Senior Design Strategist - Inside IR35

Investigo's major client is currently seeking an experienced Senior Design Strategist to work on various UX research and creative projects with multiple stakeholders, constraints and competing demands. You will be working on a variety of projects to plan and implement research methodologies to gather industry, user, and expert inputs, translating them into clear insights and innovation strategies. Develop partnerships within your assigned team(s) and foster effective relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive/ complex research projects, utilising mixed methodologies to provide insight on trends, collaboratively generate ideas and validate design solutions to enhance our brand in the eyes of our customers.
• Contribute to a variety of strategic/ research initiatives to advance organisational thinking and unlock investment.
• Deliver day-to-day project planning, methodologies, conducting and capturing fieldwork, expert, and customer interviews.
• Mentor/ manage more junior research staff.
• Deliver enhancements of our strategic research / design thinking processes and methodologies.
• Play an active role in championing our design ethos, providing expert guidance to junior and non-design staff.
• Develop good working relationships with stakeholders.

Key skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in user-experience research.
• University degree or equivalent industry experience in psychology, HCI, UX Design, UX Research.
• Compelling portfolio consisting of numerous strategic/ research projects showcasing your thinking, contribution, actions, and outcomes.
• Successfully led the research activities on digital/ physical products.
• Experience working with Agile, Lean, Sprint-based processes.
• Excellent technical skills with Dscout, UserZoom, Survey Monkey or equivalent.