midweight user experience designer

Ordnance Survey are currently looking for a Midweight User Experience Designer to join our team. At OS, we believe work is something you do, not somewhere you go. We embrace a hybrid working model where we believe the choice is with the individual on when they work from our fantastic offices in Southampton or London, or from home. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £31,442 - £36,990 per annum.

Ordnance Survey (OS) provides national mapping services for Great Britain and is a world-leading provider of geospatial solutions. OS location data and expertise has helped governments make smarter decisions, businesses gain valuable data insight, and everyone experience the world outside for over 225 years.

We offer fantastic benefits in return for joining us as our Midweight User Experience Designer:

• Competitive salary plus performance-related bonus
• Competitive pension scheme
• Flexible working options
• 25 days annual leave - (30 days after five years) bank holidays and an extra 3 over Christmas
• Plus, a suite of excellent additional benefits

As ourMidweight User Experience Designer, you will be designing customer-facing interfaces, mapping tools and data-driven applications. This will involve working on design systems to allow Governments and businesses easy access to our data and APIs, building web-mapping interfaces for Governments and emergency services, and to enhance the experience of our own web estate.

With the support of your colleagues, you'll have the opportunity to broaden and widen your process skills.

Your responsibilities as our Midweight User Experience Designer will include:

• Collaborating with a team of UX and UI Designers to support all aspects of the UX design lifecycle from research to implementation. To include the creation of journey flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes which are based around user needs
• Communicatingwith users, developers, technical teams, and product owners to refine product flows and wireframes to the point they are ready for final design by a UI designer. Then see that design through the development process
• Planning and implementing usability testing
• Demonstrating and applying your deep understanding of responsive website and web-app interaction design and accessibility needs
• Collaborating with content designers, UX designers, UI designers and technical teams to ensure final work meets our user needs and is positively supported internally through strong stakeholder management

What we’re looking for in our Midweight User Experience Designer:

We are looking for a self-motivated UX Designer who proactively uses their skills to help stakeholders solve complex problems.

• Experience in user research, usability testing, Customer journey maps, Wireframing and Prototyping
• Experience in delivering solutions to product owners and developers in a Sprint methodology environment
• Passionate about understanding the customer and creating great digital user experiences
• The ability to collaborate with stakeholders and developers on your design proposals is critical
• Highly organised, combining forward planning with meeting tight deadlines to keep a range of stakeholders (and our customers) happy
• Collaborative team-worker with great communication skills
• Experience in using UX tools – day-to-day we mostly use Axure, Sketch, Figma, User Zoom
• Proven commercial experience as a UX Designer – a minimum of 3 years

We’re individually dedicated and collectively powerful, and we give you the space to take your career in whichever direction you want.

We believe diversity and inclusion is about working together – in an encouraging and respectful environment to reach our full potential. We believe combining different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives will help us reach our vision and be trusted and admired across the globe for setting the standards and leading the way.

We are looking for passionate people from a range of backgrounds and welcome applications from any race, age, gender, background or religion.

Closing date: Sunday 5th February 2023

If you would like to be a part of this, click ‘apply’ now to be considered as our Midweight User Experience Designer - we’d love to hear from you!