UX Lead at MediaMonks LDN
MediaMonks, United Kingdom

Our lovely London office is seeking a Lead UX with a specialism in Platforms (Website and Apps). In this senior role, you’ll work directly across a range of our exciting clients.

Role amp; Responsibilities

The UX Lead will work alongside the Business Strategist to ensure and plan that the client’s ad-hoc briefs and our ongoing design improvement briefs are structured as part of the strategic bigger picture, making sure that we’re always heading towards our bigger strategic goal for our clients.

Day-to-day, the UX Lead will work with the client, take their briefs, interrogate, question and understand their actual needs. Then the UX Lead will prioritise briefs against current work streams and work with the production team UX Lead to ensure the design teams fully understand the ask and are working in-line with the client’s needs.

If your strategies are as thoughtful as your motivation, we’d like to meet you to tell you more about our super-fast-moving but easy-going company and the things we love outside work, including winter sports. In addition to an unlimited supply of A-list clients, A+ colleagues and A-OK coffee, MediaMonks gets you a one-of-a-kind company culture, celebrated through all the awards.

Please be attentive to the requirements for this position and accompany your portfolio with a short cover letter detailing why you’re the right Monk for this role.

Requirements

• For this senior-level role, we’re looking to hire someone with 5+ years of high-level experience devising successful UX strategies for global platforms.
• Your portfolio demonstrates superior process, research and problem-solving skills, along with a talent for presentation.
• You have a knack for creating clear and actionable strategy proposals, free of needless jargon and empty words, going beyond the obvious, and never slipping into the pitfall of bullshit.
• You’re a hands-on practitioner, not afraid of sitemaps, experience maps and block diagrams, always eager to get your hands dirty and help shape both the briefs and actual UX design work.
• You have functional research skills and know all about the good, the bad and the ugly of digital products and platforms.
• You can plan and run user research and user testing sessions.
• Your critical understanding of digital media and its users enables you to ask the right questions to better-define what needs to be achieved in the first place.
• You care deeply about effect because you value people’s time more than anything in the world; your great sense of empathy allows you to propose user-centric solutions.
• You can provide UX leadership for colleagues and clients alike as a go-to person for best practices and new developments in the field of UX and product design.
• Months-long projects do not scare you, and you find no job too small for a rounded and grounded UX strategy.

At MediaMonks, you’ll join a young, fun, successful and fast-moving creative company. MediaMonks is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sex stereotyping (including assumptions about a person’s appearance or behaviour, gender roles, gender expression, or gender identity), pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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