UX/UI Designer - B&CE

Are you an advocate for customer journey? Do you have a variety of design experience and are looking for a new exciting opportunity? Here at B&CE we are looking for a UX/UI Designer to help deliver excellence across the entire design process. If this sounds of interest, please do read on.

In a Word

Deliver excellence across the entire design process, from understanding current user interactions and frustrations, developing solutions and then turning them into beautiful, intuitive and functional user interfaces.

Thriving on variety, this role will see working on a variety of design challenges, including enhancing an existing feature or designing a killer new feature – there will always be something to sink your teeth into.

An advocate for customer journey, the UX-UI Designer works with colleagues to demonstrate the value of good design to meet customer needs and contribute to the growth and development of the organisation.

Practically Speaking

Reporting to the UX Manager, you’ll be responsible for;

Discovery:

• Attend workshops and gather data that will help you identify and understand the problem that needs solving.

Ideation:

• Create and showcase concepts that challenge your colleagues, giving you the opportunity to influence and educate.
• Design and develop journey maps and IA.
• Produce lo-fi wireframes to showcase the proposed journey and interaction design.

Design:

• Craft user interfaces. Balance pixel perfect attention to detail with business requirements. You will build powerful and engaging experiences, putting user centred design at the heart of everything you produce.
• You will be able to rapidly prototype solutions both lo-fi and hi-fi. You will also contribution to the maintenance of our visual asset library.

Validation:

• Iterate designs based on user testing feedback or other MI.
• Optimise our online experience by making continuous, incremental improvements, keeping the website aligned with emerging UI/UX trends and standards.

​Right for this role

You’ll enjoy working within a solutions-driven, people-focused organisation.

You’ll have a can-do attitude and work well both independently and as part of a team and be aligned with our
values of Creating Simplicity, Keeping Promises and Showing Compassion;

• Educated to A level or equivalent
• Deep understanding of UI/UX design theory, and principles of user-centred interaction design for the web.
• Excellent skills with design and prototyping software (e.g. Adobe CS, Axure, Invision, Balsamic etc).
• Able to maximise the usability and efficiency of user interfaces.
• Proven ability to refine designs based on feedback.
• Demonstrable experience of responsive design and delivering good UX across different devices.
• Capable of managing multiple projects at the same time.
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS including creating responsive designs.
• Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues
• Portfolio demonstrating expert use of typography, colour, imagery, grid systems, user flows, interaction design.
• Sympathetic to brand, and able to follow brand guidelines.

B&CE is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at B&CE) equally.

We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process

The Perks

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. That’s why we offer an award-winning pension – it’s what we’re good at – plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer… even the odd massage. And if they’re feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant or grab some fruit – we get a big delivery every week. Discover more of B&CE’s employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career