Senior UI Designer – Customer

Senior UI Designer – Customer  
We’re looking for a passionate, skilled and bold Senior UI Designer to join our   
multidisciplinary team!  
As a Senior UI Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket, you’ll be crafting   
experiences that help millions of people shop better. You’ll discover new   
opportunities, creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of a   
customer’s shopping journey. You’ll balance business objectives with user   
expectations, crafting design solutions that exceed both. And you’ll know how to fail   
fast, get back up, and try again.  
Audiences don't get bigger or more diverse than this. So you’ll really need to know   
your onions. That includes a big appetite for innovative interaction design,   
prototyping and testing, and data and analytics. Collaboration mixed with expertise   
and insight is the recipe for successful design. So you’ll be working with some of the   
finest UX and UI designers, researchers, UX writers, service designers, data and   
analytics experts, product managers and developers.  
Our secret ingredient is our Digital Design System. So you’ll need true expertise   
using one, whether it's just a pinch to improve a prototype or a big dollop to shape a   
whole user journey!  
Here’s a taste of what you can expect.  
You’ll join a business that values your expertise, experience and insight. That   
nurtures your personal and career growth, with opportunities for every stage of your   
journey. You’ll be a crucial part of a dedicated team full of individuals from various   
backgrounds who share your drive and ambition. You'll enjoy a hybrid role that   
creates the perfect work/life balance, helping you be who you are both professionally   
and personally.   
About the role  
As a Senior UI Designer at Tesco, you will:  
• Design the UI for large and small multi-platform projects from start to finish,   
redefining complicated experiences into simple and intuitive UI solutions.  
• Own all end-to-end UI process activities including interaction design discovery,   
identifying trends and critically analysing their viability, sketching, wire
framing, prototyping and delivering ready for build design files.  
• Collaborate with various teams: You will collaborate closely with UX designers,   
researchers, UX writers, engineers, product managers, data analysts, and   
business partners to explore, build, and deliver designs.  
• Champion human-centred design inside and outside of your team.  
• Work within and across agile squads to design, develop and improve the   
customer experience across our digital products.  
• Partner with UX researchers to help your team develop empathy for our   
customers, including those with a disability, and advocate for their needs,   
validating designs via A/B testing, un-moderated, usability testing, etc.  
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas   
and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development   
cycle  
• Partner with the analytics team to help advise your work.  
• Facilitate workshops, run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory   
design sessions.  
• Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible designs.  
• Deliver valuable, high-quality, and consistent work without sacrificing speed   
by using our Digital Design System and its standardised foundations,   
components and patterns.  
• Collaborate with the design system team to help evolve our Digital Design   
System based on user needs.  
• Help other fields understand the value design can bring to a project to build   
the best products.  
• Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your   
team to gain efficiency, remove obstacles, and simplify workflows.  
• Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco   
as a whole.  
• Help your team mates build expertise, strong decision-making skills, and   
empathy for our customers.  
• Embrace opportunities to line manage other designers and help with their   
learning and development.  
• Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive, supportive, and inclusive   
team culture.  
About you  
To get this role, you will need:  
• 5+ years of UI design experience.  
• Exceptional UI design skills, including interaction design  
• A strong, well-curated portfolio demonstrating your expertise across web,   
responsive and native app.  
• Strong experience in high-profile design projects in a customer-facing   
commercial environment.  
• A high level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma.  
• A good knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and technologies.  
• Proficiency in designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level   
AA.  
• A good understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process.  
• Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience.  
• Experience collaborating closely with multiple fields, including product and   
engineering.  
• Self-motivation, and good organisational and time-management skills.  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to present skills   
to all levels of seniority and subject area experts within the organisation.  
• The ability to coach, mentor and set standards for ways of working for more   
junior team members.  
• Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc.  
• Previous experience in the retail sector is an advantage.