Job Description
Description
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week
Salary: circa £60.000
Location: Canary Wharf
WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week
Flexible working: Informal flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion including a 9-day fortnight.
Visa sponsorships: LCCC does not sponsor visas currently so you will need to hold a valid UK passport or a valid visa to work in the UK.
Reports to: Technical Governance Lead
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.
Role Summary:
As a UI/UX Designer, you'll ensure that the 'user experience' for individuals using LCCC websites or applications is as seamless and pleasurable as possible. You'll be involved in the design of digital products and services for specific target groups and end users and will need to understand motivations.
You'll work collaboratively with other members of the delivery team and the wider business to ensure that products and services meet needs.
Key Responsibilities
As a UI/UX Designer, you'll handle the full spectrum of users' impressions and interactions with the LCCC brand.
- Gather information about their requirements
- Propose and sketch out a range of visual concepts both on paper and using software applications
- Create and maintain user personas, user journeys and site maps
- Work closely with the product managers and customers to validate initial solution ideas (scribbles), and drive the elaboration of concepts into wireframes and more formalised designs
- Ensure the user experience is good cross-platform - mobile phones, tablets and computers
- Work collaboratively with the development teams, business analysts, and project managers
- Liaise regularly with users both internal and external to ensure designs meet their requirements and core business objectives
- Run UI/UX workshops for internal stakeholders
- Identify areas for improvement for existing tools
- Redesign websites to make them more accessible and responsive
- Ensure design standards, guidelines and best practices are adhered to
- Lead research and insight projects to understand user needs
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Essential:
- You have at least 3 years of experience in the areas of UI/UX design delivering transformative user interfaces and user experiences
- The ability to communicate your designs and user journeys to key stakeholders both technical and non-technical
- You are well-versed in common design tools and can handle them professionally and efficiently
- You want to make things happen and are motivated by having a real impact on the success of the business
- You love to be challenged and thrive in a fast-paced environment. Like us, you are a person of conviction and you feel like you will thrive in our culture
Highly desirable:
- Extensive experience in fast-paced Agile environments
- Experience in JIRA and Confluence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Employee Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:
- 25 days' annual leave and bank holidays
- Recognition schemes allowing colleagues to say thanks
- Company contribution to your pension scheme
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced company maternity/paternity and shared parental benefits
- Employee assistance programme for free, confidential support for your professional or personal life, including financial management and family care
- Special leave such as study leave, sabbatical or public duties
- Three days paid leave a year for volunteering to support your local community
- Season ticket loan scheme to support your commute
- Access to “Work Perks” offering deals, discounts and cash back on your purchases
- Family savings on days out and English Heritage or gym discounts through our partners.
About Low Carbon Contracts Company
The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) exists to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.
LCCC’s main responsibility, amongst many, is managing the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) scheme which are agreements LCCC has made with renewable generators. These agreements are private law contracts to provide investors with confidence when investing in low carbon technology. CfDs are also designed to help and manage price increases for consumers, when electricity prices are high. See here for more information on how CfDs work: LCCC CfD Video on Vimeo.
LCCC’s other responsibilities include management of money flows across energy suppliers to fund the CfD portfolio, settlement of the capacity market and develop new schemes. Find out more about all that we do by visiting our main page.
Want to know what’s important to us and what’s expected? See here: Values | Low Carbon Contracts Company Careers (pinpointhq.com).
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £60.00 per day