At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a global UX Development team and oversee front-end software projects.
- Company: Join a leading company in the medical devices sector with a focus on user-centred design.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a collaborative work environment.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with a strong emphasis on Agile practices.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing user experience in innovative medical products.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in UX development and 2+ years managing a team required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
This role will require 4 days per week in the office. The Manager, UX Development role leads my client's UX Development team globally and oversees front-end development activities for their software products, ensuring that they are effective, efficient, satisfying and safe to use. This encompasses building and supporting their Design System via the UI Monorepo and their Component Library (ECL), along with support of other product technologies, to ensure products are consistent and joined up.
Responsibilities:
- Line-manage a team of individual UX Developers, responsible for hiring, performance management, career development, and motivating the team towards excellent performance.
- Understand my client's Products and their contexts, to be able to prioritise the resourcing of their team to the most important products/projects, creating the greatest possible UX/product quality, development efficiency and measurable business impact.
- Develop and maintain a network of stakeholders; in particular, leaders in the Product and Engineering divisions. Understand the needs of these stakeholders, agree with them the scope of work, and ensure they are kept up to date with progress.
- Support the Head of UX&D in evangelising the benefits of User-Centred Design across the business, including collating and communicating a set of compelling case studies where UCD has made a measurable business impact.
- Maintain a good understanding of the other UX&D domains (UX Research, Industrial Design, UX Strategy & Design), to be able to 'sell' the wider team's skills and contributions.
- Mentor and coach colleagues, within and outside the UX&D team, on best practice in UX/UI/Front-end Development.
- Oversee front-end development and support activities on the most important software Products/Product Lines.
- Lead the development of, and act as owner/authority for, Design System and the Component Library (ECL). Evangelise the benefits of the Design System/Component Library across the business and ensure its widest possible adoption. Work closely with members of the UX Strategy & Design team to maintain the Design System.
Experience required:
- Degree in computer science, software engineering, human-computer interaction, or a similar relevant field.
- Comprehensive knowledge base acquired from 8+ years' experience as a (Senior/Lead) UX Developer in a domain of complex products and services.
- 2+ years' experience in managing a UX/Front-end Development team, including all people management responsibilities.
- Significant experience in the development of front-end software and/or business web applications or mobile applications.
- Significant experience in developing and managing a component library or design system for an organization.
- An understanding and experience of working within regulatory constraints, ideally in the field of medical devices.
- A track record of taking responsibility for the delivery of large, complex projects, end-to-end.
- A track record of case studies (personal or from a managed team) where user-centered design and development has had a significant and measurable business impact.
- Good understanding of Agile principles and Agile product development practices (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
- A track record of influential leadership, management of senior stakeholders and driving cross-functional agreement on user-centred design.
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Discipline(s): Medical Devices
Job type: Permanent
UX Development Manager employer: Gold Group
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