Digital Experience Designer

Company description

We are the AA. And we keep everyone’s show on the road. There for our customers wherever and whenever they need us, we’re always ready for anything. That’s why, for over 100 years, we’ve continued to evolve and adapt. Today, as the nation’s number one motoring organization, we offer a range of excellent products and services to millions of customers.

Location: London (WFH in current situation)

Salary: Up to £55,000

6 month FTC (full time)

This is the job

Reporting directly to the Digital Experience Design Lead, you will be responsible for designing the user experience of our core journeys. You will work alongside, and collaborate with, other talented designers, editors, product owners and developers to deliver an excellent customer experience across all channels. As well as new feature and product design, you will also work closely with the Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) Manager to design challenger candidates for split-tests and brief winning versions to developers.

You will have a strong background in a range of techniques from the design thinking and lean toolkits and be in your element facilitating user centric product discovery. You have demonstrable experience synthesising and visualising complex insights to drive alignment and decision-making.

As well as this, you are naturally collaborative and possess strong storytelling skills. You can design and craft quality digital user journeys across app and web that demonstrate a thorough understanding of design standards and principles, whilst working collaboratively in a cross-functional agile team.

You will need to be a positive self-starter and a customer advocate who is always keen to understand customer needs and behaviour. You will formulate hypotheses for iterative improvement and use conceptual design techniques to inform the high-fidelity designs you produce. You will need to test and validate the experiences you design and can call on a variety of methods to do so – including analytics, split-testing, remote user testing, call listening, customer feedback and lab studies. Your portfolio of outstanding design work must demonstrate this iterative, user centred approach to continuous improvement.

We are investing significantly in our digital portfolio, and you will play a key role in transforming our digital customer journeys. You will join a growing team of talented designers and editors, working in a central London location. This role is a great opportunity to be involved in defining the future of a truly innovative, market-leading product and delivering a great experience for our customers.

What will I be doing?

* Designing new features across customer journeys

* Optimising existing experiences to boost visitor engagement and conversion rate

* Validating designs with actionable data from a range of sources

* Contributing to style guides and design system

* Presenting designs and explaining rationale to senior stakeholders

* Working closely with editors to ensure that content is considered as part of the design process

* Working with developers to deliver best possible customer experience within OS guidelines

What do I need?

Capability, Knowledge and Experience:

* Proven success in designing for the responsive web and ideally apps

* Demonstrable experience of problem definition and facilitating product discovery across multiple disciplines

* Service design experience a plus

* Knowledge of lean approaches, working closely with optimisation specialists and data analysts to drive evidence-based decision making

* Experience in service design methodology is desirable

* Experience of conducting user testing

* Familiar with working in agile/scrum environments

* Comfortable with understanding and using data and customer feedback to guide design decisions

* Experience in a similar UX/UI design role

* Expertise using tools such as Sketch, Zeplin, AxureRP, InVision etc.

* Able to build prototypes to low or high fidelity depending on context

* Happy working at conceptual and detailed levels – adjusting techniques and approaches as necessary

Education and Qualifications:

* University degree desirable

Personal Characteristics:

* Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical colleagues across the business

* Capable of working at speed and under pressure to deliver regular updates to the app and website

* Self-starter that takes the initiative and works well in closely-formed scrum teams

* Reflects and exhibits the AA Brand Values – Courtesy, Care, Expertise, Dynamism and Collaboration

Additional Information

What else is expected of me?

Good conduct matters at the AA. It's very important that you act with honesty & integrity, are respectful of others and have a consistent desire to do the right thing. Everyone at the AA lives these behaviours, so we are all able to support the delivery of good outcomes for our customers