Junior UX Designer in Glasgow

This job is with Capgemini, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

As a Junior User Experience Designer, you will be joining the growing and exciting Digital Excellence community who are continually sharing knowledge and expertise. We are all passionate about user centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing and building digital services and products. You will be part of a supportive UCD community and be paired with a mentor who will invest in your development. You will work together to expand on your skills in this profession. Our User Experience Designers champion inclusive design practices throughout our project lifecycles, ensuring solutions are accessible to as many users as possible. This includes engaging with diverse user research, applying accessibility guidelines and legislation, and advocating for inclusive design principles in your deliverables. Working at Capgemini Invent would give you opportunities to develop and grow, working with major clients in both public and private sector. Our offices are in a variety of locations including London, Manchester and Glasgow. We offer hybrid working; however, depending on your project you may have to travel to client locations.

What You'll Do

• Use different techniques to understand users and their needs, so that you can translate user stories and propose user-focused, evidence-based design approaches.
• Design and prototype user interfaces ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals for some of our public and private sector clients.
• Advocate for accessible and impactful services, ensuring solutions meet accessibility and inclusivity standards.
• Work in a fast-paced, evolving environment and use an iterative method and flexible approach to enable rapid Agile delivery.
• Communicate across organisational and technical boundaries, understanding the context and making complex and technical information simple and accessible for non-technical audiences.

Your profile: You Will Bring The Below Skills And Experience

• A keen interest in the field of User Experience Design and User-Centred Design, keeping up to date with industry developments and conducting self-led learning.
• SC (Security Check) Clearance.
• Experience of working with a wider User Centred Design team.
• An empathetic approach and ability to listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders to interpret them clearly for both audiences.
• Working knowledge of iterative design process and UCD methodologies.
• Competence in using design tools to prototype user interfaces at different levels of fidelity to test and validate designs.
• Ability to build prototypes using code to create dynamic prototypes using HTML, CSS and JavaScript at a basic level.
• We are specifically looking for some experience with GOV.UK Prototyping Kit and Figma.
• Knowledge of Government Digital Service (GDS) service standards and GDS design principles.
• Knowledge of relevant accessibility standards and legislation, such as the Web Content Accessibility Regulations (WCAG).
• Clear and effective communication of design decisions to present concepts to team members and stakeholders.

Ideally, You Would Also Have

• At least 1 year of experience in a User Experience Designer role or working in a design-focused role in a professional setting.
• A design portfolio that showcases the design work you have produced.
• A love of learning – you are eager to take opportunities to develop your skills in parallel with the needs of your clients.
• Experience, understanding or interest in accessibility testing or inclusive design principles.
• Some experience testing and auditing assistive technology (JAWS, Dragon, ZoomText) and accessibility features for Windows and macOS.
• Ability to analyse code for accessibility issues in HTML and CSS.

Need to know:

At Capgemini we don't just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

We're also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we're working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone's access to a digital world. It's something we're really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world's most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a team that does the right thing. Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent on grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.