UX Designer We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.   Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.   What does Access offer you?  We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.  On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.     About you:  We are looking for a skilled UX designer, possessing a deep understanding of user needs and the skills and experience to build beautiful and effective user experiences. Your expertise in design thinking and user research allows you to uncover insights that inform your design decisions. You’re passionate about the craft of UX and consistently seeking to hone your skills, staying up to date with the latest industry trends and best practices. Day-to-day, you will:  •Follow the UX process and highlighting challenges within sprint team processes, suggesting areas of improvement to team leaders. Recruit and screen participants, scheduling sessions, and preparing research materials. Using and contributing to established participant lists. •Plan and conducting research to understand users' needs, motivations, and pain points, generating actionable insights for design decisions and improvements. Design interactions, creating visual designs, and prototyping flows and interactions across various platforms and devices. •Evaluate and validate designs through user testing as a standard practice across all projects, ensuring problems can be identified early, reducing the risk of usability issues and future development debt. •Contribute to the development of divisional tools such as personas, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) and journey maps etc. Your skills and experiences might also include:   •Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to contribute insights from a UX perspective. Facilitate internal and external workshops. •Communicate design decisions and present research findings to stakeholders in an engaging way using techniques such as storytelling. Take the initiative to suggest improvements and ideas within their sprint team. •Participate in the UX community to foster a collaborative and supportive work environment. •Contribute to our design systems and DesignOps initiatives. What are we all about?  The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.   At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.