Location: Clerkenwell

Salary: £excellent plus share options

Red Badger is rapidly expanding and we are looking for amazing UX design consultants to join the team at our new offices in Clerkenwell. We are passionate about innovation, agile development, and integrated teams, so you’ll be working closely with some of the best UX consultants and developers around, crafting engaging and immersive experiences which look beautiful and flow effortlessly.

You will need:

• Over 5 years’ experience working in the area of user experience design and user research. (having said that if you can do your job, we don't really mind what your title is or how long you've worked)
• An excellent eye for interactive design and experience working as part of a design team with visual designers
• An in-depth knowledge of the user-centred design process
• An understanding of technology and experience working closely with technology teams to deliver projects
• Experience creating wireframe designs, creating prototypes, creating appropriate diagrams to visualise concepts
• Experience working in a client-facing role, presenting design concepts and running workshops.
• Ability to estimate and manage time
• Experience in multi-platform design (website/mobile/ipad etc)

Nice to haves:

• Good mix of portfolio from different sectors
• Experience in agile
• Some understanding of HTML/CSS would be a bonus

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team at the start of its development when you can help to shape the organisation and the culture as we grow. We are winning new clients very quickly, so we expect the team will expand substantially in 2012.

For more information or to apply please contact us here: hello@red-badger.com

Location: Clerkenwell

Salary: £excellent plus share options

Red Badger is rapidly expanding and we are looking for amazing design consultants to join the team at our new offices in Clerkenwell. We are passionate about innovation, agile development, and integrated teams, so you’ll be working closely with some of the best UX consultants and developers around, crafting engaging and immersive experiences which look beautiful and flow effortlessly.

You will need:

• Over 5 years’ industry or hands-on art director experience. (having said that if you can do your job, we don't really mind what your title is or how long you've worked)
• Good understanding of online branding
• Good understanding of user experience (it's all about user centric design)
• Great attention to detail
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams (you will be drawing up wireframes together with UX and developers)
• Flexibility and ability to work as part of a team
• A good understanding of production (yes you'll be cutting up pngs and jpgs)
• Ability to estimate and manage time

Nice to haves:

• Experience in multi-platform design (website/mobile/ipad etc)
• Good mix of portfolio from different sectors
• Experience in agile or have an open minded approach to process
• Good understanding of animations / videos

Skills:

• Photoshop / Illustrator
• Some understanding of HTML/CSS would be a bonus

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small team at the start of its development when you can help to shape the organisation and the culture as we grow. We are winning new clients very quickly, so we expect the team will expand substantially in 2012.

For more information or to apply please contact us here: hello@red-badger.com

So I've joined the team at Red Badger, and now that I'm 2 weeks in I thought I'd share some musings. For those that don't know me, I'm the new Director of Client Services, which means I'm going to be responsible for all things business development, account management, marketing and  generally helping the team to grow the business. And refreshingly, that doesn't just mean "make as much money as fast as possible", but rather focus on interesting, value-adding work which plays to the company's strengths - use of cutting edge technologies, blended UX and delivery teams, innovation and creativity. So I've spent a couple of weeks settling in and doing all the things you'd expect. I've been getting to know the team, meeting some of RB's very impressive clients, telling some of my own contacts about the company's capability, and the thing I've spent the most time on so far is drawing up a business development strategy for the company. This is still a work in progress and needs lots of input from the founders, but it's starting to take shape. One of the things I love about smaller companies is you can be creative, unconstrained by history and structure, and just come up with some great ideas and go after them.

Here's what I've noticed so far:

The focus - the guys who set up the company are friends I've worked with in the past - they were always outstanding and focussed but doing their own thing has amplified this, and their commitment has rubbed off on the entire team. Everyone's top quality, really into it and switched on. And how many consultancies can you say that about?

The team feeling - usually there's at least some friction between the UX guys, the developers, the project manager etc. Not here. Everyone seems to instinctively, and through experience, get what each other is trying to achieve and they can genuinely work together. lovely.

The techy-ness - whilst it's integrated and design focussed, this is a very technical company. The guys are forever trying new things, just to see if there's a better way, which really pays off.

Just doing it - I've spent some time recently at an organisation that provides advisory services on cloud computing and other venerable subjects, which is great but very slow and time consuming. None of that here - we're just doing cloud, we're just doing 3d, we're just doing multi-channel, we're just doing mobile. There's no fuss, no-one's shouting about it and trying to turn it into a pretty picture, it just happens.

So I'm excited, which is a good place to start. The work we're doing at the moment for customers is very exciting, the focus areas for the next 12 months are pretty cool, and some of the new product ideas the team are thinking about will blow your mind. But more on that stuff later. For now it's just "hello, I'm here, taking it all in, liking what I see so far....."