User Experience Designer

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced User Experience (UX) Designer to join our Global UX team on a remote working basis. This position offers a meaningful opportunity to shape and execute the overall design strategy for our digital products and websites at ULS.

This role will be based remotely in the UK or Spain.

Responsibilities

• Establish and implement the overall design strategy for digital products and websites.
• Define and optimize design processes and tools.
• Lead UX design activities on initiatives from beginning to end for ULS digital products and websites balancing multiple product needs at once.
• Understand and advocate for client and end-user needs.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to help define business and feature requirements, user scenarios, and use cases.
• Create UX and design assets including process flows, site amps, conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and mockups to effectively communicate high-level design strategies and detailed interaction behaviours.
• Present design solutions in ways that communicate the value of design decisions.
• Work closely with product stakeholders to ensure a full understanding of the product team's needs and priorities.
• Provide design leadership to technical teams.
• Mentor and assist other UX Designers.
• Lead weekly team meetings and design reviews.
• Work within project timelines, and deliver design assets to support product roadmap.
• Evangelize user experience and user-centered design throughout the company.
• Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or demonstrated competency in Usability, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology or relevant field.
• 5 years of User Experience design experience or demonstrated competency.
• Expert knowledge of modern design/prototyping tools.
• Demonstrated ability in one more additional areas of user-centered design such as; content strategy, information architecture, or visual design.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in modern research, prototyping, and design tools.
• Expert knowledge of user-centred design methodologies, usability principles, information architecture and interaction design.
• Take ownership of self-development, and stay current with design patterns, best practices, and tools in the field of UX.
• Can coach and mentor others.
  
  

Please note that, due to the Christmas holidays, interviews will be scheduled after January 6th.

What you'll experience working for ULS:

• Mission: For UL, corporate and social responsibility isn’t new. Making the world a safer, more secure and sustainable place has been our business model for the last 125+ years and is deeply ingrained in everything we do.
• People: Ask any UL employee what they love most about working here, and you’ll almost always hear, “the people.” Going beyond what is possible is the standard at UL. We’re able to deliver the best because we employ the best.
• Interesting work: Every day is different for us here as we eagerly anticipate the next innovation that our customers create. We’re inspired to take on the challenge that will transform how people live, work and play. And as a global company, in many roles, you will get international experience working with colleagues around the world.
• Grow & achieve: We learn, work and grow together with targeted development, reward and recognition programs as well as our very own UL University that offers extensive training programs for employees at all stages, including a technical training track for applicable roles.
• Total Rewards: Competitive remuneration, annual bonus, flexible and remote working arrangements, annual paid leave, plus a strong commitment to corporate responsibility and sustainability efforts. All employees receive 2 Volunteer Days off per year to spend participating in an array of volunteer activities
  
  

Working at UL is an exciting journey that twists and turns daily. We thrive in the twists and revel in the turns. This is our every day. This is our normal. Curious? To learn more about us and the work we do, visit UL.com

About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.