UX/UI Designer

Salary: £26,000 – £26,400 per year

Vitality, UX/UI Designer, Bournemouth, £Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

We’re the UK insurer and investment provider that rewards people for positive lifestyle choices. With 1.25m+ UK members and more than 25m globally, we’re out to make the world a healthier, happier place.

That applies as much to our people as it does to our members. So, as well as a highly competitive pay package, you’ll enjoy: Free places to Vitality sponsored run events, online fitness classes and wellbeing workshops, competitions to win tickets to top-flight sporting events, health checks, and access to our full range of partners and rewards.

It’s what we call offering shared value, because a healthy, happy team is good for us, good for our members, and good for you.

As our UX/UI Designer, you’ll get the benefits our members enjoy, including:

Our award-winning private Vitality Health insurance + wellness incentive programme

Access to The Vitality Programme – Apple Watch, Waitrose and Partners, Garmin, Amazon Prime, Champneys Spa days, Rakuten TV, and half-price gym memberships to name a few!

Personal health fund + Life Assurance

Stakeholder Pension Plan with employer contribution

25 days annual leave + Bank holidays + option to buy and sell 5 more

Flexible benefits package

Internal incentives, competitions, and awards – a chance to win football and sports tickets or even be in with a chance to have a holiday of a lifetime

A genuine opportunity to grow and establish a long-term career

We are looking for an experienced and talented UX/UI Designer to design and shape unique, user-centric products and experiences. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a fast-paced environment and be adept and rapid prototyping and iterations. Working in agile teams, with developers, UX designers and copywriters, you will be able to make deliberate design decisions and translate any given user-experience journey into a smooth and intuitive interaction.

Your role as our UX/UI Designer will involve:

Being a great team player with the capacity to rapidly ideate and iterate on designs and concepts

Collaborating closely with other business areas such as research and product teams

Creating, improving and using wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods

Presenting and defending your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall product roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles

Working closely with the UX team and the Head of Product and Creative Director to ensure brand guidelines and UX principals are adhered too

What we’re looking for in our UX/UI Designer:

Demonstrable experience and a proven track record

A strong portfolio to be presented and defended during interview

Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc

Experience using tools such as Figma, Miro and Sketch

Experience designing responsive websites, iOS apps and Android apps

Experience working with Design Systems

Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3 JavaScript

A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns

Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations for platforms such as desktop and mobile, Android and iOS

Experience of creative ideation, rapid prototyping with a problem-solving mindset

Experience working in an agile/scrum development process

A good grasp and knowledge of Design Systems and be able to work on both App and Web UX/UI

Skill to think on your feet and outside the box, solution-focused, creating refreshing and interesting concepts

Excellent understanding of the latest UX/CX/UI best practices on both App and Web and a very good understanding of market trends, insight and industry standards

Working for Vitality, you’ll experience an exciting mix of creativity and innovation, within a framework of challenging objectives and a passion for delivering the best.

Our people are chosen for their skills, knowledge, enthusiasm, and attitude but above all, their belief that anything can be achieved.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become our UX/UI Designer, then please click ‘apply’ today.

Please note that to ensure the safety of our offices and employees, we require all new hires to be vaccinated for Covid-19.

If your doctor has told you not to be vaccinated, please let us know during the application process so that an accommodation can be made.

You can find more information about our commitment to ensuring office safety to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission by visiting the careers page on our company website.