Experience Designer

About the job you're considering:

We are looking for a dynamic senior experience designer to join the award-winning Digital Experience team within Capgemini.

This role is dynamic and hands-on. You will be expected to support our delivery through user-centred design methods: translate user needs, business objectives, and technology capabilities into world-class experiences for leading companies and government. 

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time

Your role:

Evaluating existing systems in terms of usefulness, usability, visual design, content and branding
Researching users and business needs, turning these into insights that will help define user journeys and inform the design
Preparing, conducting, and analysing behavioural in-context user testing sessions and documenting the findings. Providing evidence-based recommendations to the client and internal team
Leading the development of personas based on research findings
Running workshops with stakeholders, users and technical team to align vision, drive consensus and insight discovery
Identifying opportunities to create business value and improve the user experience
Designing and presenting concepts and user interfaces for both mobile, tablet and desktop – including annotations for best practice in information architecture, navigation, and user flows.
Creating prototypes using tools such as Axure, Sketch and InVision to create and iterate clickable prototypes for user testing and stakeholder validation.
Preparing and conduct usability tests against clickable prototypes, take feedback and iterate the design
Liaising with development teams and architects to ensure data and technical considerations are accommodated within the design
Delivering great user experiences through relevant interfaces (doing the right thing), easy to use (doing it right), beautiful and on-brand (trustworthy).
Conducting knowledge sharing sessions and support less senior members of the team
Helping drive the Experience Design team’s vision and direction
Experience with Government projects within the Government Digital Service (GDS) standard is desirable

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, stiving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience:

As an experienced member of the team, you will make a positive impact on the quality of our offer by leading the design and UX activity for critical projects. You will also mentor and support other members of the team and contribute to the development of our strategy.

• Ideally, industry experience at a senior level. Preferably working for a consulting firm or agency
• Degree preferred within a design-related discipline: i.e.: Interaction, Information or Interface design; Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design etc.
• Candidates must be versed in user-centred design methods and techniques.  Proficient to expert in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, Sketch, InVision, Axure etc.
• Excellence in analytical thinking, process-oriented skills, verbal and written skills.  Experience in working within an Agile manner within a commercial environment
• An understanding of web technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript) and mobile design patterns.  Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams
• Keen to learn, evolve, and continually challenge yourself and the way you do things.  Good portfolio (web-link or PDF) outlining your contribution towards each project (all submissions treated with the strictest confidence)

Your security clearance:

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. 
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does "Get the future you want" mean for you?

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.  
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more 

Why you should consider Capgemini

About capgemini:

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.