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UI Designer - Albany Beck

Are you a UI Designer? Are you looking for your next exciting career move? Would you like to work for an exciting, growing Management Consultancy, where you will be given the time, training and tools to better your career? Well, look no further as the perfect opportunity is right in front of you!

Albany Beck are hiring for a Senior UI Designer to work onsite with one of our Tier 1 Investment Banking clients, based in London. The ideal profile will have strong UX Design experience, as well as strong research and UI experience.

Key Must-Haves: Strong UI experience, Web Apps experience, Wireframing experience, Prototyping experience

Key Responsibilities:

  • Helping facilitate user research and testing sessions and farther feedback
  • Creating personas through user research
  • Creating documentation and information design concepts
  • Collaborating with other UX designers and developers to create intuitive, user-friendly software
  • Developing wireframes and task flows based on stakeholder requirements
  • Understanding product specifications and user requirements
  • Finding creative ways to solve UX problems
  • Developing wireframes and prototypes
  • Communicating design and prototypes to developers and stakeholders
  • Keeping abreast of competitor and industry trends and standards

 

Skills & Qualifications:

  • Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Axure - hand sketching skills will be an advantage
  • Knowledge of HTML/CSS; Angular JS, JavaScript is a plus
  • Excellent design, visual communication and conceptual thinking skills
  • Experience working with design guidelines
  • Confidence at presenting your work and ability to manage own project timings
  • Proactive, collaborative and work well under pressure to meet challenging deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Be able to present a strong portfolio of design projects
  • Experience working in an agile team, practicing Scrum, Kanban or XP

 

 

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