Role: UX Lead – Mobile App
Shift Pattern: Full Time
Contract: 12M FTC
Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of user‑centric mobile app experiences.
- Directly manage a team of Product Designers, with a meaningful commitment to their development and day‑to‑day performance.
- Provide hands‑on coaching, design direction, and honest feedback that helps each designer grow and deliver their best work.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to drive innovative solutions.
- Utilise your expertise to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
- Hold accountability for the quality and effectiveness of all UX artefacts produced within the App domain during the agile development cycle.
- Ensure design decisions balance user needs, business goals, technical feasibility, and accessibility compliance.
- Maintain awareness of how the App experience interacts with adjacent product areas, ensuring a holistic and coherent user journey.
- Work within and contribute to the evolution of shared UCD process, design system, and brand guideline.
- Partner with the Product Lead to contribute to the app product vision and UX backlog, grounding recommendations in user insight and data.
- Continuously identify experience improvement opportunities and help define the longer‑term UX direction for the domain.
Qualifications
- Hands‑on experience designing native mobile apps for iOS and/or Android.
- Experience bringing an autonomous, established team into alignment with wider organisational design standards or governance frameworks.
- Familiarity with agile and lean UX methodologies within a large, cross‑functional product organisation.
- Deeper specialism in one UX discipline—such as product design, user research, content design, or accessibility—alongside breadth across others.
- Experience in retail, e‑commerce, or consumer‑facing digital products.
Benefits
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan.
- Generous employee discounts for you and a family member.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave pay.
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