Job Description

Here at Anaplan, we have reinvented how companies see, plan, and run their businesses. Our platform allows our customers to uncover new insights, connect their strategy to their plans, and work in ways they had not previously thought possible. We\'re growing fast, constantly innovating, and couldn\'t be prouder to help our customers move forward with confidence in a sophisticated and changing world.

We are looking for forward-thinking people who put customer experience at the forefront of every decision. Individuals who thrive on challenges and are ready to grasp the opportunity of a lifetime. Because we fundamentally believe every colleague brings outstanding value to our whole. We are a workplace where each person feels seen, heard, and valued, and can contribute their unique talent to our collective effort. We believe that for ourselves and for our customers.

Anaplan is looking for an Associate User Experience Designer to join our growing global User Experience team in York, and contribute as a member of our R&D organisation, with offices in San Francisco, Minneapolis, London and York.

Now is an exciting time to join a mature team with 20 + designers and researchers, focused on rolling out beautiful and intuitive mobile and web interfaces that help businesses plan across the enterprise and improve decision-making. Our team provides design expertise across multiple scrum teams, supports the evolution of an exciting new design system and makes time for exploratory work that informs our product vision.

We\'re responsible for advocating the user experience across our ecosystem. We facilitate data-driven decisions through understanding user needs and problems, and evaluating solutions. Our goal is to drive customer delight and that \'aha\' moment for our customers when they see the possibilities of Anaplan.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is in the infancy of their UX career and wants to progress in the field whilst being mentored and supported by a team of domain experts.

Your Impact

You will be working with product owners, engineers and our design system team to design online content for our admin, builder and business user personas. You will play a big part in developing reusable design patterns, with the aim of creating a cohesive end-to-end experience for our customers.

• Understand and advocate for our users, identify solutions and deliver great experiences.
• Participate in collaborative cross-functional design studios to ideate on proposals.
• Work closely with senior designers and other customers to iterate through design proposals.
• Work with our researchers to evaluate high-risk proposals through user research.
• Describe solutions through lightweight design assets and UX acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate quantitative and qualitative feedback in order to continually improve solutions.

Preferred Skills

• A passion for UX design, information architecture and interaction design.
• Ability to use solid methodologies for solving complex user problems.
• Communicating ideas quickly through sketching.
• Forming hypotheses based on common patterns, related tools and understanding of user behaviour.
• Experience using HTML or specialist tools such as InVision or Axure.
• Describing cross-device experiences using tools such as Sketch.
• Hands-on experience of user research.
• Experience with complex application design, especially in financial systems.
• Experience with mobile (iOS/Android/mobile-web) is desirable

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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