality