UX Designer
Tes Global
London
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 31 January 2019
Job overview
We are looking for a UX Designer with a flare for usable and engaging UI, especially in the complex space of data presentation and visualisation.
While committed to user research, you know how to keep it focussed and relevant. You can lead design workshops with teams including product managers, developers and data scientists, and you’re able to use anything from paper to whiteboards to Sketch app – whatever it takes – to help stakeholders envision the solution you design with the team.
You thrive on close collaboration with other disciplines to iterate on ideas throughout the delivery cycle, ensuring designs reflect both user aspirations and technical reality.
The THE product, design and development team is responsible for shaping, building and managing our digital products:
i. DataPoints, our flagship data and analysis tools for the world’s elite research universities;
ii. World University Rankings, our data-led content offerings for academic and students on timeshighereducation.com across the desktop and mobile;
iii. the commercial platform, our branding and hiring-solutions products for institutional clients.
Our job is to understand our customers’ and users’ needs, create products and experiences that are valuable to for B2B and B2C audiences alike, and provide our commercial teams with a market-leading offering they can take to the world’s best universities. We are looking for the right person to join our team and build on the success we have already gained among our growing international client base.
Purpose of the Role
This role owns UX design for THE in two broad product sets:
● DataPoints: New product development to bring clients actionable insights from new types of data.
● Rankings / Platform: Manage day-to-day delivery of UX enhancements to the THE branding platform.
As part of your duties you will:· Have complete end-to-end ownership of design direction and delivery for THE’s digital products.
· Initiate, and clearly communicate design process and activities, to the whole product and development team, from each project kick-off to delivery.
· Assist product managers, data scientists and developers throughout the delivery cycle.
· Use behavioural / research data to support your design. Substantiate your work with data, customer feedback, and usability findings.
· Define and deliver design interactions and, importantly, scalable patterns to the development team.
· Coordinate with the rest of the team to identify new ways of working, different software and tools, for improved processes and ultimately, solutions
What you'll bring to the role:
- Significant experience in a professional web/UX design environment
- Demonstrable experience of designing products which present complex data in an elegant way
- Lean/Agile UX methodologies
- Prototyping, paper or fully interactive
- Familiarity with core web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS)
- Clean and modern UI design
- Understanding of accessibility standards
- Organised with good time-management
- Clear communication and understanding with stakeholders
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About Tes Global
- Tes Global
- 3 St Paul’s Place, Norfolk Street, Sheffield
- South Yorkshire
- S1 2JE
- United Kingdom
Tes Global is a digital education company that has been supporting educators for over 100 years.
Our mission is what we stand for. ''We believe in the power of great teaching. We support and connect teachers and schools worldwide, helping them to improve children's lives through education''
Our company
We’re aiming to develop the products and services that will make the biggest difference in global education. We’re providing teachers and schools with training, resources and jobs services alongside the world’s largest online teacher community.
We are working to making a difference in the lives of educators, children and students by building a strong and sustainable digital education company, with commercial and social purpose that will improve standards in education worldwide.
Our culture
We put educators at the heart of everything we do and we‘re passionate about the difference we’re making in global education. We succeed by working together to develop and deliver by collaborating across teams and global locations.
We’re excited about our future; we’re embracing new ideas, innovative ways of working and open technologies so that we can help every educator in the world to raise global teaching standards.
Our people
We treat others’ as we would like to be treated ourselves – with dignity and respect. We’re sociable people with a sense of fun and if you believe in improving education worldwide we’ll warmly welcome you here.
We are diverse, we come from different backgrounds and different countries; we are teachers, journalists, designers, technologists, sales people, events managers, software engineers and more. We are socially engaged and united by our passion to support educators, schools, universities and students to ensure that everyone has the best education wherever they are.
Our rewards and benefits
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and engaging workplace where we value everyone’s contribution. We have high expectations and our people work hard so when it comes to our benefits, we have everything you’d expect, from health insurance, generous annual holiday entitlement and retirement benefits. But we also offer more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are and are there to support your work / life balance, your health, your development and your financial security.
Our commitment to diversity
We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation and we believe that we are stronger when we are inclusive. You’ll be treated fairly whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or family circumstances.
Everyone is responsible for the promotion and advancement of our diversity policy and we are an Equal Opportunities employer. As such, we are committed to ensuring a culture of equal opportunities with respect and dignity at work for all employees.
Our locations
We are a truly global company with a presence in the UK, US, Australia and beyond, and everyone, in every location is an integral part of the Tes team.
Join our team to help make a difference in global education. Check out our latest job opportunities below and apply or send your CV and covering letter to careers@tesglobal.com
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