UX / UI Manager

Ageas • Permanent • Remote • max £65k / year • 1w ago

Job Title: UX/UI Manager

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: Up to £65,000 depending on experience

Location: Remote with adhoc travel to our Bournemouth and Eastleigh office

UX/UI Manager: Ageas are on a journey of change, transforming our business to become a leading digital insurer which is what makes now the perfect time to join us! With great change comes the need for great people and with that in mind, our Digital team is expanding, and we have a number of exciting opportunities where you can play a pivotal part in Ageas’ digital transformation.

The UX/UI Manager will lead a team of UX/UI designers, planning the delivery roadmaps for each digital journey and ensuring they align to business priorities. As a UX/UI Manager, you will regularly communicate deliveries and the roadmaps to stakeholders around the business to ensure visibility and build the understanding around digital experience.

The UX/UI Manager will adopt a digital first approach within an agile methodology framework, this role will be required to work collaboratively with Product Owners, Developers, Business Leads and other designers within their team and across the organisation to lead design decisions.

Please note: Most of your time will be spent working remotely, supported by necessary equipment, however adhoc travel to our Bournemouth office will be required on occasion.

Main Responsibilities as UX/UI Manager:

Oversee the delivery of all UX/UI initiatives that enhance digital experience and site functionality
Mentor and technically develop your direct reports (including other designers), encouraging them to learn and grow their skill set. Have strong digital industry awareness of emerging technologies and trends
Be accountable, in many instances, for decision making in changes relating to the online customer journey.
In consultation with the Senior Digital Journey Manager, this role will lead the design of useful, useable, and desirable design patterns within a collaborative team environment, encouraging a culture to positively critique others designs.
Lead the idea generation for an ongoing ‘test and learn cycle’ within the team, leveraging AB/MVT capability and competitor analysis to shape ongoing experience development to deliver good commercial and customer outcomes.

Skills and experience you need as UX/UI Manager:

Strong experience leading a team of UX / UI Designers
Proven experience with design tools such as Adobe XD, and Figma.
Strong portfolio showcasing web and mobile design projects.
Advanced knowledge of UX/UI design and development, including wireframing, prototyping, and visual design
Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, responsive and mobile-first design.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the UX/UI Manager role:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth – Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks’ at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information please see Ageas Everyone.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.

To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

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