Senior UI Designer

Company Description

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.
Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Job Description

Senior UI Designer We’re looking for a passionate; skilled; and ambitious Senior UI Designer to join our multidisciplinary team. As a Senior UI Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket; you’ll be be working hand in hand with the Design System and Product Design teams crafting experiences that help millions of people shop better. You’ll discover new opportunities; creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of a customer’s shopping journey. You’ll weigh business goals with user expectations; creating design solutions that exceed both. And you’ll know how to fail fast; get back up; and try again. Audiences don't get bigger or more diverse than this. So you’ll really need to know your onions. That includes a big appetite for innovative interaction design; prototyping and testing; 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 true expertise 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 talented team full of people from all backgrounds that share your drive and ambition. 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. About the role
As a Senior UI Designer at Tesco; you will: - Work hand in hand with the Design System team to bring the design system to life inside all UI projects and help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs
- Deliver valuable; high-quality; and consistent work without sacrificing speed by using our Digital Design System and its standardised foundations; components and patterns.
- Design the UI for large and small multi-platform projects from start to finish; redefining complicated experiences into simple and intuitive UI solutions.
- Own all end-to-end UI process activities including interaction design discovery; identifying trends and critically analysing their viability; sketching; wire-framing; prototyping and delivering ready for build design files.
- Collaborate with different disciplines: You will work closely with UX designers; researchers; UX writers; engineers; product managers; data analysts; and business stakeholders to explore; build and deliver designs.
- 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.
- Partner with UX researchers to help your team develop empathy for our customers; including those with a disability; and advocate for their needs; validating designs via A/B testing; unmoderated; usability testing; etc.
- Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle
- Partner with the analytics team to help inform your work.
- Facilitate workshops; run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
- Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible designs.
- Help other disciplines understand the value design can bring to a project to build the best products.
- Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency; remove obstacles; and simplify workflows.
- Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
- Help your team mates build expertise; strong decision-making skills; and empathy for our customers.
- Embrace opportunities to line manage other designers and help with their learning and development.
- Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive; supportive; and inclusive team culture. About you
The get this role; you will need: - 5+ years UI design experience.
- Demonstrable significant experience designing interfaces using a complex and sophisticated design system for large organisations
- A passion for the latest design; AI and engineering technology and how that might improve your work and Tesco products
- A strong and demonstrable ability to simplify the complex
- The highest level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma; specifically Figma focused on their library features such as variables auto-layout.
- Ability to constructively critique design
- Exceptional UI design skills; including interaction design
- A strong; well-curated portfolio demonstrating your expertise across web; responsive and native app.
- Strong experience in high-profile design projects in a customer-facing commercial environment.
- A good knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and technologies.
- Proficiency in designing with accessibility in mind and meeting WCAG 2.1 level AA.
- A good understanding of the end-to-end iterative design process.
- Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience.
- Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines; including product and engineering.
- Self-motivation; and good organisational and time-management skills.
- 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.
- Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc.
- Previous experience in the retail sector is an advantage.
- Some technical background is a strong plus.

Qualifications

Tesco is seeking a skilled Senior UI Designer to collaborate with the Design System and Product Design teams; crafting user experiences for the UK's largest supermarket. The role involves utilizing the Digital Design System; working on multi-platform projects; and owning the end-to-end UI process. Collaboration with various disciplines; promoting human-centered design; and ensuring accessibility are key responsibilities. The candidate should have 5+ years of UI design experience; proficiency in Figma and other design tools; a strong portfolio; and a passion for innovation. The role emphasizes mentorship; continuous improvement; and fostering an inclusive team culture. Experience in retail and a technical background are advantageous.

Additional Information

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