User Experience Graduate - 2025

Job description

Position Description:

Looking for a challenge? Excitement? Ready to own your career and make an impact from day one?

At CGI, we offer Early Careers opportunities that empower you to take ownership of your work and your future. Join us, and you’ll be part of the next generation of leaders and innovators, working to solve complex challenges and drive the digital transformation of industries.

The Role – User Experience Graduate

As a User Experience Graduate you will join CGI on the Graduate programme where you’ll step into a role where creativity and ownership are at the core. You will be joining a User Research and Design team within our Government and Justice business area where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of meaningful projects that matter.

Our graduates are trusted with responsibility from day one, contributing to some of the UK’s most exciting industries. CGI is a place where your ideas and solutions are not just welcomed, but essential. You’ll collaborate with colleagues and clients, combining your creativity with our global expertise to develop innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Empowerment through Innovation: From the very start, you’ll play a key role in project delivery, helping shape the future of businesses across a range of industries.
• Collaborate and Create: Apply your insights to consult on and develop solutions that drive real value for clients, all while collaborating with CGI Partners to overcome complex challenges.
• Learn and Develop: As a CGI Early Careers Partner you will benefit from additional business, technical and soft skills training, helping you accelerate in your career from day one.

As a User Experience Graduate at CGI, you'll play a critical role in uncovering deep insights about users' needs, behaviours, and experiences. Your findings will inform and shape crucial public services. You'll work closely with researchers and designers and others to ensure services are designed with the user at the heart of the process. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding users' needs and behaviours, analysing evidence, and translating findings into actionable insights.

Your work will ensure that research activities include diverse user groups to make services accessible and inclusive. Working in our Government and Justice business areas, you will begin your role within User Research / User Centred Design.

Locations:

We recruit User Experience Graduates in our London, Bridgend, Manchester, Newcastle and Solihull offices. As CGI is a consultancy, you may be required to work in different locations, so flexibility and a willingness to travel are key.

Why Join Us?

At CGI, we believe in investing in our people. From the moment you join, you are not just an employee; you are a CGI Partner , with the opportunity and responsibility to participate in all aspects of the company. You’ll contribute to building a company we can all be proud of.

• Be Valued: You’ll be part of a culture that celebrates diversity, inclusion, and collaboration, where your unique perspective and ideas are recognised and contribute to the success of the team and the organisation.
• Be empowered: You’ll start with a structured Early Careers Induction Programme designed to help you hit the ground running, and you’ll have access to ongoing mentorship from your buddy and managers.
• Be Creative: Our Student Kick-start Initiative will give you the chance to work with fellow graduates on creative and impactful projects beyond your day-to-day role.

With opportunities to gain professional qualifications and develop your skills through 24/7 access to e-learning platforms, you’ll be equipped to navigate your career with confidence.

Benefits:

Along with a competitive salary and a £1000 joining bonus, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:

• Be an owner: All CGI Partners are offered a stake and say in the business with a 3.5% matched share scheme, making you an owner from day one.
• Be supported: Award winning health and well-being programmes, access to world-class training and development and benefit from private medical insurance,
• Be secure: A competitive pension plan to help secure your future.
• Be connected: Take advantage of our free sports and social clubs, diversity networks, and local office events, helping you build connections and enjoy your time at CGI.

CGI is an unconditionally inclusive workplace where you are respected, your voice is heard, and you can be yourself. We were recognized in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2024 and named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

We’re seeking individuals who are ready to take ownership of their career and are passionate about making a difference through technology and business. Whatever your degree subject if you’re eager to learn , collaborate , and innovate , we want to hear from you.

Candidates with psychology or other research-intensive degrees may be particularly well-suited for this role.

• Minimum 2:2 degree (some roles may require a 2:1 depending on the business unit)
• Flexibility to travel and work on different projects across the UK
• Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, project-based environment

Due to the security clearance requirements of this particular role UK nationality is required.

Desired skills

·  Communication, Interpersonal, and Teamwork Skills

·  Strong presentation skills

·  Resilience

·  Digital Awareness - Basic understanding of digital channels, including the opportunities and limitations they may present.

·  User focus: -Ability to empathise with users and their circumstances, potential barriers and requirements in a digital environment.

·  Design thinking: - A basic understanding of design approaches based on understanding users' needs.

·  Accessibility and inclusive design - Basic awareness that there are accessibility standards and assistive technologies.

·  Agile UX: - Basic understanding that iteration and adaptation will lead your activities, and the importance of taking a minimum viable product (MVP) mindset.

·  Negotiation and compromise - Capacity to balance thorough research with practical project requirements, ensuring both the needs of the business and project objectives are met.

·  Prioritisation skills - Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment, ensuring essential tasks are completed first. Digital skills - an awareness of product development cycle

·  Understanding of User-Centred Design (UCD) or Human-Centred Design (HCD) - Foundational knowledge of UCD or HCD principles is beneficial, with additional training provided as part of the graduate scheme.

·  Awareness of different analysis techniques - Basic awareness of techniques for analysing and interpreting raw data, particularly relevant for user research roles.

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.