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Job Description

SGK and SGS & Co have built an impressive roster in creative, strategy, digital commerce, experiential marketing, engineering, and creative content production—bringing together the incredible talent of 2,300 agency professionals. This collective expertise will come together under Marks, a Next-Gen Creative Platform built to thrive in today's global and local cultural conversations. Equator will continue to play an important role as an agency within Marks.

We are looking for a Design Director to join the team on a 12 month contract. Partnering with Client Services, this role will own the creative client relationships and quality of design across brands and/or accounts, ensuring we deliver the best against each brief. Using strong judgement and analytical skills to drive better design and deliver beyond the client expectation

Responsibilities:

• Building strong client relationships, acting as their brand custodian. Using understanding of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands to add provocation and richness.
• Leading by example, guiding and inspiring your team to produce exceptional, insightful work that fully explores, challenges and goes beyond the brief. Knowing the power of sketching.
• Approving work before client submission, maintaining our quality of output.
• Acting as the design consultant to your Client Service partners, aligning briefs to the client and brand needs, adding richness and insight to enable design to go deeper, stronger.
• Maximising our resources, managing your team’s workflow to deliver efficiently, adapting the plan when things change in partnership with Resource Management.

Skills/Experience:

• Strong knowledge of strategic, creative and commercial aspect of brands and the
• world they inhabit
• 8-12 years experience within a Brand/Packaging Design agency in Design roles
• Shopper/retail experience
• Understanding of design systems within retail envrionment
• Stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional print / material knowledge
• Cross-team management, ability to identify and leverage skills across the network
• Agility, read the room and adapt
• A degree in Graphic Design, Product Design, Illustration or related fielddobe CC, Office, Sketching

Propelis, is a go-to-market ecosystem that enables marketers to move their brands forward with greater speed, clarity, and confidence. Our broad range of integrated solutions include brand creative, packaging, print solutions, branded environments, and content production. Services are delivered through our family of brands: SGX, Marks, Equator, Collide, and 5Flow. With a combined legacy spanning more than 150 years, Propelis commences operations with 10,000 employees in 30+ countries, nearly $1 billion in annual sales, and a diverse client base of over 2,000 leading companies.

ABOUT US

Brandpie is an exciting and dynamic consultancy with a diverse and highly experienced team located across the UK and North America. We are world leaders in purpose-led transformation. Working with some of the world's largest B2B organisations to help them better understand and define their purpose. Our work with companies impacts the way they appear, communicate, operate and engage with their employees and the wider world. We do this through a unique blend of services across brand, culture and experience.

We pride ourselves in being a company that works in a smart, friendly, and co-operative way that respects everyone’s time and is understanding of that fact that work, however important, is just one part of your life. Our culture aspires to be creative and nurturing, with open, transparent communication. We’re a diverse and strategic bunch, with a mix of doers and thinkers, and we are looking for someone who’s like-minded and pragmatic to help us deliver great work.

THE ROLE

As a Design Director, you will:

• Promote and develop creative thinking and motivate others to come up with new and unique ideas.
• Ensure complex information is delivered and displayed in the most compelling way.
• Lead the team to deliver amazing work, from conceptual ideas, through development, design, and completion.
• Be a partner with the senior team to ensure that the creative solution solves the client / brand need on the project.
• Listen to, mentor, and guide the design team members to learn and grow their skills and knowledge.
• Take ownership of full project delivery, ensuring everyone involved is clear on the objectives, and can subsequently help to create a case study for each project.
• Play an active role in new business, being involved in pitches and meeting with potential new clients.
• Work with the Creative Director to build, manage, and sustain a digital first design team.

