Product Designer

In short: UI/UX designer, need a portfolio to prove it! Speed is a big thing for us, as are sketch skills.

About the Designer position

We are looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to create amazing user experiences, helping our products to be highly attractive and competitive.

You should be keen in clean and artful design and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, creating beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.

UI Designer responsibilities are:

• Work together with product management and engineering to build innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Participate in all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Develop original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Prepare wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Discuss designs and key milestone deliverables with peers and executive level stakeholders
• Perform user research and evaluate user feedback
• Set design guidelines, best practices and standards
• Stay up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• The production of high-fidelity prototypes, through the customisation of any of our core Products
• Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with our Product and Engineering teams, including the adjustment of specs and deliverables to meet product requirements and limitations.
• Illustrating design ideas using storyboards, process flows, user journeys and personas.
• Working with the Product, Engineering and Project Management teams to bring new product features to life
• Working as a UX Researcher and utilise a variety of testing techniques to inform and validate the direction of your design.
• Keep abreast of competitors’ products and industry trends.

UI Designer requirements are:

• Profound UI design skills with a solid portfolio of design projects
  
• Experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Significant experience with Sketch
• Strong visual design skills with good understanding of user-system interaction
  
• Strong presentational and team player abilities
• Strong problem-solving skills with creative approach

Skills & Experience

• Demonstrable work experience as a UI/UX Designer.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills make you adept at working to tight deadlines.
• Passionate about all things design, with the ability to demonstrate this through your work and when communicating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Constantly looking to hone your design instinct through user feedback, whether through hands-on user research or designing options for multi-variant testing.
• Proficient in industry-standard tools for producing designs, assets and clickable prototypes; including Sketch.
• Fluent in current UX best practice and usability principles, interaction and UI design trends.
• Good understanding of front-end development to inform high quality, implementable solutions. N.B. Programming skills are not a requirement, but certainly beneficial.
• Confident in presenting and promoting your ideas, thinking and design processes to a wider team, both across Product and Engineering, even with strong-willed and fast-paced teams