Head of User Experience - London

Deadine: 10 March 2010
Head of User Experience (Tower Hill, London E1)

Webcredible is looking for a smart cookie to be our new head of UX. In this senior role you'll have overall responsibility for our UX and UCD offering, including managing a team of consultants and supporting our client development work.

ABOUT THE JOB
Reporting directly to a company director, as head of UX you'll be an authority with first class leadership and influencing skills. You'll work closely with internal teams, prospective clients and existing accounts.

Specific responsibilities include:
* Overseeing all our UX client projects, from user research to interaction design
* Taking part in some business development activities, especially with existing clients
* Showing full-cycle leadership to the UX team by leading, mentoring and where necessary supporting UX consultants on complex user research and interaction design projects
* Line-managing a team of 7 senior consultants and user experience consultants
* Taking ownership over the company's UX roadmap and driving innovation within the company to ensure we produce outstanding work
* As a member of the senior management team, participating in management meetings and work closely with other senior members of the company
* Running and helping to develop our public UX training courses
* Acting as an industry commentator, giving presentations and writing thought-leading articles to further enhance our reputation

ABOUT YOU
Although you won't be doing hands-on project work, it's essential that you have strong, full-cycle UCD skills covering all aspects of UX research, design and consultancy. You'll need to have exceptional communication skills, to include people management, leadership, presentation and influencing skills.

You'll need to have experience of:
* Working in a user experience consultancy or digital agency as a head of department or senior user experience practitioner
* Being involved with new business activities as the UX representative, giving presentations and scoping /writing proposals
* Managing UX practitioners
* Delivering full-cycle UCD projects (you'll need lots of experience of this!)
* Defining and managing the scope of projects, including budgeting

You should also have a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction or a similar subject, although you likely would have gained this a while ago.

ABOUT WORKING AT WEBCREDIBLE
Here at Webcredible we're only as good as our people. Everyone is given total ownership of their job and is managed on the results they achieve, not the methods they use to get there. You'll have full control over your job and career progression path - it's up to you to decide the direction you want to go in and we'll do whatever it takes to accommodate your needs and make this happen.

BENEFITS
In addition to being rewarded with a competitive salary and excellent career advancement opportunities, you'll benefit from a number of perks:
* Flexible benefits package (you choose the benefits most important to you)
* Company pension scheme
* Flexitime (work to the hours that best suit you)
* 23 days holiday as well as a free day off on your birthday (plus option to buy more holiday)
* Commission on any leads generated
* 3-day personal training /conference budget per year
* Travel loan
* Free book purchase every month
* Free team lunch and evening social event every month
* Free fruit and fresh coffee every day (the most important of all!)

Sounds like you? Sound like the kind of job you could do? Send over your CV and covering email to uxjobs@webcredible.co.uk and you could be working here sooner than you think!

Please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK thanks.