Job: Senior UX Designer / UX Consultant

We’re hiring a Senior User Experience Designer (Perm. Full-Time or Part-Time.) to join our growing team.

Fruto is a UX Design studio based in Oxford. We design intuitive interfaces and meaningful experiences for the web, mobile and emerging technologies. We work with global organisations and early stage start ups, giving us a nice variety of work, perfect to help us grow as designers and keep innovative.

We enjoy working with projects that makes positive contribution to society. We work with a variety of sectors, including healthcare and education.

  • Level: Senior

  • Term: Permanent. Full-time or part-time (flexible hours)

  • Salary: £38,000 - £42,000 per annum pro rata

  • Reporting to: Managing Director

  • Location: Remote (attending meetings in Oxford and South-east UK)

The work

  • You’ll lead large-scale complex UX projects, from UX strategy, Design Ops to the delivery of UX techniques such as

  • Preparing, running and analysing User Research, such as user interviews, usability testing and card-sorting

  • Preparing UX Reviews and Heuristic Evaluations

  • Creating Information architectures and mapping out user journeys

  • Creating wireframes and clickable prototypes of websites and mobile apps

  • Creating user interface designs for websites and mobile apps

  • Leading clients meetings and workshops. This is a client-facing position.

  • As a senior designer, you’ll be expected to regularly review and help improve Fruto’s UX techniques and tools and help maintain operational templates with the latest best practices

  • You may be asked to represent the UX design discipline in new business meetings when needed

  • You may be asked to help develop the UX skills of other designers in the team in a form of coaching/mentoring and project reviews when needed

About you

  • You have experience taking on complex and strategic UX design work

  • You keep up to date with the latest best practices and are regularly sharing those with the team and externally

  • You are able to communicate with different disciplines and stakeholders such as business, technology, and other functional areas

  • You can see the big picture around a clients’s and Fruto's business objectives and needs for UX

  • You’re able to create a UX strategy that is in-line with the business objectives and strategy

  • You can present confidently and communicate the value of UX to different audiences

What we offer

  • Flexible working hours and locations

  • Yearly training budget (£1,000 per employee per year)

  • 25 days’ holiday + bank holidays

  • Company pension contribution

  • Healthcare insurance

  • a MacBook and other design kit as needed

  • Some allocated time for Industry-Sharing related tasks such as researching and writing blog posts, preparing and giving talks at meet-ups and conferences (Only if this is your cup of tea, this is not required.

  • Coaching. You’ll be working alongside Mariana, our Managing Director, and alongside a team of experienced UX/UI designers.

Location

Fruto is predominantly a remote team based in Oxfordshire. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we are not having any in-person meetings and we're all working from our own homes. In "normal" circumstances (ie. outside of the pandemic), you can work remotely from your home or from a co-working desk that we can provide in central Oxford. You must be able to attend in-person meetings in Oxford and client meetings in South-East England.

Working hours

Our standard full-time working week is 35 hours. Our core working hours are 10am until 3pm, being flexible either side.

Sound good?

Awesome! Send us your application to jobs@frutostudio.co.uk. We look forward to receiving your application! :)

  • Your CV (or link to your profile on Linked-in)

  • A short paragraph describing your experience in UX design

  • Examples of your work

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