Hugo & Cat Limited: Senior UX Designer (Freelance)

UX Designer is needed in London, United Kingdom.

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Client: Hugo & Cat Limited

Location: London, UK

Contract: Contractor

Project Length:

2 weeks with possibility to extend

About the Company:

Hugo & Cat is a digital agency that creates products and experiences to give businesses a competitive edge. With a team of 120 people in London, New York, and Manila, they are part of the IPG network.

Position: Senior UX Designer

As a Senior UX designer at Hugo & Cat, you’ll craft exciting and innovative experiences for major brands, and drive customer-centric practices within the team. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to craft experiences people love. Through audience research and experience definition, product design, and user testing, you will drive the end-to-end design process, always leading by example. Your role will involve championing empathy and insight at each step to ensure that product visions, complex information, and new features connect with customers’ needs. This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced UX Designer to take on a new challenge.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day responsibility and ownership of the User Experience across an exciting new project for one of our major clients.
• Champion design thinking approaches, including workshops and co-creation sessions to ideate, validate and drive forward innovative design.
• Responsibility for planning, conducting, and synthesizing appropriate research to dive into the customer mindset and effectively communicate your insights to ensure the wider team can apply this knowledge.
• Work alongside members of our visual design team to co-create new designs, taking a specific lead on information architecture, functional components and ensuring accessibility is considered throughout (Figma experience preferred).
• Confidently communicate and present your work, helping to take clients on an evidence-based journey of design to build consensus around your thinking.
• Proven experience in crafting digital products or services across a range of projects or industries, including primary research and user testing experience.
• Examples of hands-on collaboration to produce best-in-class deliverables, including wireframes, user journeys, presentations, and prototypes.
• Ability to connect research to insight, and insight into designed experiences.
• Confident communication skills, with a natural ability to present, articulate, and effectively communicate design decisions.
• The drive to always bring new thoughts to the table and combine strategic thinking with tactical execution.
• A team player mindset, naturally connecting UX thinking to other disciplines and supporting the design process from planning through to development and launch.

Requirements:

• A CV to help us understand who you are and where you’ve come from.
• A portfolio or presentation showcasing your work and thinking.
• Senior-level applicants at Hugo & Cat usually arrive with approximately 4 years of experience working in a professional UX or service design setting.
• Please only apply to this role if you are trading as a limited company or a sole trader.

Working Environment:

We’ve made the shift to a flexible working model where employees can split their time between the office and working remotely. We can discuss the details during the interview process.

Equal Opportunities:

We’re an equal opportunities employer and are committed to a fair and unbiased assessment of job applications. Once you join the team, we support you to realize your potential, regardless of age, origin, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical abilities, or beliefs.