UX Designer

About us

At Aptitude we love complexity.

We immerse ourselves in the intricacies of finance digitization, subscription management, compliance, and revenue management which gives us the power to make a real impact. Once we understand how an organization works, we can implement software solutions that provide the clarity, confidence, and control they need to drive growth and achieve their ambitions.

Aptitude has served the offices of finance for over 20 years, delivering financial control and insights to empower our clients to achieve their strategies and ambitions. We are currently serving over 75 CFOs whose organisations generate a combined revenue of over $1 Trillion.

We are proud of our growing team of smart, motivated and passionate people, and believe diverse experiences and perspectives build stronger teams and better solutions.

Headquartered in London, we have seven office locations around the world with clients across four continents.

What you'll do and what we offer

Your responsibilities will include:

• You are responsible for designing and optimising the experience of our financial applications. As a champion for UX, you educate fellow colleagues about the design process and our initiatives, helping to grow the prominence and importance of user centered design across the business. You promote and encourage an open, transparent culture of continual learning
• You actively contribute to the research repository with qualitative and quantitative data to form a comprehensive understanding of our users. You use these insights to frame your design approach
• Working closely with the UI team, you support the evolution and implementation of a Design System, ensuring all design patterns are usable and useful in the wider context of the product portfolio

We’ll provide you with the opportunity to grow your expertise in an environment that supports you, your life and your career.

We’ll also offer you a competitive salary plus profit-related bonus scheme, as well as the following benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life and disability insurance
• ShareSave scheme – ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms
• English language lessons during working hours
• Flexible working conditions and hybrid work model for Wroclaw based and telework for other cities

What we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have the following skills & experience:

• ~3 years’ experience designing accessible, inclusive and cohesive user interfaces
• Proven experience of user centered design principles and methodologies, with an ability produce UX artefacts such as personas, user journeys, storyboards, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, concepts, etc
• Ability to communicate the intent of design ideas and prototypes with Developers, Product Owners, Testers and the wider product team
• Experience designing intuitive ways to navigate and convey complex information and data
• Experience designing responsive applications
• Experience designing for accessibility
• Proficient understanding of tools and applications such as Figma
• Experience running workshops to generate a variety of design ideas
• Experience conducting various types of research to uncover insight, identify customer needs, test new concepts and justify design decisions
• You can create research artefacts that communicate your findings as actionable problem statements and testable hypotheses
• An understanding of how to plan, conduct and analyse usability tests

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How to apply

Please click on the ‘Apply now’ button below, including your CV/resume and any other relevant information that will help us get to know you better.

Diversity and Inclusion

If you’re interested in working at Aptitude, but don’t feel you meet every single requirement of the role, we’d still like to hear from you!  A diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture, and we’re dedicated to ensuring that our staff can show up as their authentic self – safe in the knowledge that their differences will be embraced and respected by all. We’re strong advocates of supporting applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds which include different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities and sexual orientation, and we work hard to build the confidence of our workforce through inclusivity, equity and ongoing training. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the candidate we’ve been looking for, whether it’s for this role or another.