UX Designer - Enterprise - Tesco Labs

We’re looking for a resourceful, imaginative and bold Midweight UX Designer to join our team!

As a Midweight UX Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket, you'll be crafting experiences that help millions of people shop better and help our varied colleague and supplier base work better. You’ll help to discover new opportunities, contributing to the intuitive and effortless solutions that improve every stage of both our customer shopping journey and colleague and supplier experience!

Tesco has a proud history of innovation and has dedicated teams to ensure we continue to focus in this area. Tesco Labs is the innovation, research and development team within Tesco Technology. This is a special opportunity to work directly with this team day to day!

The team leads all aspects of a dynamic portfolio of technology innovation products, ranging from near-term opportunities with greater certainty to groundbreaking, exciting innovations.

You’ll get to understand business objectives and user expectations, assisting in crafting design solutions that surpass both. And you’ll become an expert in testing, iterating and improving what you do and how you do it.

Audiences don't get bigger or more diverse than this. We have 11 million active app users and 360,000 colleagues at Tesco globally. So, you’ll really need to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in. You'll need a big appetite for human-centred design, customer research and data and analytics. Collaboration mixed with expertise and insight is the recipe for successful design. So you’ll be working with some of the finest UX and UI designers, researchers, UX writers, service designers, data and analytics experts, product managers and developers.

Our secret ingredient is our digital design system. So, you’ll need some experience using one, whether it's just a pinch to improve a prototype or a big dollop to shape a whole user journey.

Here’s a taste of what you can expect.

You’ll join a business that values your expertise, experience and insight. That nurtures your personal and career growth, with opportunities for every stage of your journey. You'll be a crucial part of a hardworking team consisting of individuals from a diverse set of backgrounds who share your determination and motivation. You'll enjoy a hybrid role that creates the perfect work/life balance, helping you be who you are both professionally and personally. And a benefits package that’s more than competitive.

• 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 

• Design large and small projects from start to finish, redefining complicated experiences into simple and intuitive solutions
• Be involved in all UX process activities including discovery, design sprints, sketching, wire-framing, low-fidelity prototyping, and service/customer mapping.
• Work in partnership with Product Managers to understand and define customer problems and to build testable hypotheses that improve the customer experience
• Champion human-centred design inside and outside of your team.
• Work within and across agile squads to design, develop and improve the customer experience across our digital products.
• Lead UX research activities to help your team develop compassion for our customers, including those with a disability, and advocate for their needs, validating designs via A/B testing, un-moderated, usability testing and more.
• Use quantitative data and partner with the analytics team to help advise your work.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, finding new opportunities for improvements.
• Work together with different teams including UI designers, researchers, engineers, UX writers, service designers, product managers, data analysts, and business collaborators to explore, build, and deliver designs.
• Help facilitate partner (business and user) workshops, run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
• 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 the Design System based on user needs
• Help other fields understand the value design can bring to a project to build the best products.
• Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
• Help your teammates build experience, strong decision-making skills, and empathy for our customers.

• A strong portfolio of delivered design work demonstrating your expertise across web, responsive and native apps.
• Experience in high-profile design projects in a customer-facing commercial environment.
• Passion for solving product problems while balancing all facets of a user experience, including strategy and research, information architecture, interaction design and accessibility.
• A good 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.
• Proficiency with the latest versions of Figma, Sketch, Marvel, Miro, Axure or similar.
• The ability to use both quant and qual insight to inform decision-making.
• Experience at carrying out or participating in customer research, including interviews, observation and usability testing.
• Proficiency in interaction design for web (desktop and mobile) and native applications
• Experience of designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA.
• Experience collaborating closely with multiple fields including product and engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to present skills to all levels of seniority and subject area experts within the organisation.
• The ability to coach, mentor and set standards for ways of working for more junior team members.
• Previous experience in the retail sector is an advantage.