Lead UX Designer

Our client is presently seeking a talented UX Function Lead with a talent for building strong cross-functional partnerships with product owners, engineers, architects and other key business stakeholders.

The Position:

The successful candidate will be deeply involved at every stage of the design process, from research and discovery through to execution and iteration.  Creating high-quality user flows, wireframes, and prototypes – while validating design decisions with real users early and often – you will manage a small team of great designers and report to the Head of UX/UI. Key responsibilities will include:

• Defining, designing and testing experiences that will allow our client to push past the competition
• Transferring ideas to a diverse audience, from senior management to product owners, then constructively integrating feedback
• Managing the team’s research, design, and analysis activities to create high-quality solutions that provide industry-leading experiences to users
• Working closely with the Project Manager and Product Owners to allocate resources and define timelines for delivering work to Product teams
• Evangelising the critical role that research plays in building successful products and experiences
• Identifying gaps in the end-to-end experience and collaboratively working with product owners, engineers and stakeholders to address these gaps

The Candidate:

Applicants will be expected to demonstrate:

• A minimum of five years’ industry experience in designing digital products
• A portfolio of work demonstrating UX skills, with meaningful and measurable outcomes
• Expertise at leveraging quantitative and/or qualitative data to inspire design decisions and solutions
• Sports betting knowledge is a massive plus
• Highly skilled with design tools such as Figma and Miro
• Experience with Usertesting.com
• The ability to plan, moderate, and execute a variety of goal-oriented workshops with the team, product owners and business stakeholders
• Experience of working with globally distributed teams
• Expert knowledge of the different user research methods and when to use them

The Company:

Created from recent acquisitions of several innovative gaming brands, our client’s omni-channel ecosystem of products reaches right across the sports betting, iGaming, free-to-play, and daily fantasy spectrum.