Lead UX Strategist (Permanent)

LEAD STRATEGIST (EXPERIENCE DESIGN)
LOCATION: Central London (Holborn) - shiny brand-new office with a rooftop
Salary - Up to £60k

This hugely successful Digital Marketing Agency, fully appreciate that their success is down to the exceptional talent they recruit, so this is why they proud to offer you such a large range of benefits!
Such as:
*Competitive salary
*25 days holiday a year, plus Public and Bank Holidays and 1.5 days at Christmas.
*Summer Fridays: the last Friday of June, July and August are half days for everyone (on us!), no need to book it off
*Free breakfast and fruit
*Health cover
*Enhanced pension
*Discounted gym membership
*Beer O'Clock: Every week we like to celebrate the work we've done with a drink (and snack). It's tools down at 5pm each Friday for some social time with the team and a friendly (or not) table tennis match.
*We also provide discounts on top brands, child care vouchers, travel loans and much more.
*The opportunity to work amongst passionate, respectful, talented individuals who believe in excellence.
This company have been designing and building great experiences for a suite of credible and global business's for more than two decades. They provide a wealth of opportunity for imaginative and ambitious talent. They have over 700 digital specialists in eight locations, with a new Holborn office playing host to 150 media, tech, creative, data, and user experience colleagues.


They have an opening for a Lead UX Strategist to join the team! In a nutshell, your role will involve:
*You help pitch and win new work. We have Strategy and UX as part of one team for a reason: you believe that strategic decisions should be derived from legitimate consumer insight.
*Convert client-articulated requirements, briefs, thoughts and problems into strategically sound digital proposals
*Utilise appropriate methodologies to undertake consumer, brand and sector research that provides specific insights for projects and pitches
*Work closely with data specialists to bring together qual and quant to uncover relevant, actionable insights
*Plan and facilitate focused workshops with large groups of stakeholders, e.g., to gather requirements, plot customer journeys or map out content across a customer life cycle
*Work closely with other disciplines including UX, design, tech, SEO and data to ensure the products we build are in line with our strategic recommendations
*Work collaboratively on pitches, proposals and other new business outputs
*Document strategies and ideas that are compelling, logical and actionable: provide the "so what" for clients
*Present recommendations to stakeholder groups; pitch in new projects
*Present to agency on topical trends and behaviours relevant to the business
*Support agency marketing and PR with presentations, comments and opinion pieces


To be suitable, you will need to demonstrate:

*Relevant experience working in a digital strategy role with full ownership of the research and strategy on major projects and clients
*Strong research methodologies with the ability to quickly uncover and distil relevant insights
*Experience and confidence planning and facilitating multi-discipline workshops with large client teams
*Entrepreneurial: able to spot a trend and turn it into a client opportunity
*Experience expressing, justifying and presenting ideas and concepts in different formats
*Curious about the ways in which human behaviour intersects with technology innovation
*Working knowledge of modern technologies and data platforms
*Love working as part of a team, collaborating with UX, data, creative and technology experts to educate and learn from
*Confident and passionate about your work and able to present findings to clients in a convincing and persuasive manner
*Organised and able to work to tight deadlines with strong attention to detail
*Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
*Awareness of the full customer lifecycle and the relevance of different touchpoints
*Great interpersonal skills and the ability to extract actionable information from interviews and other primary research
*Agile, flexible, can think on feet, adaptable to different requests and circumstances

If this is something you'd be keen to learn more about, get in touch asap by on [Email Removed] or [Removed]!

ISL (Incite Solutions Ltd) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.