Requirements

As a Design Director, you are:

• Experienced: with several years of experience under your belt, you’ve created great work for big international brands, small charities and everything in between. Ideally you will currently be working as a Design Director and have a strong background or leading a design team, however a hungry and driven Senior Designer ready for their first Design Director role will also be considered.
• Keen eye for design: current in the latest trends and standards for graphic design and know the difference between decoration and creative problem-solving.
• Technical: you are a master of the Adobe Creative Suite, with skills/experience in one or more of the following a major plus: Sketch, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Cinema 4D. You have delivered strong concepts and unique ideas across various mediums, with experience in motion and digital design.
• Collaborative: you love to brainstorm and work with others, whether you are 1-1 with the creative director or rolling your sleeves up with the team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of a killer execution.
• Detail oriented: you are able to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter: always curious and excited to learn with one finger to the pulse of the latest trends in brand and design.
• Full of personality: enthusiastic, passionate and positive, always bringing good vibes to the team.
• Clear communicator:  Strong communication skills and an ability to work remotely and independently with the ability to collaborate successfully during this new normal.

YOUR MINDSET

• Clear communicator:  You have strong communication skills and are comfortable communicating and challenging ideas with clients and colleagues.
• Team player:  You love to generate fresh thinking and work with others, whether you are 1-1 or rolling your sleeves up with the broader team, you do your part to contribute to the creation of brilliant ideas and experiences.
• Passionate : You are excited and passionate about developing world-class design experiences and the benefits innovative technologies can offer our clients. Keeping up with the latest trends, new approaches and techniques to enhance our capabilities as a business.
• Detail-oriented:  You are able to manage multiple projects at once while maintaining attention to detail with each project.
• A self-starter:  You’re comfortable working in a small team and taking the initiative to help drive projects forward. Even if this sometimes means you need to do something that’s not always expected from your role.

Benefits

PERKS AND BENEFITS

At Brandpie we believe supporting and helping everyone to grow as a team and an individual. We help do this through our comprehensive and competitive benefits package we offer:

• Generous reward package:  We provide industry competitive salaries that reflect experience and ability. We also offer additional benefits including medical and life insurance, gym membership contributions and a company pension scheme.
• A competitive holiday package:  You will start with 23 days annual leave, which increases by 1 day per year to a maximum of 28 days. Our business usually closes between Christmas and New Year, providing an additional 3 days leave.
• Wellbeing support:  We believe it’s vital people have time to focus on their wellbeing (both physical and mental). From day one you will be provided with a comprehensive core and mental health cover (currently with Vitality Health), subsidized gym membership, partner rewards and discounts, including 12 months free subscription to Headspace and Employee Assistance Programme though WeCare.
• Flexi-time and place: We now operate a fully flexible model. We do not insist that our people are office based and respect everyone’s individual preference. We encourage flexible work patterns and want our people to find a fair work/life balance they are comfortable with.
• Solid technology kit:  On joining you will receive new IT equipment including a laptop (Mac only), peripherals, and an external monitor for your home set-up.
• Personal development: We want you to learn and grow with us. To make sure our people are up to date with our latest work, we do regular Knowledge Share sessions, and we will work with you to create a personal career development plan. We make a commitment that every member of staff has at least 1 day a month dedicated to PD.

Our dedication to embracing diversity

Brandpie is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, reward and promote regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Jones Knowles Ritchie is a branding business, founded in 1990 and proudly independent ever since.

We started out in the world of packaging, but now we’re worldwide—from three founders, to more than 300 of us across the UK and USA. Together, we build and deliver brands across the entire consumer experience.

But even more important than what we do, is why we do it. We’re here to inspire brands and people to be their true selves. To be brave. Be tenacious. And above all, be yourself. Because we believe that’s the only way to truly be distinctive, everywhere.

We are seeking a Design Director on a fixed term contract (FTC) to guide and elevate our creative vision. Reporting directly to the Creative Director, you will oversee the creative direction of branding initiatives, particularly in the Consumer Packaging (CPG) sector.

