• Job Description

  Req#: 253784BR

  Job Description

  Role - Lead UX Manager

  Contract - Permanent

  Shift pattern - 12m FTC

  Workplace - London or Nottingham

  Closing Date - 31st May 2025

  Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

  Reporting To - Head of UX

  
  Intro

  Join us at Boots to be part of transforming the digital future of Boots! We’re seeking a motivated UX Lead to join our brilliant UX team. At Boots, our UX mission is to create seamless, enjoyable, and accessible user experiences, across retail and healthcare sectors. By prioritising human insight, we aim to drive outstanding results and make a meaningful impact on our business.
  

  About the role

  As a UX Lead at Boots, you’ll lead the UX for your product area(s) to support delivering Boots’ digital roadmap to create the digital future of Boots.
  

  • **Lead the UX for your area(s)**: You’ll lead a squad(s) of multidisciplinary UX team members through our User Centred Design process. Responsible for leading all UX activities from beginning (discovery) to end (delivery), spanning all UX disciplines. Utilising expertise from Centers of Excellence (CoEs) where necessary (e.g. accessibility, content design, service design etc.). Working closely and cross-functionally with our partners in Product, IT, Optimisation and Digital Experience (DX).
  • ** UX backlog contributor** Involved in driving the UX strategy for your area(s). Utilising user insights to continuously improve the user experience and help deliver our long-term strategy. Partnering with the Product Managers to contribute to the product vision and backlog, advocating for the users’ needs and goals.
  • **Quality & Coherency** : Responsible for your squad(s) delivering quality UX artefacts during the agile development cycle. Ensuring UX research and design balances the needs of the user, the goals of the business, the technical feasibility and accessibility compliance. Taking into consideration the holistic user experience and how your product area interacts with different product areas. Working within our User Centred Design (UCD) process, design system and brand style guides, challenging and evolving these when appropriate.
  • **Active member of the UX leadership team** Co-evolve our ways of working to create efficiencies and job satisfaction for the UX team. Promote team building and communication. Provide practical leadership, coaching and development to the junior and middleweight members of the team, empowering them to develop their technical and soft skills to be at their best. Taking on line management responsibility of between one and three direct reports.
  • **Key activity - Project Initiation** Upon receiving a project, you will expand the brief, define the UX approach based on our User-Centred Design (UCD) process, scope and create a project plan of tasks, estimates and resourcing requirements.
  • **Key activity - Direction** Throughout the research and design stages, you will oversee and provide clear UX direction. Taking accountability for UX delivery in your area. Utilising your stakeholder relationships and team leadership skills to successfully balance the users needs, the business goals and technical restrictions,
  • **Key activity - Problem definition** You will focus on ensuring the problem space and scope is clearly defined, before ideation begins. Consolidating the insights gained from the empathy and research stages, into problem statements to be solved in design.

  About You

  • **5-8 years experience in a UX role**, with supporting portfolio (or case studies) to showcase your abilities.
  • **Senior UX practitioner** Strong UX skill set and experience, spanning the whole User Centred Design (UCD) process. Comfortable at any point of the UCD process. Beneficial to have deeper specialism in a certain UX area (e.g. user research, product design, content design, service design, accessibility).
  • **In depth knowledge of User Centred Design (UCD)** principles and best practices. Experience with user research and UX discovery methodologies. Skilled and confidently able to use research, data and insights to understand user needs, frame the problem and then ensure designs enhance user experience and satisfaction.
  • **Experience designing for accessibility compliance** to level AA of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
  • **Excellent communication skills** with the ability to storytell, pitch and influence UX rationale in a language appropriate for your audience. To all levels of the organisation.
  • **People leadership** experience providing coaching or mentoring to junior researchers or designers. Beneficial to have line management experience.
  • **Stakeholder management** Capable of identifying, engaging and communicating with cross-functional stakeholders to co-create and implement user-centred design solutions that enhance user satisfaction and drive business growth.
  • **Project management** experience in developing detailed project plans, including estimates, timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables. Proficient in managing project progress, coordinating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring that UX design solutions are delivered on schedule, within scope, and meet quality standards, while adapting to any changes or challenges that arise.
  • **Agile and lean UX methodologies** (beneficial).
  • **Degree** in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field (beneficial).

  Our benefits

  • Boots Retirement Savings Plan

  • Discretionary annual bonus

  • Generous employee discounts

  • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child

  • Flexible benefits scheme including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more.

  • Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

  We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

  Why Boots

  At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it's with you, we change for the better.

  
  What's next

  If Successful one of our talent team will contact you and discuss the role with you in person.
  
  If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

  Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

  Business Area

  Support Office

  Function

  Digital

  Specialism

  Marketing

  Shift pattern

  Full time - weekdays

  Keywords

  pole provides line management to four UX Leads and leads a UX squad. The UX Leads are responsible for leading UX squads made up of Product Designers and User Researchers. The work the UX squads do is to provide user-centric designs and specifications for the development scrum teams to build from. Creating great user experiences for future Boots digital products and services, enables Boots to achieve commercial targets and increase customer satisfaction.

  Hours per week

  37.5

  Latitude,longitude 1

  52.927182,-1.183948

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  Weekdays

  Is this a Global Brands req?

  No

  Airport

  No

  Should this appear on the No7 Beauty Company website?

  No

  Company

  Non Stores

  Division

  Non Stores

  Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

  No

  Region

  East Midlands

  Area

  East Midlands (non stores)

  Store

  Nottingham Support Office

  Req Posted Date

  13-May-2025

  County

  Nottinghamshire

  Country

  UK

  Address 1

  Recruitment Service Centre (D94)

  Address 2

  Thane Road

  Address 3

  Nottingham

• About the company

  Boots Opticians Ltd. operates a chain of ophthalmic and dispensing optician stores in the United Kingdom.

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