Senior UX/UI Designer

Job Title: Senior UI/UX Designer
Contract Type: Permanent, (Full Time/ Part Time/ Job Share/Flexible opportunities available)
Location: Remote with adhoc travel to our Bournemouth and Eastleigh office
Salary: £44,000-£55,000 depending on experience

Senior UI/UX Designer
Ageas are on a journey of change, transforming our business to become a leading digital insurer which is what makes now the perfect time to join us! With great change comes the need for great people and with that in mind, our Digital team is expanding, and we have a number of exciting opportunities where you can play a pivotal part in Ageas' digital transformation.
Ageas UK have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Marketing & Digital team as a Senior UX/UI Designer who will be responsible for delivering user experience and interface design along with the development of Ageas' online presence. Our Senior UI/UX Designer will be accountable for the design of the digital customer experience journey, encompassing brochureware and full online application and transactional capability.

To be successful in the Senior UI/UX Designer role, you will need a strong understanding of user experience and human-centred design methodologies to shape the online customer journey, as well as functions and features of web design.

Please note: Most of your time will be spent working remotely, supported by necessary equipment, however adhoc travel to our Bournemouth office will be required on occasion.

Here are some of the main responsibilities of the Senior UI/UX Designer opportunity:
Ensuring that visitors to the Ageas website have a positive experience when visiting the customer facing portions of the site.
Working collaboratively with the digital analytics team to find and optimise issues within the customer journey and manage a programme of multivariate testing
Ensuring that functionality, site structure, information and architecture are aligned to a good customer experience.
To run user testing sessions and conduct research to feed into the UX strategy
Creating concepts, design and tests to ensure the customer journey and UI is best in class.
Ensuring the Ageas site is compliant, accurate, on brand and meets TCF guidelines.
Contributing to web projects e.g. implementation of promotional initiatives; addition of, or changes to, product offerings; changes to panel composition; price changes;
Working with agile teams to implement, influence and manage change.

Here are some of the key skills, experience and competencies required to be successful in the Senior UI/UX Designer role
Minimum 5+ years experience as a user focused, end to end UX/UI designer
Experience working with Agile and scrum teams (desired)
Proven experience in the build, test and implementation of websites
Ability to analyse and interpret user journey stats and digital analytics
Expert knowledge of design tools
Demonstrable experience and know how in user research
Expert knowledge of UX principles and Interaction design
Knowledge of 'best practise' usability function.
An excellent verbal and written communicator, being able to present and explain designs and key milestones deliverables to peers and senior stakeholders
Comfortable identifying and escalating risk where necessary.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Senior UI/UX Designer role:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities.
Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family - maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.
Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover
Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover
Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas

We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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