Senior UX Experience Designer

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:

As a senior UX designer you will work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to develop a high level User Experience vision and strategy for our Aerospace and Defense product line with a specific focus on user research, visual design and interaction design for web and mobile interfaces.  You will support multiple SCRUM teams as you apply an iterative user centered design process. As part of this process, you will create design concepts and solutions for specified problems (sketches, wireframes, and paper prototypes) and iteratively test, validate, and refine design concepts and prototypes with users and internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in designing user experience for web and  mobile based business applications and responsive and adaptive UX design
• Experience in using visual user interface design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Fireworks
• Experience in compelling UX design concepts, mockups, wireframes, and prototypes using tools such as Figma, Axure, Invision or others
• Strong knowledge of methods and techniques in information architecture, user research, interaction design, visual UI design, and usability testing  in the context of responsive web applications
• Capability to iteratively create and test design ideas and concepts
• Good understanding of current web and mobile UI technologies, trends, and concepts
• Experience with UX design in an agile development environment.
• Team-player with strong interpersonal skills comfortable working as part of distributed team
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and colleagues in individual and group settings
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

As a plus

• Experience in publishing or content management
• Experience in Aerospace and Defense industry
• Experience with JavaScript, REST, HTML5, CSS3, Ajax, jQuery, XML, XSL
• Experience with Jira/Confluence
• Experience with front-end development

Benefits:

• Amazing benefits. (Seriously!)
• Infinite training, professional development and personal growth opportunities.
• The rare opportunity to impact how organizations communicate globally. There’s a reason we work with 90 of the top 100 brands.
• Smart, engaged co-workers, a culture of diversity, innovation and opportunity.
• Great work life balance!

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 

As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration.

We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

RWS is an Affirmative Action Employer.  Qualified applicants will be evaluated for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran, and disability status.  For more information about EEO/AAP legislation please visit: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.