The Design Director plays a pivotal leadership role within our Design team, driving quality and strategically led creative solutions. You will inspire your team and offer growth opportunities, enabling them to excel in their roles while consistently innovating for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Champion the sharing of creative work and inspiration both internally and externally 
• Identify and develop skills within the team through training and mentorship 
• Lead client-facing presentations with excellence in communication
• Deliver impactful pitches and strategies that influence client outcomes
• Provide constructive feedback on design work and guide projects towards creative excellence 
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal results for clients

Experience 

• Substantial experience in a leading branding, design, or creative agency
• Significant exposure to Global CPG projects with proven leadership
• Ability to construct brand ideas across various consumer touchpoints
• Experience managing design teams and fostering a collaborative environment
• Fluent in senior-level presentations and client engagement
• A passionate advocate for outstanding design and attention to detail
• Proven ability to extract world-class conceptual design from team members

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite
• Exceptional communication skills
• Experience leading a team of designers

At JKR, our goal is to create an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace that reflects and creates for the societies we live in. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a long-term business imperative and a commitment at JKR, not an initiative that sits under one department. As a leader in our business, you will demonstrate being a DE+I advocate and champion with your actions in how you build, run, and grow your team(s)

Benefits

This role will be offered as a Fixed term contract from January 2026, for 6, possibly 12 months, you will be eligible for JKR benefits including:

• Pension Plan
• Training & Development
• Paid holiday
• Health insurance
• Location: Shoreditch studio
• Hybrid working: min 2 days pw in the studio (or as required by the team)

Job Description

Marks is a consumer experience agency creating engaging moments across the entire brand spectrum – from brand design and packaging to content and consumer connections. Rooted in a deep understanding of human behaviour, we are uniquely constructed to enable brands to win in an age of constant change.

A super-charged experience powerhouse - 900 people strong, with subject matter experts working collaboratively across 12 studios and 8 countries - we have helped some of the world’s biggest brands to their audiences and tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities of today’s consumer landscape.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Design Director (Adaptive) on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract basis. This is a hybrid working role based in our London, UK Studio

As our Adaptive Packaging Designer, you’ll be responsible for developing packaging systems that seamlessly adapt across product lines, formats, and markets globally. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teamsto deliver packaging that are not only beautiful, but also functional.

You will of course be grounded in brand pack design, both creatively and in its expansion and translation across wide reaching portfolios, with strong print and technical knowledge to back this up in execution.

As well as thinking conceptually, you’ll be structured in your approach; critical to this role is inherent adaptability and pragmatism as well as strong organisational skills. Working across multiple creative projects in a fast-paced studio environment you will need to prioritise and manage your time effectively and assist driving the creative team through projects, keeping them on track in output and creative quality throughout.

What you’ll do

You’ll lead the team on multiple projects from brief through design, adaptation and roll out and production across a wide variety of packaging design projects

You will report directly to the Creative Director and you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day quality of outputs from, and nurturing of the design team.

You’ll be providing inspirational directions to the more junior members of the team, mentoring and sharing your knowledge and skills

You’ll be able to work efficiently, balancing tight deadlines and frequently shifting priorities

Foster a respectful, open and inspiring work environment within the studio, including a genuine and positive attitude

What you’ll need

• Solid experience in branding, packaging design with focus on adaptation and roll out, digital understanding is a plus
• Strong understanding or artwork, print and production process
• A portfolio that represents a diverse range of industry expertise, showing systems thinking in the world of FMCG
• The ability to be the brand guardian, ensuring it’s development and executional consistency and recognising when to creatively challenge and stretch it as the opportunity arises
• The ability to change perspectives: a keen eye for detail but being able to shift to ‘helicopter view’ when needed
• Ability to manage clients and projects independently, in association with the Creative Director and the members of the client services and strategy teams.
• Thorough understanding of print production processes and the implications of design proposals
• Excellent presentation skills, articulating ideas with conviction in client facing situations
• The ability to manage teams and support them in driving creative quality and technical execution excellence
• A passion for visual culture, creativity, innovation and tech, beyond the world of graphic design
• A expert working knowledge of the usual Adobe software (InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator)

What we'll offer

When working for Marks you will enjoy an excellent base salary, along with an outstanding suite benefits including :

• 25 days holiday per annum + additional 'Me Day'
• Flexible working during summer hours
• Pension Scheme
• Voluntary SGS Europe Group Healthcare Scheme
• Life Assurance
• Healthcare Digital GP Service
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme
• City Bike Scheme (London only)
• Employee referral program

User Experience Consultant (Infrastructure & End User Computing) – 6-Month Contract – Hybrid (London)

VIQU IT are partnering with a global organisation embarking on a large-scale digital transformation. The transformation includes major infrastructure modernisation, a shift to cloud services, and the implementation of a new IT Service Management (ITSM) platform – ServiceNow.

