Senior/ Lead UX Designer - EXCITING MED-TECH START-UP

Zazu Digital ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £65,000 per annum

Overview

Senior/ Lead UX Designer needed to join an exciting start-up working within the Med-Tech sector. Their product is to enable a community for healthcare, essentially a LinkedIn but aimed within medical. The product is an intelligent community platform where physicians can connect, share and learn in a more efficient, cost-effective and sustainable way. The Role: This will be the first User Experience hire, and is the first step to bringing Design, UX and UI in-house for the first time. The role will report into their newly appointed Product Director, and together these two will be tasked with building out a brand-new product team. What they are looking for: Someone with the ability to develop a new software product and take it to market, being able to methodically tackle UX problems, align with the vision of the company and turn that vision into design concepts. Right now their platform is a responsive web experience, but they are looking to ship a mobile app soon. You will have first-hand experience in creating mobile app experiences. Your Responsibilities: In working with the Product director, you will find practical solutions to user problems and use both UX and UI design skills to create experiences that are both visually appealing, and valuable to their users - across mobile and web. You will work with distributed engineering team to ship - overseeing that the design gets implemented as planned. You will help shape their product experience and design language, creating and maintaining design standards for the product. You will conduct and facilitate user research, from discovery through to evaluation You will recruit and manage your own internal UX / UI design team Who you are (Your character) You should be a self-starter, with great verbal and written communication skills, and able to work within a dynamic and fast paced environment. You’ll be comfortable bringing new ideas to the table and confidently able to lead all UX and design related activities. You have great energy and drive to develop and ship new features, with the ability to lead and inspire people to stay the course. What’s in it for you: A chance to join a fast-moving start up, with great backing, in a high-growth and high-value market - but that is also at an early enough stage that you can truly steer the platform from beta to scale, and personally benefit from the success you build. This is an ideal opportunity for a talented UX lead to step up They are a diverse and experienced team, who will afford you plenty of autonomy, while coaching you to fulfil your potential.