About the role
As a midweight UI designer at the UK's second biggest
employer, you'll be crafting experiences that help our diverse colleague and
supplier base work better. You'll work on new opportunities, crafting intuitive
and pixel-perfect solutions that improve every stage of the colleague and
supplier experience. And you'll iterate, test learn and grow as a designer.
We present a varied array of specialisations involving 270
outstanding role types, spread across 84 departments and 10 business divisions.
Collaboration is all important. So, you'll work with a
multidisciplinary team of UX, UI and Service designers, researchers, product
managers, data analysts and engineers.
Our colleagues use a wide range of devices, applications,
and systems to do their jobs. We work across broad aspects of our business,
including distribution, customer fulfilment, transport, office, and stores. Our
current work includes a captivating variety of platforms, technologies,
interfaces and experiences. Our teams are global, with many colleagues working
in the UK, Republic of Ireland, Central Europe and India.
But what ingredients make the perfect candidate?
You consistently display attention to detail and have a real
curiosity for how things work and a true passion for design, with experience
creating user-centred digital interfaces.
You use your knowledge of design-thinking to tackle
sophisticated challenges and drive the solutions you create. And you can
communicate and present your work with confidence to business partners.
Our secret ingredient is our Digital Design System. So,
you'll need good experience using one, whether it's just a pinch to improve a
prototype or a big dollop to shape a whole user journey.
You will be responsible for
* Design
the UI for large and small multi-platform projects, redefining complicated
colleagues' experiences and tasks into simple and intuitive UI solutions.
* Contribute
to end-to-end UI process activities including design discovery, sketching,
prototyping and delivering ready for build design files.
* Collaborate
with various teams, working closely with UX builders, researchers, UX
writers, engineers, product specialists, data experts, and business
collaborators to explore, develop and deliver compositions.
* Champion
human-centred design within and beyond your team.
* Work
within and across Agile squads to design, develop and improve the user
experience across our digital products.
* Partner
with UX researchers and designers to help your team develop empathy for
our users, including those with a disability, and advocate for their
needs, validating designs via A/B testing, un-moderated, usability
testing.
* Work
closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas
and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the
development cycle.
* Partner
with the analytics team to help advise your work.
* Help
facilitate workshops, running effective conceptualisation and
participatory design sessions.
* Promote
and produce design executions that use inclusive design principles and
align with W3C accessibility guidelines.
* Deliver
valuable, high-quality, and consistent work without sacrificing speed by
using our Digital Design System and its standardised foundations,
components and patterns.
* Collaborate
with the design system team to help evolve our Digital Design System based
on user needs.
* Help
other fields understand the value design can bring to a project to build
the best products.
* Continuously
seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain
efficiency, remove obstacles, and simplify workflows.
* Provide
feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a
whole.
* Help
your teammates build expertise, strong decision-making skills, and empathy
for our customers.
* Work
with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive, supportive, and inclusive
team culture.
You will need
* Exceptional
UI design skills, including interaction design.
* A
strong portfolio of delivered design work demonstrating your expertise
across web, responsive and native apps.
* Understanding
of the end-to-end iterative design process including how to develop and
use design research, journey mapping, wire-framing, prototyping, and user
testing to achieve human-centred design solutions.
* Experience
working with design systems.
* A
high level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma.
* A
good knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and
technologies.
* Proficiency
in designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA.
* Passion
for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience.
* Experience
collaborating closely with various fields, including product and
engineering.
* Strong
written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to present to all
levels of seniority and subject area experts within the organisation.
* Proficiency
with current industry design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Miro,
Jira and Confluence or similar.
* Proficiency
in interaction design for web (desktop and mobile) and native
applications.
* Experience
at planning, running or participating in user research, including
interviews, observation and usability testing.
* Ability
to coach, mentor and set standards for ways of working for more junior
team members.
Whats in it for you?
We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.