User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer

Job Title:

User Experience Designer

Job Type: Fulltime, Permanent

Job Location:

Salford Quays, Manchester

Job

We’ve just had our tenth birthday, having grown from a little-known tech start-up into a community of 180 people, mostly based in Salford, Greater Manchester. We also have a significant presence in Cheltenham and London.

Our name was chosen as an amalgamation of two Japanese words, to reflect our ethos. This principle applies to every aspect of our organisation from technology, process and infrastructure, through to people, culture and leadership. People and culture are at the heart of Naimuri, so that collectively, we can realise our mission of making the UK a safer place to be.

We Work In An Agile-first Environment That Values Transparency, Collaboration, And Continuous Improvement. While Every Team Has Its Own Rhythm, You Can Expect

• A Culture of Enablement:
  Our goal is to remove blockers. You'll be empowered to make decisions and given the tools you need to get things done.
• Focus on Quality:
  We take pride in our work. You'll be part of a culture that values well-researched, user-centred designs and flows, and your work will serve as a "definitive example" for others.
• Active
  
  Collaboration:
  
  You'll work closely with Users, Product Owners and Software Engineers, championing the user experience throughout the design and development lifecycle and ensuring design solutions are viable.

At Naimuri, We Work On a Variety Of Projects That Range In Length From a Few Weeks To 5+ Years. Here Are Some Things We’ve Worked On Recently That Give a Sense Of The Work We Do

• Building a data analytics tool
• A Dev Ops platform to support 3000 users.
• Processing digital forensic data to enable search and insight generation.
• A search and reporting system
• A custom workflow tool
• An AI assurance capability

The User Experience Designer role is part of ACDC, an internal capability comprising Business Analysts, Business Change Managers, User Researchers, and User Experience Designers. The ACDC team's collective mission is to support all Naimuri delivery projects by delivering tangible and measurable value to customers, ensuring a clear understanding of the users challenge and requirements, and applying an intentional approach to designing, testing, and refining the user experience.

As a User Experience Designer at Naimuri, you will have the support to work on and deliver large tasks and projects with guidance from team members. You will take ownership of design tasks and actively enable the team through your growing expertise.

• Champion user-centred design, proactively applying multiple tools and methodologies to anticipate and tackle design blockers.
• Act as a skill or knowledge expert in a specific design discipline (e.g., accessibility, interaction design) for your team and the wider business, including upskilling others.
• Lead discovery workshops with users to help capture product feedback, and support user research.
• Create dynamic wireframes using Figma, reflecting UX design principles, and then confidently present these to customers to articulate your ideas.
• Translate concepts into prototypes and improve designs from user feedback or evaluation.
• Evaluate and recommend multiple design options, taking into account performance, security, usability and accessibility requirements.

• You enjoy breaking down ambiguous user problems into concrete, validated design solutions and user stories, and take pride in implementing a high-quality solution.
• You champion user needs and instigate collaboration with product, engineering, and stakeholders to enable successful, user-friendly delivery.
• You are comfortable challenging the status quo and look for ways to improve processes, user-facing products and design systems, and team efficiency.

Continuous Personal Development, or Personal Kaizen, is a core part of Naimuri's culture, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to develop in a transparent and supportive environment.

• You will be assigned a Mentor, usually outside of your…