User Experience Designer (Freelance or Permanent) for Moo.com

Senior User Experience Designer

OVERVIEW

We are looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our dynamic Product and UX team. Working in a fast-paced environment, you will be leading the user-centred design process across MOO’s multi-Webby award winning website, mobile, and other digital projects.

RESPONSIBILITES

• You’ll work closely with UI/design and collaborate with colleagues across many disciplines; product, technical, creative, customer services and marketing
• Taking projects through from conception to completion, ensuring your designs are implemented by developers as intended
• Producing detailed wireframes, storyboards, site-maps and other specifications for build
• Conducting research and competitor analysis, and organising usability testing for the digital products and services that you design
• Designing within MOO’s UX strategy and brand guidelines, following established interaction patterns and defining new ones
• Balancing business requirements with user needs
• Representing the user’s perspective at all times and work with the other UX designers to raise the user focus within MOO
• Planning your own time and keeping project documentation up to date

ABOUT YOU

Design:

• You’ll have at least 5 years’ experience as a UX Designer, Interaction Designer or Information Architect
• A outstanding portfolio of UX design work, demonstrating your design process from sketch work to full, annotated wireframes and flows
• You’ll have seen numerous creative projects through to delivery
• Extensive experience at creating production-level wireframes and storyboards using Omnigraffle, Illustrator or Visio
• Ability to explore every scenario and an excellent eye for detail and consistency applied to all design work
• You’ll be an experienced user of Photoshop or Fireworks

Communication and organisation:

• Working independently and managing your own time, producing UX project plans and time estimates
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey ideas visually, in writing and face-to-face

General

• E-commerce experience and a track-record of delivering design improvements with measurable commercial impact
• Confident using analytics and other data in order to inform design decisions
• Being up-to-date with UX/UI design best practice
• Experience with content management systems, an understanding of SEO, and website accessibility

It would be nice if you had:

• Experience prototyping in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Creative facilitation experience
• A familiarity with Agile development methodologies

SALARY
Dependent on experience

REPORTING
The Head of Product

LOCATION
Shoreditch, London

ABOUT MOO
MOO is an award-winning online print business

Founded in 2004, MOO aims to disrupt the $100 billion global print industry by combining the values of professional design with the accessibility and reach of the web.

MOO prints millions of cards a month and has hundreds of thousands of customers in over 180 countries. MOO has also become a much-loved brand, with a 75% NetPromoter rating.

The company has won 3 Webby awards (the web's Oscars), has been profiled in the Financial Times, and was ranked in the top 10 UK start-up companies by the Guardian Newspaper. MOO currently employs 90 staff and has offices in London, UK and Rhode Island, USA.

MOO has also raised over $5m in venture capital from the Accelerator Group, Index Ventures and Atlas Venture, the investors behind Skype, Betfair, Lovefilm, Last.fm and MySQL.