Playtech Sports specialises in the provision of online betting and gaming software to UK and global service providers. Headquartered in London and founded in 2005, our GenBet product provides operators with a robust and secure central customer management platform onto which any number of products can be added and managed. Our flexible Sportsbook product allows the operator to tailor their online service whilst a comprehensive back office and reporting suite provides powerful tools for event and market management. Playtech Sports has been a part of Playtech since January 2012, meaning that existing and future customers now benefit from the industry leading GenBet product suite, delivered on Playtech's comprehensive IMS (information management solution).

As a Senior UX designer you will work as part of the design team in close collaboration with the Sports Product and Development teams to deliver best-in-class digital products to our customers. You will work closely with the team lead to help develop and manage the more junior team members and their work.

With a strong understanding of UX practices and methodologies, you are an end-user advocate who produces experiences that engage even the most discerning audiences. You are a research and data enthusiast who consumes large amounts of information and distils it into simple, yet engaging, and useful products and services to serve a wide variety of experiences. Think research, testing, wireframes, and prototypes.

Main Duties

• Work closely within the team of UX and UI designers, and with the wider product and development teams to design end to end digital user experiences
• Provide support to and manage more junior staff in their duties, and help nurture their understanding of our products, processes, tools, and techniques
• Conduct user research, test and study usage, alongside reviewing and prioritising user and product requirements
• Develop sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and designs that succinctly illustrate user journeys, content structure, hierarchy, and navigation
• Facilitate workshops, champion UX within Sports and Playtech, and present and explain UX decisions to internal and external stakeholders
• Support business development activities such as contributing expert input to sales and marketing documents, third party product reviews and partner products

Main Duties

• Work closely within the team of UX and UI designers, and with the wider product and development teams to design end to end digital user experiences
• Provide support to and manage more junior staff in their duties, and help nurture their understanding of our products, processes, tools, and techniques
• Conduct user research, test and study usage, alongside reviewing and prioritising user and product requirements
• Develop sketches, wireframes, prototypes, and designs that succinctly illustrate user journeys, content structure, hierarchy, and navigation
• Facilitate workshops, champion UX within Sports and Playtech, and present and explain UX decisions to internal and external stakeholders
• Support business development activities such as contributing expert input to sales and marketing documents, third party product reviews and partner products

Experience/Skills

Required

• 4+ years of relevant experience, at least 2 of which must have been in a professional capacity within a technology focussed environment
• Previous experience working as a senior practitioner within a design team with experience managing and supporting more junior team members
• Excellent knowledge in UX design processes and methodologies, understanding of current UX/UI trends with the ability to spot a good or bad one
• Knowledge and understanding of research methods including analytics, unmoderated and moderated user testing, and how these can help drive products forward
• Expert with an array of appropriate wireframe, collaboration, testing and prototyping tools (Figma, Zeplin, Sketch, Invision, Adobe XD etc.)
• Although the role is UX focussed, a good knowledge of visual and interaction design is essential
• Good knowledge of web technologies, analytics, accessibility, SEO, and responsive design and how these can affect user interfaces
• Comfortable with spoken and written English. We have offices in Sweden, Austria, Germany, Cyprus, and Ukraine among others (so there is opportunity to travel)

Desirable

• Prior experience working as part of a remote team
• Experience designing for complex transactional interfaces and back-office platforms, e.g. within the sports betting or financial industries