Calling all Graduates! Are you looking for an opportunity to kickstart your career with industry leading training and mentoring? If so, then look no further…

We’re looking for a Graduate UX designer to join our two-year Graduate programme, giving you experience working in a FTSE 100 listed software company. Everything we do at Sage is designed to help business flow, to help business’ make decisions faster and more accurately. As part of this, we rely on our team of experts to create, develop and maintain industry-leading products. And that’s where you come in!

We’re on the hunt for our future top talent who can bring their skills and expertise to continue to drive us forward.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll join the Strategic Services design team at Sage within the central experience design organisation - benefitting from working alongside a multidisciplinary team of more than 50 UX designers, researchers, content designers, illustrators and front-end specialists.

The Strategic Services team focuses on innovative solutions and new propositions in the areas including Sage AI, chatbots, data, developer experiences and membership – to deliver value to our customers and partners ecosystem in our continued goal to build experiences that connect, remove friction and deliver insights. So, if you’re passionate about data, AI, new technologies and humane innovations – this is a great opportunity to be a part of this exciting journey and grow in a fast-paced environment. You will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders to discover and define user and business needs and design a world-class user experience for them.

Throughout the 2-year Graduate programme and your career at Sage, we want you to be enthusiastic about your personal development, and continuously learn new things to strive for excellence. We expect a lot from our Graduates and will encourage you to bring innovative ideas to add real value for our customers, in an environment where ambition for future progression is rewarded.

Key responsibilities

As a Graduate Experience Designer, your role would involve:

  • Continuous user research, iterative experience design, content design and measurement for the solution areas relevant for Strategic Services
  • Crafting engaging experiences for our services and products, including usability, UI copy, interactions and micro-interactions
  • Creating designs with empathy and clarity to communicate complex concepts in a user-friendly way
  • Representing the customer’s point of view and bring user empathy and clarity to the teams that helps create solutions that deliver good value to our customers and partners
  • Help Sage teams get a deep understanding of the people who use our products
  • Inform and evaluate design decisions that enable Sage products work well for our users
  • Experimentation with AI and other newer technologies to drive innovations and efficiencies

You’ll need to be a Graduate, ideally, in relevant discipline like Product or Interaction Design, Interactive Media, Visual Communication. Whilst we’re open to any degree discipline, you’ll need to demonstrate user-centricity, ideally with great balance of design thinking, business orientation and a data-informed mindset.

Alongside this you’ll be

  • A team player, willing to contribute to multiple facets of design.
  • A keen eye for detail and an inquisitive mind to help solve problems.
  • You’ll be resilient and determined, able to work in a fast-paced, changing environment.
  • As part of a global business, you’ll be an effective communicator, able to collaborate with people from across the world.
  • Able to present your work and elaborate on your decision-making.