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**Experience Design Vice President** | LONDON, UK Wikesponsible for shaping user experience across 300k+ employees, this VP drives strategic design and research initiatives, balancing business needs and user insights. Key duties include: - Developing and executing design/research strategies for complex projects. - Designing end-to-end user journeys (wireframes to prototypes) and leading multiple product experiences. - Conducting user research and usability testing to validate solutions. - Collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to influence decisions. - Establishing visual design quality and consistency through contemporary UI patterns. - Incorporating inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, fostering a culture of diversity. Requires 5+ years in user experience design, proven ability to create visual representations, and a strong portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity work and measurable impact. Fluency in AI-enabled design and advanced technical literacy are preferred.
- Compensation
- Not specified GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
Location: LONDON, United Kingdom
Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas
Design through wireframes, visuals, prototypes, and product features at different levels of fidelity, including diagram service flows and interactions for key touchpoints. You lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain, multiple product experiences, delivering high-fidelity solutions with exceptional visual and interaction design craft
Drive and participate in upfront user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to see how your solutions work for users, with the support from our Experience Research team
Deliver work that is not only user-friendly, but which also produces results - measuring your work's value by identifying success criteria and performing user validation throughout the design process
Role-model the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion
Collaborate and partner closely with Product, Engineering and Business Stakeholders to shape solutions earlynot just execute against defined requirements. You will play a key role in helping realize the vision and defining end-to-end product experience
Establish and elevate visual design quality through a strong point of view on hierarchy, typography, layout, and modern UI patterns
Bring clarity and consistency to complex or legacy experiences by introducing contemporary, consumer-grade design patterns
Use prototyping, storytelling, and strong design rationale to communicate decisions and influence stakeholders, including senior leadership
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience design into the product development processes and ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
Drive the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Analyze market trends, gather feedback from user research, and learn from data insights to inform design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels, including 3rd party products
5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design or similar roles
Demonstrated ability to create visual representations of user journeys, such as storyboarding, wireframes, and prototypes
Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines, with the ability to incorporate diverse perspectives and abilities into design solutions
Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, to drive customer-centric decision-making
Experience developing design proposals and solutions that communicate the value of the initiative from a customer and business lens.
Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped work and measurable impact on product outcomes (not just concepts)
Portfolio includes high-fidelity design work that reflects a sophisticated, modern aesthetic and a strong, opinionated point of view on visual and interaction design; work demonstrates the ability to elevate and modernize complex or legacy experiences, introducing contemporary patterns and raising the overall quality bar
Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end user journeys (not just individual screens)
Ability to clearly articulate design decisions, tradeoffs, and constraints, including exploration of multiple design approaches
Proven ability to distill and elevate complex challenges to stakeholders, leaders, and peers alike
Fluency / curiosity when it comes to working in AI-enabled design
Experience of designing both in-house products as well as embedding 3rd party products
Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
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Experience Design Vice President
Compensation
Not specified GBP
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
**Experience Design Vice President** | LONDON, UK Wikesponsible for shaping user experience across 300k+ employees, this VP drives strategic design and research initiatives, balancing business needs and user insights. Key duties include: - Developing and executing design/research strategies for complex projects. - Designing end-to-end user journeys (wireframes to prototypes) and leading multiple product experiences. - Conducting user research and usability testing to validate solutions. - Collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to influence decisions. - Establishing visual design quality and consistency through contemporary UI patterns. - Incorporating inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, fostering a culture of diversity. Requires 5+ years in user experience design, proven ability to create visual representations, and a strong portfolio demonstrating high-fidelity work and measurable impact. Fluency in AI-enabled design and advanced technical literacy are preferred.
Full Job Description
Location: LONDON, United Kingdom
Develop and execute design/research strategies for complex projects and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs across multiple product areas
Design through wireframes, visuals, prototypes, and product features at different levels of fidelity, including diagram service flows and interactions for key touchpoints. You lead end-to-end design initiatives within a specific domain, multiple product experiences, delivering high-fidelity solutions with exceptional visual and interaction design craft
Drive and participate in upfront user research to better understand user needs and behaviors, and usability testing to see how your solutions work for users, with the support from our Experience Research team
Deliver work that is not only user-friendly, but which also produces results - measuring your work's value by identifying success criteria and performing user validation throughout the design process
Role-model the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion
Collaborate and partner closely with Product, Engineering and Business Stakeholders to shape solutions earlynot just execute against defined requirements. You will play a key role in helping realize the vision and defining end-to-end product experience
Establish and elevate visual design quality through a strong point of view on hierarchy, typography, layout, and modern UI patterns
Bring clarity and consistency to complex or legacy experiences by introducing contemporary, consumer-grade design patterns
Use prototyping, storytelling, and strong design rationale to communicate decisions and influence stakeholders, including senior leadership
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate user experience design into the product development processes and ensure seamless and customer-centric solutions
Drive the adoption of inclusive design practices and accessibility guidelines, mentor junior designers and foster a culture of diversity and inclusion.
Analyze market trends, gather feedback from user research, and learn from data insights to inform design decisions and optimize user experiences across various platforms and channels, including 3rd party products
5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in user experience design or similar roles
Demonstrated ability to create visual representations of user journeys, such as storyboarding, wireframes, and prototypes
Demonstrated experience in inclusive design and accessibility guidelines, with the ability to incorporate diverse perspectives and abilities into design solutions
Proven ability to develop experiences that meet or exceed the initial proposal of a product or experience, to drive customer-centric decision-making
Experience developing design proposals and solutions that communicate the value of the initiative from a customer and business lens.
Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped work and measurable impact on product outcomes (not just concepts)
Portfolio includes high-fidelity design work that reflects a sophisticated, modern aesthetic and a strong, opinionated point of view on visual and interaction design; work demonstrates the ability to elevate and modernize complex or legacy experiences, introducing contemporary patterns and raising the overall quality bar
Demonstrated ability to design end-to-end user journeys (not just individual screens)
Ability to clearly articulate design decisions, tradeoffs, and constraints, including exploration of multiple design approaches
Proven ability to distill and elevate complex challenges to stakeholders, leaders, and peers alike
Fluency / curiosity when it comes to working in AI-enabled design
Experience of designing both in-house products as well as embedding 3rd party products
Advanced technical literacy, including an advanced understanding of client-side technologies, APIs, microservices, and the components of the technology stack, as well as their impact on user experience
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