Job Description Summary

Job Description

UX Designer

Permanent

Location: Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home). The Marketing department is split across various locations in the UK, so travel may be needed on occasion.

Salary: A competitive salary from £32,400 – £48,600 depending on the experience you can bring

Closing date: 30th July 2024

We’re Aegon - a company of ambitious, collaborative, problem-solvers who get things done. We strive to make sure everyone that works for us feel seen, heard, and valued – so we’re looking for like-minded people to join us. We have three behaviours that are central to how we operate as a team and a business: we step up, we tune in and we’re a force for good.

We help people live their best lives. We help them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive in creating a diverse organisation that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion and belonging.

As our UX Designer you will contribute to the user experience (UX) design for Aegon’s digital estate. You’ll play a key role, working in a team of experts, in the creation of experiences for our many kinds of users.

Responsibilities will include crafting journeys from scratch as well as adding pivotal features to existing ones that help change the lives of our customers. We’re looking for someone to join the team who has a strong passion for design and problem solving where you can articulate the importance of this in a commercial and user-centric way.

Key tasks will include but will not be limited to:

• UX Design: The heart of your role which is filled with problem solving using the design thinking process at the core. End to end working on projects from understanding issues, deeper exploration, refining solutions and delivering designs.

• Collaboration: Work well with fellow UX Designers, as well as other UX Team colleagues within UI Design and User Research. Most projects/programmes involve a wide range of stakeholder engagement with colleagues across the business such as engineers, project managers, content representatives to name a few. Close collaboration and relationship building is key in your day to day.

• UX Storytelling: Effectively communicating designs with various stakeholders and team members. Pitching at correct levels, jargon free in some cases.

• Inclusion Design: Designing for all is something we really strive for in our discipline. Accessibility plays a massive part in this and it will be extremely useful being aware/having knowledge of WCAG guidelines and actively prepared to learn more.

We’d love to hear from you if you have the following skills and knowledge:

• Good understanding of design thinking process and being able to conduct plays in each part of the process such as working with research, exploring concepts, wireframing and crafting prototypes.

• Proficient knowledge in current wireframing tools and techniques (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD).

• Basic understanding in aspects of UI Design and a design system – UX Designers at Aegon help our UI colleagues in the development of new components for our design system.

• A good understanding of the UX Research process, methods and techniques.

• Ability to share knowledge with team and influence positive outcomes across all levels, functions and channels.

• Ability to evaluate complex problems and use judgement and data to recommend and deliver innovative & creative solutions.

• Effectively communicate and present complex conceptual thinking visually and verbally.

What’s in it for you?

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%

• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.

• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We support your personal wellbeing with healthcare, dental, holiday trading, cycle to work scheme and gym memberships. We also offer life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave to help our staff live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

We serve a diverse, ever-changing world. It's tough, but we work tirelessly to leave things better than we find them. If that sounds like the sort of place you'd like to work, hit the "Apply" button.

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.