WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Industry experience as a mid-weight UX or Product Designer in a B2B setting. As are the core technical skills outlined below. Alongside this, we’re looking for certain behaviours and competency skills. These skills will help you thrive in a dynamic team like ours.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW AND SHOW

• System and service design experience to able to navigate complex and connected problem spaces
• Adaptable to changing priorities, complexity and unknowns
• Strong visual, interface and interaction design skills
• Excellent time management to work effectively across multiple projects
• Confidence challenging your peers and stakeholders
• Taking the initiative and driving change in a fast-paced environment
• Tailoring your approach for different audiences
• Expertise designing and prototyping with tools such as Figma
• Capable of conducting research and interpreting results
• Knowledge of how to design inclusively
• Influence and negotiation skills

THIS ROLE

This role is focused in the exciting B2B world of Nectar 360 Media Agency, which is a fully integrated loyalty, insights and media services agency that builds loyalty and personal connections with customers for the biggest UK and global brands. With more than 22 billion rows of Sainsburys data and granular shopping insights form 19 million customers, we have the full picture of what Sainsbury’s shoppers love now and what they will come to love in the future. By looking at what customers buy or not, we gather insights to help Brands develop integrated communication strategies and campaigns.
As an Experience Designer, you will be responsible for understanding how our suppliers and colleagues interact with us and what their needs and pain points are. Then alongside our business needs, you’ll design engaging digital solutions based on data, insight and research that create simple, intuitive experiences for users.
You will be working within a team of internal experienced designers, product managers and engineers alongside stakeholders from other parts of the operation who will rely on your knowledge of user experience, accessibility, and interaction design. You’ll also work alongside third-party external design and research agencies to harness specific expertise where needed.
The ideal candidate will have spent time in a mid-weight design role, be used to solving problems independently and collaboratively and advocate the value of design. You will need to use design thinking to plan out that work and get feedback from a range of stakeholders.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO

Design and test well-crafted end-to-end concepts and solutions.
Run design collaboration sessions with stakeholders from across the group to share insights and ideas.
Lead the creation of user journey flows.
Collaborate & align with key stakeholders around roadmap features and prioritisation.
Research supplier & colleague needs through observation and interviews.
Organise and conduct research and user testing.
Work within agile teams to get your solutions into the hands of our users.
Work with copywriters to brief new content needs across product modules as well as review the implementation of copy across sprints.
Coordinate with third party agencies: Act as a liaison between internal, eternal teams and development squads to ensure new UX and UI directions are feasible, aligned with business goals, and implemented in upcoming sprints.
Gather and prioritise feature requirements as well as ensuring smooth handovers to Engineering teams.
Champion accessibility and inclusive design principles in your work and throughout the team