Senior UX Designer - 24 month FTC

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Senior UX Designer 

Fixed Term Contract (24 months) 

Location: Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home). The Marketing department is split across various locations in the UK, so travel may be needed on occasion. 

Salary: A competitive salary from £50,880 – £63,600 depending on the experience you can bring 

Closing date: Friday 11th October

We’re Aegon - a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. We strive to make sure everyone that works for us feel seen, heard, and valued – so we’re looking for like-minded people to join us. We have three behaviours that are central to how we operate as a team and a business: we step up, we tune in and we’re a force for good. 

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging. 

The Job 

As our Senior UX Designer, you will contribute to the user experience (UX) design for Aegon’s digital estate. You’ll play a key role, working in a team of experts, in the creation of experiences for our many kinds of users. You’ll craft journeys from scratch as well as add pivotal features to existing ones that help change the lives of our customers. You’ll have a strong passion for design and problem solving where you can articulate the importance of this in a commercial and user-centric way. 

Learning, development and mentoring are very important for our discipline and you’ll be expected to share your knowledge and skillset with colleagues across the team; utilising and sharing skills in the areas of innovation, ideation, concept design and visioning. 

Key Responsibilities 

UX Design: The heart of your role which is filled with problem solving using the design thinking process at the core. End to end working on projects from understanding issues, deeper exploration, refining solutions and delivering designs. Helping other members in the team, particularly who are less experienced, is also crucial in your day to day. 

Collaboration: Work well with fellow UX Designers, as well as other UX Team colleagues within UI Design and User Research. Most projects/programmes involve a wide range of stakeholder engagement with colleagues across the business such as engineers, project managers, content representatives to name a few. Close collaboration and relationship building is key in your day to day. 

UX Storytelling: Effectively communicating designs with various stakeholders and team members. Pitching at correct levels, jargon free in some cases. You’ll also have strong persuasion skills, as that can play a very effective role in the art of storytelling. 

Inclusion Design: Designing for all is something we really strive for in our discipline. Accessibility plays a massive part in this and it will be expected you will have experience to aid our teams knowledge base of accessibility principles and WCAG guidelines. It’s fundamental to be actively prepared to learn more. 

We’d love to hear from you if you have: 

• Strong understanding of design thinking process and being able to conduct plays in each part of the process such as working with research, exploring concepts, wireframing and crafting prototypes. 

• Proficient knowledge in current wireframing tools and techniques (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD). Be comfortable in sharing knowledge of these tools and techniques also. 

• Solid understanding in aspects of UI Design and a design system – UX Designers at Aegon help our UI colleagues in the development of new components for our design system. 

• A solid understanding of the UX Research process, methods and techniques. 

• Ability to share knowledge with team and influence positive outcomes across all levels, functions and channels. 

• Ability to evaluate complex problems and use judgement and data to recommend and deliver innovative & creative solutions. 

• Effectively communicate and present complex conceptual thinking visually and verbally. 

• A desire to give back and help elevate designers in the team, particularly ones who have less experience. 

• Prior experience working in an agile way of working environment. 

• Good understanding of digital content management principles, technologies and workflow. 

What’s in it for you? 

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12% 

• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance 

• 36 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time) 

• We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments. 

• We ask everyone to be brave, raise their game, deliver first time, help others, and act in everyone’s best interests. If you recognise yourself in this, we’d love to hear from you.   

The legal bits 

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.