Job Description
Role: UX Lead - Mobile App
Shift Pattern: Full Time
Contract: 12M FTC
Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan
Join Our Team as a UX Lead - Mobile App at Boots in Nottingham, Beeston!
Are you passionate about creating exceptional user experiences? At Boots, we’re on the lookout for a talented UX Lead - Mobile App to join our dynamic Digital team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact in a company that values innovation and collaboration.
Why Boots?
At Boots, we work every day to build a brilliant environment for our people, empowering them to make a difference for our customers and colleagues. Our commitment to care, confidence, and connection is at the heart of everything we do.
What You’ll Do As our UX Lead, you will:
- Lead the design and development of user-centric mobile app experiences.
- Directly manage a team of Product Ddesigners, with a meaningful commitment to their development and day-to-day performance.
- Provide hands-on coaching, design direction, and honest feedback that helps each designer grow and deliver their best work.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovative solutions.
- Utilise your expertise to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
- Hold accountability for the quality and effectiveness of all UX artefacts produced within the App domain during the agile development cycle.
- Ensure design decisions balance user needs, business goals, technical feasibility, and accessibility compliance.
- Maintain awareness of how the App experience interacts with adjacent product areas, ensuring a holistic and coherent user journey.
- Work within and contribute to the evolution of shared UCD process, design system, and brand guideline
- Partner with the Product Lead to contribute to the app product vision and UX backlog, grounding recommendations in user insight and data.
- Continuously identify experience improvement opportunities and help define the longer-term UX direction for the domain.
Ideally we would like you to have
- Hands-on experience designing native mobile apps for iOS and/or Android.
- Experience bringing an autonomous, established team into alignment with wider organisational design standards or governance frameworks.
- Familiarity with agile and lean UX methodologies within a large, cross-functional product organisation.
- Deeper specialism in one UX discipline - e.g. product design, user research, content design, or accessibility - alongside breadth across others.
- Experience in retail, e-commerce, or consumer-facing digital products.
What We Offer:
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan .
- Generous employee discounts for you and a family member.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave pay.
