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    4. UX Designer Student Placement 2022
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    Matillion technology turns every business into a data business. Our low-code data integration platform helps modern teams ingest, enrich and synchronise their data across a variety of cloud platforms. Leading companies like Slack, Cisco, and DocuSign trust Matillion to help them transform operational data into useful information at enterprise scale.

    We’re backed by top Silicon Valley investors and recently closed a $150M Series E in September 2021 for a total amount of $250M raised in 2021. Our investors include current and former backers of other leading enterprise data companies like Databricks, Informatica and Mulesoft.

    As Snowflake’s 2021 data integration partner of the year and a winner of Databricks’ 2021 ISV Innovation Award, our product strategy and engineering execution is continuously recognized as best in class by a rapidly growing ecosystem of technology partners.

    With dual headquarters in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, and an expanding hybrid culture, we are looking for passionate, high-integrity individuals to help us scale up our rapidly growing business.

    We are now looking for a Placement UX Designer to join #TeamGreen in the UK. The role can be based from our Manchester-HQ, or remotely across the UK or Ireland.

    The Student UX Designer is responsible for owning and contributing to UX Research and Design activities that support our mission of creating a best-in-class experience for Matillion customers.

    You’ll have the opportunity and support to learn-as-you-go in an exciting, fast paced SaaS environment — ensuring that the customer is at the heart of everything we do. Working with other UX Designers who’ll mentor you through a range of challenges and opportunities, you’ll develop skills and learn tools and methodologies that help you become a great problem solver. All of which will be supported additionally by dedicated time towards your personal growth and development, allowing you to explore the many facets of UX to discover what you enjoy most and where you’d like to grow.

    What you will be doing

    Work with UX Designers, Product Managers, Engineers and Customers to deliver and launch product features

    • Plan and conduct user research activities (surveys, interviews, usability testing)
    • Assist in the creation of UX product deliverables (task flows, wireframes, prototypes and UI)
    • Collaborate in the creation of UX artefacts (personas, customer journey maps, service blueprints etc.)
    • Communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and design thinking methodology to the wider business
    • Help progress the Matillion design language and visual style
    • Support and participate in design workshops and discussions
    • Help turn design requirements in to tickets for engineers to deliver
    • Learn new design tools, ideologies and frameworks that help deliver great software efficiently

    Own design tasks / projects

    • Conduct heuristic UX analysis of internal and competitor products to provide competitive intelligence for the business
    • Analyse product data to discover and define opportunities
    • Consolidate research findings in to presentations to communicate with the business
    • Advance the UX Design and UX Research knowledge base content, usability, reach and engagement in the business
    • Support, formalise and automate internal processes to drive improved efficiency in the design team
    • Document / Blog your UX journey at Matillion to provide increased exposure to the outside design world

    What we are looking for

    Required

    • Background in design or related studies
    • A passion for people, psychology, business and technology
    • Interest in how to create innovative data software products that help people achieve more!

    Nice to haves

    • Studying / Studied UX, another design discipline, HCI or psychology
    • Portfolio / Projects demonstrating experience with design methodologies / tools (Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, InVision etc)
    • Familiarity with:
      • User research
      • Responsive web design, HTML and CSS
      • Data and data concepts
      • Cloud technology
      • Designing for accessibility

    What we are looking for: Personal Capabilities

    • Highly collaborative and proactive nature
    • Comfortable around new technologies
    • A great eye for detail
    • Fantastic communication abilities (interpersonal, verbal, written, digital whiteboard, slides!)
    • Great time management and ability to balance multiple initiatives effectively
    • Fast and proactive learner

    Support you will get from Matillion

    • 1-2-1 meetings with your mentor to actively manage your journey within Matillion.
    • Work closely and learn from more experienced UX Designers.
    • Take advantage of learning aids offered by Matillion, such as Hackday, Udemy and the Matillion Academy

    Our Benefits

    • A culture that promotes work life balance
    • Access to mental health support
    • 25 days holiday
    • 5 days paid volunteering leave
    • Pension
    • Career development with monthly hackdays and access to a Udemy account
    • & much more!

    We are keen to hear from prospective employees, so please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.