UX Designer

Salary Range: 45000 to 80000 (Currency: GBP) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What’s the opportunity for a UX Designer at Gearset?

• Join our growing and experienced UX team, laser-focused on delighting our users
• You’ll own & drive the full design process from discovery through to delivery: turning research insights into ideas, designing the workflows and UI for features, getting them shipped in product releases and monitoring their success
• Partner with product managers to research and understand the jobs to be done for our customers & lead user research to discover friction and unmet needs
• Work closely with engineering teams to ship projects that help address customer needs and add value to the Gearset platform
• This role comes with plenty of opportunity to lead the research and design for core workflows on the Gearset platform

What you’ll achieve

• Working with customers to understand their needs; you’ll plan & conduct generative product research to help discover needs and uncover points of friction
• Iterating on ideas, with peers, to solve those needs; you’ll share & seek feedback on work with other designers, product managers and engineers
• Prototyping solutions to validate their value with users; you’ll organise & lead evaluative research with engineering teams, focusing on target users
• Collaborating with teams to get the right solution shipped on our platform; you’ll work with engineers to get features into the hands of our customers
• Advocate and initiate new research, design and engineering work to improve shipped projects and to shape new projects
• Support your peers in the UX team; pairing and reviewing work, actively providing feedback and helping the team mature and grow

About you

• You are enthusiastic about working with customers to build and deliver the right solution that empowers them and adds value to the Gearset platform
• You can effectively create and communicate ideas for research and design work
• Love designing simple, intuitive and delightful solutions to customer problems 
• Are pragmatic when it comes to design choices and make objective design decisions, always advocating for the best possible user experience
• Have experience shipping products and working in a continuous development environment

Great to haves

• Experience working on technical applications or developer tools
• Have experience of working with hosted (SaaS) products 

Salary, benefits and hours

• Salary is £45,000 - £80,000 per annum depending on experience
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a month in the office)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Personal L&D budget of up to £1500 per year
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & Critical Illness cover
• Flexible working hours
• Free lunch in the office
• Health and wellness benefits
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive scheme