UX/UI Designer

Conteúdo do emprego

We are Places for People Group, we build homes and manage communities where everyone is welcome and everyone can thrive, we are placemakers.

We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with technical people, collaborative people and detail- orientated people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.

More About Your Role

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced UX/UI Designer to join Places for People within our Engineering team in the Technology function, working with colleagues across the Group.

Working as part of a project team you will help foster a shared understanding of the problem, using the Design Thinking methodology. You will use a range of User Research techniques to deep dive into the problem and use your findings to inform design decisions. You will also take accessibility into account at all stages, involving the end-user from the start and throughout the process.

You will be responsible for understanding our users’ needs and challenges and will bring fulfilment and value to our customers lives making sure these meet the product vision and business goals.

Please note that this is a UK based remote working , fixed term contract position until 17th August 2023. Some travel to the Preston office will be required as and when appropriate for meetings and to aid collaboration.

For more information, please download our job profile available on our website.

More About You

The successful individual will have sound experience of the product development process and design thinking methodology and will work as part of a cross-functional project team in a fast-paced, agile environment. With experience working as a UX/UI Designer you will understand all stages of the design process: from user research, the creation of customer journeys, IA and user flows to ideation, wireframing, prototyping, design and user testing.

You will have a keen eye for detail and obsessive appreciation of the Laws of UX when building user interfaces. Ideally you will have experience with coding and be able to troubleshoot with CSS and HTML. Experience of using Umbraco would be useful, although we full training will be provided.

The Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you job security and all the challenge you could wish for. Here people can flourish, thrive, better themselves and work in fantastic communities with inspirational colleagues and customers.

Benefits

We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package to help colleagues save money or make their lives a little bit easier which can include

• Excellent holiday package and rewards
• Pension with matched contributions
• Training
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
  

What’s next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.