As a UI designer at UK’s second biggest employer, with 336,000 global employees, you’ll be shaping experiences that help our wide and diverse colleague and supplier base to work better. You’ll discover new opportunities, crafting intuitive and effortless solutions that improve every stage of a colleague and supplier experience.

We have a wide range of roles as specialisms in Tesco, our remit covers 270 different role types, across 84 departments and 10 business divisions.

Our current work touches on a wide variety of the employee experience, including:

• Lifecycle of a product from development to ranging in stores
• Stock, service, and security operations within our stores
• Colleague lifecycle, capability, and development
• Internal communications and colleague networks

Our colleagues work across a wide range of devices, applications, and systems to do their jobs. We work across broad aspects of our business, including distribution, office, and stores. Our teams are global with many colleagues working in different geographies (United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, India, Central Europe).

Responsibilities

• Design the UI for large and small multi-platform projects, redefining complicated experiences into simple and intuitive UI solutions.
• Contribute to end-to-end UI process activities including interaction design discovery, sketching, wire-framing, prototyping, and delivering ready for build design files.
• Collaborate with different teams, working closely with UX designers, researchers, UX writers, engineers, in store colleagues, product managers, data analysts, and business partners to explore, build and deliver designs.
• Take part in in-store research, getting in touch with relevant colleagues, and occasionally shadowing colleagues in store as they carry out their tasks, to build an understanding of what needs to be done for each given project
• Champion human-centered design inside and outside of your team.
• Develop a high-level understanding of general responsibilities for various in store colleagues and learn to understand the different challenges faced in different sized store formats.
• Work within and across agile squads to design, develop and improve the colleague experience across our digital products.
• Partner with UX designers and researchers to help your team develop empathy for our colleagues, including those with a disability, and advocate for their needs, validating designs via A/B testing, unmoderated, usability testing.
• 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.
• Help facilitate workshops, running effective conceptualization and participatory design sessions.
• Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible designs.
• Deliver valuable, high-quality, and consistent work without sacrificing speed by using our Digital Design System and its standardized foundations, components, and patterns.
• Collaborate with the design system team to help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs.
• Help other teams 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 teammates build expertise, strong decision-making skills, and empathy for our colleagues.
• Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive, supportive, and inclusive team culture.

Qualifications

You will need

• Exceptional UI design skills, including interaction design.
• An engaging and 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 high level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma.
• 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 teams, including product and engineering.
• Self-motivation, and good organizational 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 organization.
• An ability to empathize with in-store colleagues, and their duties, through user testing sessions, shadowing, or interviews
• Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc.
• Previous experience in the retail sector is an advantage.