UX Designer Haymarket Media Group - Hammersmith (London, United Kingdom)

UX Designer

Haymarket Media Group - Hammersmith (London, United Kingdom)

Job Description

This is a mid-weight role and would suit someone with good design and preferably UX experience looking to improve their skills while working on high value brands. 
Haymarket Business Interactive is the in-house agency for Haymarket Business Media, based in Hammersmith, West London. The team comprises user experience designers, developers, QA’s and project managers who deliver and support our digital properties. From Campaign and Marketing to GP to Third Sector, we deliver solutions for market-leading brands across multiple platforms using a variety of technologies such as .net and Wordpress.
 

We have a great opportunity to join a focal team within a market-leading company. We are Agile advocates and we operate in an agency style, combining the fast pace and variety of a digital agency with the team spirit and ‘ownership’ of client work.
-You’ll work on brands such as Campaign, Marketing , GP, Windpower Monthly and Horticulture Week and will be a key player in our ability to develop new digital offerings across multiple platforms.
-With an empathetic eye for typography and obsession for fit and finish, you will, where necessary:
-Liaise with the various brands to obtain requirements
-Sketch out ideas and create wireframes and prototypes
-Design mockups in Fireworks and / or Photoshop
-Follow the build of the sites through the development team
-Be able to explain a rationale to your approach, incorporating user, advertiser and brand needs and best practise
-You will also work alongside the Business Intelligence specialists to elicit relevant and valuable customer insights that can support and inform your design direction.

Desired Skills & Experience

What You Have Done
-You’ll ideally have at least 3 year’s industry experience working within a digital design environment within a multi-brand environment
-You’ll have worked effectively with cross-functional teams
-You’ll be an experienced digital designer who has produced great looking websites….
-An exemplary understanding of branding
-Good communication skills.
-Understood the wider UX process (research, personas, use cases and screen flows)
 
Tools Of Your Trade
-Some of the things you’ll know…
-Photoshop 
-Fireworks
-How to put the user at the heart of design, you’ll know exactly what a persona is and be able to find and model journeys and scenarios.
Some of the things you’ll be pretty adept with…
-Illustrator
-Omnigraffle
-Prototyping software
-Some other stuff you use regularly…
-Analytics (Google Analytics)
-Online testing tools
-A/B and MVT tools
-Some nice to haves…
-If you can code (html, html5, css, javascript etc) that would be an advantage. If you can’t, you’ll still love and appreciate elegant code possess a great understanding of what technology does, can and can’t do. You love developers!
Who You Are
We are all about the people…
Haymarket stands for quality but is also a challenging and rewarding environment - a can-do attitude is vital
Fun, energetic and passionate
A ‘creative scientist’
Confident, self-sufficient and proactive

Company Description

Haymarket is a dynamic specialist media and information company that prides itself on its audience and client understanding.

We are international in location and thinking (you'll find us in the USA, UK, Hong Kong, India, Germany and Australia, and we license our brands in 33 countries).

We have consumer, business and customer media divisions, and we are a major organiser of exhibitions and live events.

Our audiences and clients are incredibly diverse - from medical professionals in the USA and UK, to football fans in 27 territories, to India car buyers looking for sound, expert advice.

That expertise and diversity makes Haymarket a great place to work: it's constantly challenging, and you will be surrounded by people who want the best result for our users.

It also makes Haymarket a great partner to work with; we understand specialist audience needs, and have a proven track record of helping to define a strategy that works.
A Flavour of Recent Projects

• We are in the process of making all our sites fully responsive, ensuring a great user experience on every device. Recent examples include http://www.citmagazine.com/ and http://www.windpowermonthly.com/
• We are constantly adding new features & functionality to our custom-built CMS, and UX input is required to ensure that the end users – our producers and editorial teams –are able to publish great content with ease and efficiency.
• Our recently launched GP and Campaign iPad apps are both consistently ranking in the top ten professional and trade newsstand apps.