Lead UX & Design Consultant
Salary: £negotiable
Reporting to: Operations Director
Location: Leeds
Duration: Permanent (will consider a short term contractor)
Objective
To develop, embed and grow the CDS UX & Design offering ensuring that techniques are current, meet client requirements and are communicated and understood across the agency
UX Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the UX & design team, supporting their personal development within the agency
- Ensure that the UX & Design team meets regularly to share ideas
- Create a roadmap for the development of the team
- Develop a methodology and process for gathering success metrics and data across all projects and drive continuous improvement
- Lead recruitment and resource planning
- Provide delivery estimates for new/existing clients
- Contribute to bid/tender documentation
- Work closely with the frontend team to help define standards
Creative Responsibilities
· Lead creative sessions for projects
· Manage multiple projects from concept through completion
· Lead the development of creative programs and design concepts
· Provide quality control over concepts and projects
· Deliver a creative product of the highest standard that generates measurable business return for clients
· Inspire a culture of creative thinking and innovation
· Build strong relationships with clients, inspiring and exciting them about our creative work and the delivery on their brand promise
· Attend client briefings, client presentations and pitches
· Develop effective quality assurance and sign off mechanisms, and have the final sign off for all work leaving the agency
· Stay up to date with current trends and utilise this knowledge to expand creative thinking
Technical Skills
- Expert knowledge UX and Design techniques
- Utilise latest tools, research and user testing techniques
- Understanding/implementation of WAI web accessibility guidelines
- Expert in mobile, responsive and adaptive user interface UX & design
- Solid understanding of SEO and analytics and their impact on good UX and Design