User Experience Consultant - London to New York
Do you want to learn user experience design from the best in the industry, with a view to
opening a new international office in a couple of years’ time? This is an entry-level
opportunity to join UX Connections as a user experience consultant and take the first
steps to becoming a digital leader.
UX Consultant, London, UK – New York, NY, USA. Full-Time.
This salaried position is available immediately for the right candidate - it will be based in London initially but the
successful applicant will relocate to New York after learning the UX Connections way for 2-3 years working in London.
We’re looking for a curious, dedicated and inventive researcher and designer to join our creative team. You’ll be joining
‘on the ground floor’ of our young company and will be pivotal to its future success. Please send your CV with a short
covering letter describing briefly why you’re interested in this challenge, to [email protected] with the
subject line “UX Consultant London to New York”
Background
UX Connections is a digital design consultancy founded in March 2013 and is the project of Chris Sainsbury, a UX
Consultant and Professor at New York University who has worked in London and New York over the past 20 years. We
conduct research in to the way people use digital products (apps and websites) and design beautiful solutions that
work for them.
The role
The role of user experience consultant is split in to two areas – research and design. Your responsibilities will include:
- Researching the end-users of a digital product through a mixture of primary and secondary research
- Creation of research deliverables such as heuristic evaluations, competitor reviews and personas
- Deriving insight from this research and translating it in to design opportunities, interface considerations and
new ideas for content and features
- Working within specialised client teams on-site at their offices, collaborating with complementary roles such as
project manager, product owner, visual and graphic designer, and business analyst, as well as developers
- Creating specification documents such as wireframes, user journeys, feature maps and interactive prototypes
and communicating these to stakeholders using techniques such as presentations and workshops
- Being a core member of our team, and adding value every day
This role has an additional dimension of expecting the successful applicant to be trained up to lead and set up an
international office once they have completed their training and gained experience delivering client work in London.
- Relocating to New York in 2-3 years to set up the UX Connections office, including admin tasks such as
establishing legal and professional licences and ways of working
- Receiving a visa sponsored by the company for relocation to the new office location. Upon successful receipt of
the international visa the successful applicant will be expected to sign on for another 2 years with the company,
otherwise be expected to repay their visa costs (100% in the first year, 50% in the second year)
- Progressing to an office lead role in the new location, interviewing and hiring new staff, winning work, ensuring
profitability and becoming a leader, reporting in to the London HQ
About you
You’ll be an enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, and hard working personality – someone who wants to do the best work, be
innovative and inspired all at the same time. Fundamentally, you’re a designer who looks at the world (and particularly
digital products) with a questioning eye and wonders why they were made the way they were, and for what audiences.
You may have just finished a psychology, design or computer science degree, and ideally will have a basic knowledge
of HTML, CSS, Figma, Dovetail, and other technologies.
