Lead UX Designer - Stealth Venture

Job Description

Alongside our corporate partner, BCG Digital Ventures is launching a stealth start-up focused on developing technology to remove the burden of paperwork and enable better productivity for fieldworkers and managers in utilities. We are bringing together a cross-disciplinary team of product designers, engineers, business strategists, user-centred designers and technical sales specialists to build ground-breaking tech within the AI and Machine Learning space to address a growing market need. The business is due to launch in early 2020, and will be based in London, UK with some international travel.

We are seeking a Lead UX Designer who is hands on and can drive the company and product forward. You have a passion for your craft and interacting with users and stakeholders alike. You’re capable of providing solid rationale with all decisions and solutions that is grounded in insight. Communicating visually and verbally is second nature to you and rationalising decisions is part of your everyday routine. You understand the importance of a well-designed, user-centred and consistent product but can work in an environment where business decisions and usability influence the solutions.

What you will do

• Create compelling experiences for both responsive web and native apps
• Advocating for the end user and educate the wider team on the importance of user centred design
• Conduct user research and provide well informed recommendations in both written and visual format
• Set expectations and estimate time and delivery of UX and UI components and other design deliverables with an agile mind-set
• Oversee and guide future team members
• Liaise with key stakeholders and communicate the design thinking and rationale
• Apply appropriate UX design patterns and components to the right product

Desired background

• Sustained experience in designing UX for both desktop and mobile application
• Outstanding portfolio of prior work that demonstrates strong user-centred research capabilities across a range of different projects
• Great understanding and skillset with modern design and prototyping software (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Principle or similar
• Expert understanding of information architecture, workflows, concept development and interaction design
• Hands-on experience preparing and conducting user research (qualitative and quantitive)
• Experience in translating user research and usability test findings into iterative product solutions
• A strong track-record of designing and executing user research methodologies incorporating both quantitative and qualitative approaches
• Experience working in agile and lean environments