Senior User Experience Designer

Job title: Senior UX Designer Rate : £45.51 p/h PAYE (ca 82k pa pro rata) Job type: Permanent Position Location: Edinburgh, 2-3 days in their offices Start Date: 09/09/2024 Estimated End Date: 05/30/2025 Aquent is seeking an experienced and passionate Senior UX Designer for a new contract position based in Edinburgh. A multinational cloud-based software company specialising in a series of products designed to drive creative innovation across multimedia. Overall Responsibilities: Drive. Passion and skill to transform ambiguity into clear, detailed designs. Curiosity. Bring a new perspective to the business landscape by crafting delightful experiences for admins, teams, and enterprises. Systems Thinking. Unify patterns between multiple touchpoints and systems to create cohesive end-to-end experiences across surfaces, apps, teams, and technologies. Simplify. Translate complex problems into simple, practical design solutions that are grounded in user research and data. Collaborate. Drive collaboration with multiple project partners, including product managers, engineers, marketing managers and other designers. Visualize. Bring design to life. Articulate the need and proposed solutions through sketches, storyboards, hi-fidelity mockups, prototypes, or animations across all levels of the organization. Requirements Experience using design thinking and service design tools to tackle complex business problems. Experience (and a love of) solving sophisticated design and technology problems using systems thinking. Proven track record of delivering designs that meet user needs and business requirements. Creative and analytical skills to facilitate research, synthesize and communicate insights that inspire design opportunities. Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate designs and strategy persuasively and concisely to all functions and levels, including executives. Strong operational skills with the ability to work independently, manage multiple projects, and drive close collaboration and alignment between design, product development, engineering and business. Strong visual design skills with a keen eye for detail and a desire to achieve pixel-perfect precision in the finished product. To apply for this hybrid Senior UX Designer position in Edinburgh, please contact Aquent today. Due to the high volume of responses, if you have not received a response in 48 hours please take it that you have unfortunately been unsuccessful. Aquent is a leading talent services company, providing marketing and creative talent, managed services, extended workforce benefits, project management, and professional development. Founded in a dorm room in 1986, Aquent now employs 10,000 people each year across eight countries. Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.