Experience Designer - SmartShop - 12m FTC (Midweight)

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Key Responsibilities

Planning: Shape and plan your work and understand how it fits with the work of others in your Product team. User Research: Conduct user research through interviews, surveys, usability testing,

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A thriving design culture, opportunity to discuss and share work with open, coll

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Build collaborative relationships across Sainsbury’s through strong storytelling, communication, and influencing.

Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development and the wider design community to ensure design consistency across Sainsbury's ecosystem and alignment with business goals.

Run workshops with cross-functional teams to inspire user-centered design thinking and bring stakeholders on the same journey.

Work with the Guidelines team to continuously evolve our design system and guidelines and champion their adoption and implementation.

Champion inclusive design principles in your work and throughout the organization.

Support and inspire others in the team. Contribute to an inclusive team environment.

Strong visual, interaction, and interface design skills (basic animation skills a plus)

Solid understanding of UX and experience design principles and methodologies

Experience conducting user research and turning insights into design decisions

Proficiency with tools such as Figma and working within design systems

Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices

Ability to facilitate workshops and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills

Comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting to changing priorities

Proactive mindset with the ability to take initiative and drive outcomes

A strong portfolio demonstrating your design process and impact

Alongside this, we're looking for certain behaviors and competency skills. These skills will help you thrive in a dynamic team like ours.

Essential criteria: 

Extensive industry experience as a UX or Product Designer.

Ability to collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to ensure all business requirements are met.

Skilled in planning and conducting user research and distilling findings into actionable insights.

Proficient in applying UX fundamentals, including insight gathering, workshop facilitation, information architecture, Interface and interaction design and clearly documented design artifacts.

Willingness to travel to various store locations across the UK from time to time.

Support we will provide: 

A thriving design culture, opportunity to discuss and share work with open, collaborative feedback.

A mature design system and set of standards to work with.

Research, accessibility and UX copywriting expertise.

Mentoring, support and plenty of opportunity to hone your skill and progress in your career.

Tips and guidance on what we look for in portfolios: https://medium.com/p/1ace9c422d2

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).