UX / Information Architect

Salary: £280 per day
Type: Freelance
Location: Central London

One of the biggest players in online payments urgently requires a User Experience / Information Architect to help build simple and elegant products for their digital offering across the web, mobile and social networks.

Working in fast-moving, focused product teams alongside product managers, copywriters, visual designers and developers, you will be responsible for leading and managing all UE / IA activities on often complex projects. You will conceptualise, test and realise products and features which are simple, engaging and a delight to use.

You will:

- Create the information architecture of transactional, informational and marketing areas of the main website and related services.
- Research and understand target audience needs, tasks and goals and be able to translate them into great concepts.
- Work collaboratively with visual designers, copywriters and developers in Agile teams to create experiences that engage both new and existing users.
- Build prototypes at different levels of fidelity (both paper and digital) for demonstration and testing purposes.
- Be confident presenting your designs and decisions to stakeholders at all stages of the product development process.
- Work closely with business leads to analyse, improve and optimise existing user journeys.

About you:

- You have substantial experience in a similar role within in multi-disciplined, results-focused teams.
- You've got the experience to quickly producing elegant and easily-understood diagrams, process maps, functional prototypes and wireframes both on paper and using a tool such as Axure, Visio and/or Omnigraffle as necessary.
- You're a strong advocate for user-centred design and are able to deploy a range of techniques to ensure user and stakeholder needs are aligned.
- You're flexible and adaptable by nature and will be comfortable working to both linear project delivery plans and agile methodologies.
- You have experience of usability testing and running focus groups.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- You must be a great team player but also able to work on your own as required.
- You need strong organisational skills and have a keen eye for detail.

If you think you meet the grade and you are ready to prove it, send your CV now and we will be in touch to run through things in more detail.