UX Designer in Fareham

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.

Raymarine is a major supplier of electronic navigation and other equipment for marine use. The company principally targets the recreational market, but also serves first responder and light commercial markets. The middleweight UX Designer works within a team of designers based on the south coast of England, solving complex UX challenges and creating beautiful, distinctive, and simple interfaces. The team designs products and services across a range of platforms - from embedded interfaces in our dedicated hardware (navigation displays, VHF radios, autopilots, remote controls etc), to mobile applications, and web services. We design interfaces in areas as diverse as navigation apps, thermal cameras, audio control, cartography, sonar, radar, and coastguard/lifesaving. Each of our products present unique and interesting user interface design challenges. We sit in an increasingly competitive sector, but one in which user experience plays a key differentiating role. Our products are used worldwide, helping hundreds of thousands of boaters enjoy their time on the water with safety and confidence, using the latest technology.

The role demands someone with strong UX design experience, comfortable working on a number of projects simultaneously, providing creative input while working in agile teams alongside developers, designers, and product managers. They have up‑to‑date awareness of design trends, latest processes and tools and can bring fresh perspectives and new insights to the team. They understand technical constraints such as display resolutions, different input modalities (hardkeys/touchscreen/trackball/mouse/voice), processing constraints, and also design for UX standards, screen legibility, information architecture, graphics and more. They are able to plan design projects, estimate timing, identify unknowns/potential risks, and work with third parties including customers/partners/internal and external stakeholders. Prior experience of boating is desirable but not essential, but building domain knowledge through first‑hand experience and interacting with users, dealers, and installers is a core part of the role.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with project stakeholders to gather requirements and drive embedded, web, and mobile UX projects from concept to delivery.
• Conduct a user‑centered design process including the research, user journeys, sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Create (or source) graphic designs and assets.
• Engage with end‑users to understand their needs, aspirations, mental models, and gather in‑depth insights.
• Maintain awareness of competitive offerings, industry trends, new technologies and similar market segments. Identify opportunities for differentiation and competitive advantage.
• Provide support to developers to ensure design intent is correctly implemented; to test team to ensure intent is validated; to sales and marketing to ensure benefits are communicated.
• Constantly push for a user‑centric approach.
• Stay up‑to‑date with industry trends and best practices, and apply them to enhance our design processes and deliverables.
• Advocate for the user and ensure that their needs are at the forefront of all design decisions.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience of user‑centered design process and a strong folio of successful user interface design implementation.
• Proficiency in UX software (eg Figma) and graphic tools (eg Illustrator/photoshop). Proficiency in OA tools.
• Ability to think critically and solve complex design problems.
• Experience working with development teams following agile process.
• Excellent verbal, written and graphic communication skills. Creativity.
• Flair for visual design.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Experience with user research and usability testing.
• Ability to negotiate with product managers and developers to achieve best outcome, and where necessary compromise/rework designs.

Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.