Senior UX Designer- Initiative application
Senior UX Designer
Basel, hybrid
DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.
JOB PURPOSE
This position sits in our Zurich-based Experience & Engineering business unit. We deliver many services, from strategy and a performance-driven full-funnel approach to campaigning, e-commerce, data & analytics and content. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional and engaging digital experiences.
As UX Designer you lay the foundation for fantastic end-to-end user experiences. You have an appetite for complex challenges and can’t wait to translate them into beautiful and smart digital products. And you enjoy working in a dynamic environment with the best and most fun people the industry has to offer.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Bringing new ideas around best practices and cross-industry insights towards your project teams;
- Close collaboration with the IT department
- Participate and lead discovery sessions and apply generative methods to uncover potential challenges and opportunities;
- Translate strategy and insights into well considered journeys, flows and wireframes;
- Substantiate your design choices with annotations;
- Create simple prototypes (and validate these with users if needed);
- Presenting your work to clients and stakeholders and handle input and feedback;
- Working back-to-back with UI designers to help shape the final user experience;
WHAT YOU BRING:
- 5+ years of experience as UX designer at an agency or renowned brand;
- Experience with designing websites, apps and digital products for A-brands;
- A strong portfolio (website or PDF) demonstrating your experience and passion;
- Experience with working in multidisciplinary teams;
- Ideally knowledge in SEO practices
- Working proficiency in English and German;
- Experience with Figma and collaborative tools;
WE OFFER
- Flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location);
- 25 days holiday with the opportunity to take unpaid leave;
- Flexible health budget and Wellness & personal day.
- Learning & development budget.
- Referral bonus program.
- Occasional breakfast & lunch at the office, Smoothie Tuesday.
- Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform.
- You can choose to work from the spacious and barrier-free location in Zurich; in Bern you can expect a small but nice and fully equipped office where you can hit the keys in peace.
- Social events, plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues through organised activities and celebrations.
- A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021 and named ‘Agency of the Year’ at both The Lovies and The Webby Awards.
- Awesome clients. Whether big or small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with clients of all sizes and across all industries. And we celebrate all of our successes together!
- The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications.
- Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities.
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