Head of UX

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**Job Details**:
Location: Porto or London

**About the Role**:
Kantar is partnering with a world-leading technology company, with the purpose of accelerating and automating delivery of results using AI and other data-driven technologies.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**UX Strategy & Leadership**:

- Advocate for user-centered design principles while aligning UX priorities with business goals.
- Partner with product, engineering, and marketing teams to create cohesive and scalable design systems.

**User Experience & Design Excellence**:

- Lead the design and implementation of intuitive, data-driven user experiences.
- Oversee end-to-end UX processes, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Drive innovation, follow UX/UI trends, best practices, and emerging technologies, and incorporate them in Kantar product plans as appropriate.
- Collaborate with Product Development staff to optimize product functionality on new and existing products.

**User Research & Data-Driven Insights**:

- Drive user research initiatives, leveraging qualitative and quantitative insights to enhance usability.
- Collaborate with analytics and product teams to measure UX effectiveness and iterate based on user feedback.
- Champion accessibility, usability, and inclusivity in all UX efforts, ensuring designs comply with international standards and regulations.

**Team Building & Mentorship**:

- Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing UX design team.
- Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation, ensuring UX remains at the forefront of product development.
- Advocate for best practices in UX, usability, and accessibility across the organization.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- 7+ years of experience in UX/UI design, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Strong expertise in user research, usability testing, and data-driven design.
- Proficiency in Figma or similar UX design tools.
- Experience working in agile product development environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate design rationale effectively.
- Passion for user-centered design and accessibility best practices.
- Experience building and managing high-performing UX teams.
- Expertise in Data Visualization and Analytics Dashboards is a plus.

**Why Join Us?**:

- ** Innovation**: Work at the forefront of UX trends, AI-driven experiences, and enterprise design.
- ** Collaboration**: Partner with passionate product, engineering, and marketing teams.
- ** Growth**: Lead and scale a UX team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- ** User-Centric Culture**: Be the advocate for intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experiences.

Why join Kantar? We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever-shifting world.

Location: Porto, R. Dom João I, Portugal

**Kantar Rewards Statement**:
At Kantar, we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay-for-performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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