We’re seeking a User Experience Consultant to help shape and refine the employee technology experience across End User Computing (EUC) and IT service environments.

This role focuses on internal IT user journeys, not customer-facing web design. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring new technologies and processes deliver a frictionless, efficient, and engaging experience for employees across the business.

For this role we require proven experience of how you have maintained a companies infrastructure, and observing the impacts of change to a business and communicating that through to IT Teams and creating strategies on how the customer can make this work for all aspects/environments. 

User Experience Consultant’s Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and enhance end-to-end employee technology experiences across IT touchpoints.
• Map and redesign EUC journeys to improve usability, consistency, and satisfaction.
• Lead UX input for the ServiceNow rollout and Windows 10–11 transition.
• Contribute to the UX strategy supporting cloud and infrastructure transformation.
• Collaborate with IT, project, and change teams to embed user-centred principles.
• Support adoption and change initiatives, producing clear user guidance and insights.
• Develop and maintain UX frameworks and standards for internal IT services.

User Experience Consultant’s Experience & Skills Required:

• Proven experience applying UX methods in ITSM, EUC, or infrastructure programmes.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar IT service platforms.
• Exposure to Windows 10–11 migration and cloud migration projects.
• Strong understanding of M365 environments (Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Office apps).
• Strategic, systems-level thinker with hands-on UX delivery experience.
• Comfortable collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Contract Details

• Duration: 6 months (Inside IR35)
• Location: London (Hybrid working)

How to Apply

Apply now to the User Experience Consultant role to speak with VIQU IT in confidence or contact Phoebe Thompson via the VIQU IT website.

Refer a friend and earn up to £1,000 if they’re successfully placed (terms apply).

Follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment for more opportunities.

User Experience Consultant (Infrastructure & End User Computing) – 6-Month Contract – Hybrid (London)

VIQU IT are partnering with a global organisation embarking on a large-scale digital transformation. The transformation includes major infrastructure modernisation, a shift to cloud services, and the implementation of a new IT Service Management (ITSM) platform – ServiceNow.

We’re seeking a User Experience Consultant to help shape and refine the employee technology experience across End User Computing (EUC) and IT service environments.

This role focuses on internal IT user journeys, not customer-facing web design. You’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring new technologies and processes deliver a frictionless, efficient, and engaging experience for employees across the business.

For this role we require proven experience of how you have maintained a companies infrastructure, and observing the impacts of change to a business and communicating that through to IT Teams and creating strategies on how the customer can make this work for all aspects/environments. 

User Experience Consultant’s Key Responsibilities:

• Evaluate and enhance end-to-end employee technology experiences across IT touchpoints.
• Map and redesign EUC journeys to improve usability, consistency, and satisfaction.
• Lead UX input for the ServiceNow rollout and Windows 10–11 transition.
• Contribute to the UX strategy supporting cloud and infrastructure transformation.
• Collaborate with IT, project, and change teams to embed user-centred principles.
• Support adoption and change initiatives, producing clear user guidance and insights.
• Develop and maintain UX frameworks and standards for internal IT services.

User Experience Consultant’s Experience & Skills Required:

• Proven experience applying UX methods in ITSM, EUC, or infrastructure programmes.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar IT service platforms.
• Exposure to Windows 10–11 migration and cloud migration projects.
• Strong understanding of M365 environments (Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Office apps).
• Strategic, systems-level thinker with hands-on UX delivery experience.
• Comfortable collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Contract Details

• Duration: 6 months (Inside IR35)
• Location: London (Hybrid working)

How to Apply

Apply now to the User Experience Consultant role to speak with VIQU IT in confidence or contact Phoebe Thompson via the VIQU IT website.

