Experience Designer - Recommendations – 12m FTC at Sainsburys DTD

Manchester, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Aug, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

10 May, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Visual Design, Interface Design, Interaction Design, Figma, AI Tools, User Research, Inclusive Design, Influence And Negotiation, Stakeholder Management, UX Fundamentals, Information Architecture, Workshop Facilitation, Prototyping, Agile Methodology, Product Design, Insight Gathering

Industry

Retail

Description

Experience Designer – Recommendations – 12m FTC At Sainsbury’s we believe that the customer should be at the heart of everything we do. Our vision is to create the easiest, most enjoyable experiences that better serve our customers’ ever-changing needs. We work across a range of services, products, touch points and tools to deliver distinctive, integrated, and consistent experiences for our customers and colleagues across Sainsbury’s Group (which includes Sainsbury’s Food, Argos, Bank, Nectar, Tu and Habitat). We drive brilliant experiences across all our brands in-store and online, operating in agile teams and squads, working seamlessly with teams right across the business to make the most of the exceptional knowledge, insight and talent we have. The role: You'll be working on Sainsbury’s products within our General Merchandising team, which are mostly focused on our end to end digital experiences for Argos, Habitat and Tu. We take 1.2 billion transactions from our customers each year, which gives you an idea of the scale and complexity of the space you’ll be working in. You’ll get to work on our new product and experience launches, work closely with our in-store teams and collaborate with wider design disciplines ensure a truly excellent end to end experience for our customers. In your product team, you’ll lead design, work with researchers to lead discovery and testing of new ideas and help define the roadmap, your aim will be to understand our customers and the problems they face. The changes you make will impact millions of customers in one of the UK's largest retailers. What you'll do: * Research customer needs through observation and interviews * Organise and conduct in-store and remote research * Interact with stakeholders from across the group to share insights and ideas * Design and test concepts and solutions * Collaborate with diverse teams from different disciplines * Champion inclusive design principles in your work and throughout the team * Work within agile teams to get your solutions in to the hands of our customers What we're looking for: Industry experience as a UX or Product is essential. As are the core technical skills outlined in the role details above. Alongside this, we're looking for certain behaviours and competency skills. These skills will help you thrive in a dynamic team like ours. Skills we're looking for: * Strong visual, interface and interaction design skills * Expertise designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma * Effective use of AI tools to accelerate research, ideation and design delivery * Capable of conducting research and interpreting results * Knowledge of how to design inclusively * Influence and negotiation skills * Adaptable to changing priorities, complexity and unknowns * Confidence challenging your peers and stakeholders * Taking the initiative and driving change * Tailoring your approach for different audiences Essential criteria: * Extensive industry experience as a UX or Product Designer. * Ability to collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure all business requirements are met. * Skilled in planning and conducting user research and distilling findings into actionable insights. * Proficient in applying UX fundamentals, including insight gathering, workshop facilitation, information architecture, Interface and interaction design and clearly documented design artifacts. Support we will provide: * A thriving design culture, opportunity to discuss and share work with open, collaborative feedback * A mature design system and set of standards to work with * Research, accessibility and UX copywriting expertise Tips and guidance on what we look for in portfolios: https://medium.com/p/1ace9c422d2

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Responsibilities

Lead the design and discovery process for digital experiences across Argos, Habitat, and Tu brands. Collaborate with researchers and stakeholders to design, test, and implement inclusive customer-centric solutions within agile teams.