Koodoo is hiringProduct Designer

Full TimeProduct Design

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Koodoo is on a mission to change the world of mortgages. We want to make it easy for people to secure financing for their dream home.

We’re already working with some of the UK’s leading price comparison sites, banks and building societies, powering over 700k mortgage searches each month.

We’re looking for a UK-based product designer to joining our growing team.

Responsibilities

Design fully responsive user experiences across multiple web applications and brands
Continuing to build and improve our design system
Work with product managers to define user needs, create user stories and help shape the product roadmap
Refine requirements and ensure that new functionality is delivered by working closely with engineers
Create design documentation and work with developers to ensure the smooth delivery translations of designs into code
Communicate design decisions and their rationale to the wider team
Applying user-centred design to champion the needs of the end-user
Build and participate in user-testing sessions to validate our designs and uncover usability issues
Rapidly iterate on products and features, delivering wireframes, mockups and prototypes
Keep up with current design trends, tools and UI/UX best practices

The Person

You’re intentional in your design decisions and able to clearly articulate the reasons behind each one.
You are outcome-oriented and naturally prioritise improvements that will make the biggest impact
You begin by understanding a product’s objectives
You think strategically and are an expert in translating user behaviour into great user experience and design
You love to collaborate and are at your best when you're working with cross-functional teams
You should also be good at quickly iterating and taking feedback into account
You should be a keen communicator and team player
You have great attention to detail and an ability to critique your own and others’ designs

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

2+ years of experience designing digital products
A design portfolio that demonstrates design principles for web and/or mobile platforms
A deep knowledge of Figma, Sketch or similar design tool
Experience creating prototypes and conducting user testing
Experience working as part of a cross-functional team including product people and engineers

Preferred Requirements

Experience in prototyping and/or motion design using tools such as ProtoPie, AE etc.
Experience designing products in the financial services space
Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS
Ability to create illustrations