Dext is hiringSenior Mobile UX Designer

Who we are, what we do and why

We are Dext - the world's leading provider of accounting & bookkeeping automation software. Our products improve the efficiency and financial data workflow processes of accountants, bookkeepers, and businesses globally. We are trusted by over 1 million SMBs worldwide. Our solutions embrace AI, machine learning and emerging technologies to advance and improve the accounting process for all, to make accounting more effortless.

The Dext Prepare Mobile app (iOS and Android) gives control to users so they can see a real-time view of their business. The app is the quickest and easiest way to capture, upload and track cashflow, and submit expense reports. Dext is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer with a passion for creating best-in-class app experiences to overhaul the existing app to offer an enhanced and customised experience to all our app users using user segmentation. The outcome will be a delightful product-based, feature-rich mobile app that seamlessly integrates with Dext products on web.

This role sits within the Design and Research Team which encompasses UX Research, UX Design, UI Design and UX Content. Our mission within the Design and Research team is to use our collective expertise to represent our users, explore opportunities and solve complex problems that enable our customers to be efficient, profitable and happy while using our products. We have a clear vision of being a diverse and collaborative team of experts, creating experiences users ‘love to need’ in a business at the forefront of FinTech innovation.

The Role (what you’ll do)

Core reponsibility is to overhaul the experience and design of Dext’s existing app by:

• Working collaboratively within the Mobile team alongside UX Research, Product Managers, Engineers and other key stakeholders
• Working with the Research Team to use data and insights from various sources to understand user behaviours and mental models to inform the continuous development of the new app
• Use those insights and user segmentation to create a new app experience that allows the users to tailor the app to their needs
• Using the information architecture research piece to provide better discoverability and findability of all app features.
• Improve existing features such as the camera and the overall experiences of capturing and uploading receipts and invoices
• Collaborate with your team to understand the problem, define problem statements, through ideation, prototyping and testing
• Produce timely, scalable and high-quality UX solutions using mobile best practices and design patterns
• Setting up and running usability tests of the designs you create, iterating and applying learnings
• Ability to confidently manage stakeholders of all levels, fostering alignment by running various problem-solving and alignment activities through workshops and collaborative meetings

About you (what we are looking for):

• User-focussed, ensuring evidence-based, data-driven approaches to design and delivery.
• Specialise in and have a deep working experience of mobile apps, with a portfolio of examples that demonstrate your experience with end-to-end product design.
• Comfortable leading design within a team, working alongside product management and engineering leadership for that area.
• Have a deep understanding of how to tailor mobile apps for different user types and their needs using mobile design patterns and best practices for both iOS and Android
• Act as a strong advocate for user experience throughout the product design process.
• You will be responsible for the quality and coherency of your area’s execution across the mobile apps, products and touchpoints they deliver to.
• Work with the broader product teams to estimate, plan and sequence work based on business objectives, opportunities and impact.
• Extensive experience in the fintech industry, preferably working in banking for a challenger bank

What Success Looks Like

• Continually supporting the effort of identifying opportunities and resolving issues by working with various stakeholders across the business including Product Managers, UX Designers, Product Marketers and Pricing Teams.
• Playing a crucial role in educating colleagues on conventions, UXR best practices and user behaviours and making sure that these are considered in the decision-making process at all stages of the project.
• Demonstrates the ability to think about the wider impact of this work and its impact on future iterations (future-proofing)

What you’ll bring

Essentials

Skills

• Ability to demonstrate the process and outcome of the evidence-based approach that you’ve employed on previous projects
• You are regarded as an expert in designing products for mobile apps including seamless integration with web
• Excellent collaboration skills, working well with ux team and cross-functional teams
• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills
• Actively build supportive relationships that are conducive to collaboration, peer development, and trust.
• Ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative research from various sources to deliver actionable design recommendations.
• Know how to demonstrate user needs and how this impacts the business from a commercial context to stakeholders
• Experience using design tools such as Figma, Miro or equivalent

Knowledge

• A minimum of 5 years experience working on mobile apps
• We don’t expect a formal degree, but your depth and domain of knowledge is equivalent to that of a BA/BSc/MA in HCI, Information Systems, Computer Science, Graphic Design or similar.

Behaviours

• Strategic-minded and creative thinker
• Good planning and time management
• Proactive and takes responsibility for own work seeking help when needed
• Ability to communicate a story or idea in a way that’s engaging
• Self-motivated, fun, entrepreneurial and endlessly curious
• Values continuous development of the process, self and peers
• Actively seeks to be knowledgeable of the latest industry trends.

Preferable, but not necessary

• Experience using data tools such as FullStory, Mixpanel and Looker
• Saas platform experience

What you will be a part of:

We are a highly ambitious, innovative, market-leading FinTech. We are a global, Private Equity backed business (HgCapital), but we have the dexterity and pace of a scale-up. We are uncompromising in our desire to achieve our best, day-in day-out, and we have three clear values which guide everything we do:
Be Brave - Everyone in the company has a voice to challenge ideas and the status quo.
Be Exceptional - We set high standards for ourselves. We aim to be exceptional at what we do.
Be Together - We are one team. There is no such thing as individual success without team success.

Our behaviours are how we practically live and breathe our values and are an essential part of life at Dext.

Our behaviours guide us, and inform the way in which we communicate, collaborate and support each other. They are:
Be Diverse, be Courageous, be Considerate, be Transparent, be Focused, be Accountable, and above all, be Dexterous!