Refer a friend and earn up to £1,000 if they’re successfully placed (terms apply).

Follow us on LinkedIn @VIQU IT Recruitment for more opportunities.

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**Responsibilities and Impact:**
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Job Description

We’re the team behind your favourite digital products, and the platforms that power them. We make every moment magical, everywhere. Our team is made up of self-motivated, big thinkers who have a knack for solving problems and find new ways to captivate millions of customers by putting them at the heart of everything we do. Our design focus ranges from websites and mobile apps to entertainment platforms and connectivity devices. We put the user of tomorrow at the centre of everything we do, and we can’t wait to get started on what’s next.

Summary

We are looking for an outstanding UX Lead who thrives on solving complex challenges and is energised by creating products that make life simply better.

You’ll be part of an agile team, leading workshops or interviews with our senior clients to help them understand their businesses and customers more deeply and to drive innovation.

At WONGDOODY Europe, our approach to UX is lean and user-centered. We workshop ideas and solutions with clients and internal teams and sketch out ideas.

We have a fast-paced, prototype-driven workshop approach called ‘Conversation to Creation’ (C2C) in which you’d play a key role. We run these workshops with startup founders and clients to kick-off new, transformational products and distil in weeks what others would take months for.

We don’t stop at concepts and prototypes, we deliver real products to customers and iterate upon them. As a UX Director, you play a key role throughout this process.

We embrace change and exploration; everyone at WONGDOODY is committed to creating the best possible product.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee a key project within the studio and ensure quality of work as well as supporting the team and establish ways of working that enable the best work for Wongdoody and our clients.
• Liaising with senior clients and stakeholders, taking briefs, challenging them when required to add value to client’s business and customer’s experiences
• Inspire the wider team at Wongdoody with your passion for the craft and knowledge in the industry.
• Create world-class products and experiences that make people’s lives simply better.
• Gather business requirements, market research, and user needs, and distil them into actionable insights. Derive hypotheses, communicate them effectively, and test them.
• Lead your team and the client on a journey of product creation based on these insights.
• Design and communicate effectively through diagrams, sketches, designs, and prototypes.
• Work with WONGDOODY Europe’s leadership to help achieve the company’s goals, to improve our ways-of-working and engagements with clients.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research using a variety of methods, incl. managing a third-party.
• Lead interdisciplinary teams of 2 to 5 people from initial sketches and prototypes through final design.
• Inspire and motive an energetic and collaborative team and let them inspire you.
• Experience managing and mentoring designers, and supporting their growth.
• Drive yourself and your team to create the best, well-crafted product.
• Work with the development and QA teams to ensure the product is understood and be part of the creation of the product throughout the process.
• Pitch work to clients and partners, facilitate workshops with c-suite clients.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of experience working at leading digital teams.
• Portfolio of complex, digital experiences for global brands across mobile, tablet, and web channels, such as large CMS sites, e-commerce, apps, etc. Highlight your contribution to each project, and what makes the solution you devised innovation and smart.
• Experience in the public sector and employee experiences is a plus
• The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just 'how it should look' but 'what we should build')
• Have a bias for action in a fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous environment.
• Excellent communication skills: being able to explain design rationale, to align and persuade stakeholders, and to drive conversations.
• A solid understanding of all the other disciplines needed to create a brilliant product, such as business, technology, delivery, marketing, and content.
• Proficiency in Figma, PPT, Keynote, Sketch, Invision.
• Experience creating a digital strategy and content strategy, and with the design and execution of user testing and research studies.
• A sense of humour!

• THE PERKS

  We’ll pay you to come work here, because we’re generous like that. On top of your salary, you’ll receive a whole lotta benefits to help keep you healthy, secure, and balanced. You’ll get great medical, and dental insurance, a competitive pension package, travel insurance, and flexible summer hours to name a few.

  
  

  ABOUT US

  We are WongDoody. 2000 innovators, creators and designers in 22 studios across the world.

