Senior Experience Designer
Job Summary
Agency :
InviqaJob Description :
Drive the best customer and business outcomes through purposeful and inclusive digital products.Inviqa part of the Havas Group is a dedicated team of 150 consultants designers developers (and everything in between!) based in Europe.
Together with our clients we shape the digital products teams processes and software systems they need to meet their customers needs and accelerate their business growth.
We want a world thats crafted by diverse people for diverse people and ensures great experiences for everyone.
Our teams work with the likes of Tesco Arsenal FC Aston Martin and more. And our work is recognised at the The Webby Awards UXUK Awards and The Drum DADI Awards.
Were looking for a Senior Experience Designer to join our multidisciplinary Experience Design (XD) team at Inviqa. The role is a combination of Research and traditional UX / UI work that could also be described as a Senior Product Designer role.
Youll be part of a small team of 12 Experience Designers that share a passion for crafting compelling evidence-based and beautiful customer experiences.
You will be comfortable designing and optimising end-to-end experiences across
complex digital product engagements. You will drive discovery research design
direction experimentation and cross-functional collaboration to create impactful digital experiences.
This role suits an experienced practitioner who blends strong research credentials UX / UI craft strategic thinking confident presentation and facilitation skills and the ability to guide product teams toward evidence-based design decisions. Youll mentor junior designers lead cocreation with clients and ensure that every design move aligns with customer needs and business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
User Research & Discovery
Lead discovery activities including qualitative and quantitative research usability
testing and stakeholder interviews and workshops
Synthesise qual and quant data into insights and actionable problem statements
opportunity areas customer journeys and product hypotheses
Guide external stakeholders and internal teams in the prioritisation of identified
customer needs that drive strategic outcomes
Translate research into conceptual models and north star visions that
demonstrate clear experience improvements and motivate stakeholders to
move into future phases
Synthesise research insights into compelling easy to understand design
artefacts such as experience maps and personas
UX & UI Design
Comfortable leading the audit of existing experiences and the concepting of
solutions or new experiences based on research strategy and data
Create clear wireframes user flows and low to mid fidelity prototypes to bring an
idea to life
Ensure quality consistency and accessibility are prioritised during the highfidelity
design phase of new experiences and the optimisation of existing ones
Create high-fidelity test-ready prototypes
Set up and maintain design systems and component libraries
Present the project and all design decisions to internal and client-side
stakeholders at key milestones of projects
Management & Mentoring
Direct line management of more junior members of the Experience Design team
Lead by example and offer guidance on approach to other team members
Collaboration
Create clear design documentation and assets for in-house and external
development teams
Work with cross-functional teams (engineering strategy design) in agile delivery
environments
Continuous Learning
Stay informed and communicate within the team about design trends UX
methodologies accessibility standards and product thinking
Engage in training courses and internal knowledge sharing through Inviqas
culture of collaboration and learning
Your skills experience and approach:
You will have 5 years experience in UX service design product design or equivalent. and have experience working in digital agencies or consultancy environments.
You will be aligned to Inviqas values - Purpose Human Open Learning and Together.
This means that you are goal driven and deliver on your commitments you empathise with clients and colleagues you share knowledge and give honest feedback you have a thirst for learning and you collaborate as a default.
We are looking for enthusiastic people that exhibit the following skills:
Technical & Craft Skills
Significant experience delivering end-to-end research and design across
complex digital products or services.
Strong command of UX methodologies human-centred design service design
and design thinking.
High proficiency with Figma
Experience designing to digital accessibility requirements (WCAG standards)
AI Literacy in Design & Research
Be familiar with the current landscape of AI-powered tools across the design and
research workflow (e.g. generative design assistants automated prototyping
qualitative data synthesis and analysis)
Understand where AI tools create genuine efficiency gains and where they
introduce unreliable or misleading outputs
Able to articulate AI capabilities and limitations clearly to non-technical
stakeholders and advocate for responsible project integration
Soft Skills
Proactive a strong curiosity and a hunger to learn and develop your skills
Strong leadership skills
Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
Approachable with good communication and presentation skills
Organised with the ability to manage small tasks within larger project streams
Whats in it for you:
The opportunity to do your best work the freedom to experiment and to fail and
the support to improve
Participate in impactful work for some amazing world-famous brands
Personal development is a big thing here at Inviqa youll be given lots of time for
training and conferences and we will work to support you to build your skills
You get to work as part of a brilliant team we share and collaborate on a daily
basis and we make a real effort to make sure you have a good work life balance
Some flexibility around your working hours and patterns
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Contract Type :
PermanentHere at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age sex race ethnicity disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individuals ability to perform their job.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Havas is one of the world’s largest global communications groups and its mission is to make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people.