  We create human experiences. Tell big stories for bold clients. Use design to save lives. For the past 30 years, WongDoody has been recognised as one of the most creative and innovative companies by Cannes Lions, Fast Company and EY, among others.

  
  

  Since our founding, we have won hundreds of global awards for advertising, branding, experience design and strategy, while building a culture that consistently makes WongDoody one of the “Best Places to Work”. We recognise that our people and our values are paramount to our success. Now an Infosys company, our culture remains the same—open, inclusive and curious—rooted in Creative Democracy formed by our founders, Tracy Wong and Patrick Doody.

  We're just getting started.

  
  

  See how we're making an impact:

  WongDoody is a proud Equal Employment Opportunity employer where we are committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workspace regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We are intentional about creating a space that celebrates, embraces, and also reflects the diversity of the world we live in. Candidates from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

  
  

  All candidate information is kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Job Description

Role: UX Designer

Role Location: London

Salary: Competitive (based on experience)

Level: CL9 – Consultant

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC security clearance which requires 5 years continuous UK address history (typically including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK) and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application. Note: The above information relates to a specific client requirement

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

At Accenture we design new services that make a lasting impact by improving users' lives, making our country safer and enabling business to evolve. We are expanding the Experience Design team to deliver new digital products and experiences for users of both public and private sector clients. The Accenture Experience Design practice comprises 5 design disciplines, being User Research, Service Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems and Design Thinking.

In this newly created multi-disciplinary role, we are seeking a Senior Experience designer to join our Experience Design practice supporting both existing and new client engagements, who is a user centred designer to perform user research, transform the business process into user journeys through service design, and an experienced interaction designer who understands design systems, while designing new services that demonstrate how user needs and business requirements are met.

As a Experience Designer:

You are strong in Service and Interaction design, with experience with performing User Research. You will deliver service blueprints, user journeys, flows, lo-fi & hi-fi prototypes, interface design, component designs, design specifications, presentations and design pitches. For this role you are:

• An intellectually curious, creative problem solver focused on design methodology and passionate about inclusive, accessible services for a diverse user population.
• Developing a deep understanding of user needs and be a champion of the benefits of being user centred, inclusive design and accessibility.
• Performing discoveries and are comfortable with planning, scoping, conducting, analysing and communicating findings that ground design decisions against user needs.
• You enjoy collaborative work in a dynamic and creative environment. You are comfortable working with the different technical experts being part of a multidisciplinary team, guiding software engineers as they build your designs.
• A strong desire to co-create with users and relish participation of stakeholders and the wider team and have experience leading workshops and broader inclusive design initiatives.
• You are great with stakeholders and are an engaging communicator, able to speak fluently to business people, designers, engineers and other stakeholders.
• You are comfortable working in all fidelity of design, from initial concepts to final design specifications, from the initial discovery phase through to working with developers to produce the final solution.
• You are UX savvy, able to craft and translate user needs into journeys and show evidence how the solutions meet the required needs with measurable value. You are comfortable working with the team reshaping user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
• Your design process takes a holistic approach, identifying patterns and workflows by considering the larger system.
• You understand graphic design and are versed in typography, application of colour theory, consistent use of branding and information hierarchy.
• You are also technology savvy and have a good understanding of how digital services are designed, developed and operated.
• You understand agile and lean practice. You are keen to be part of the team in analysis and synthesis to increase consensus and challenge assumptions.
• You’ll collaborate with UX researchers while also conducting your own research and evaluations to test and improve designs.

Experience

• Experience with the design and development lifecycle, from the initial discovery phase through to working with developers to produce the final solution.
• You have Service Design/ UX experience including user journeys, flows, lo-fi & hi-fi designs and prototype experiences for user testing.
• You have experience producing component-based UI or contributed to a design system and can talk to brand values and how best to serve the needs for mobile, tablet and desktop UI, with experience designing products that meet accessibility standards.
• You have a minimum of 4 years’ experience in a design role at a consumer-focused company, or government body, and a degree in Design, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• You have a portfolio that showcases your design process and thinking.
• Experience working within the GDS framework and service standards is a benefit.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 27th February 2025

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.