Davy is hiring Senior UI/UX designer

About us

From day one, you’ll notice there is something special about working at Davy. Our success is built on nearly 100 years of forging strong relationships with our clients and developing the careers of Ireland’s future business leaders.

Established in 1926, the Davy Group sits at the heart of wealth and capital in Ireland, providing a broad range of services to high-net-worth individuals, self-directed investors, small-to-medium enterprises, credit unions, corporations, and domestic & international institutional investors.

Our culture is shaped around three values, which are at the heart of everything we do: client success, one Davy, and building a proud legacy. Sharing the same goals, we work together to deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients. As part of a team of over 900, you will be encouraged to learn and to grow, both professionally and personally.

An exciting opportunity has opened up in our Information Systems department. We are looking for a Senior UI/UX designer to design software and platforms that meet our client’s needs. You should be able to lead workshops and gather the business requirements, any technical limitations, and translate these into coherent designs utilising user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes.

In the role, the successful candidate will:

• Work directly with product owners, end-users, and development teams to define, refine, and implement new processes and products.
• Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
• Work with business stakeholders in defining user requirements and processes.
• Work closely with F/E developers to deliver excellent design solutions across all devices
• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, mock-ups and proof of concepts (POCs) optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Consider existing applications, evaluate their UX effectiveness and improve them.
• Track and measure analytics to inform UX development
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
• Comply with the Risk and Compliance frameworks, policies and procedures associated with the role.

About you

We are looking for somebody who has the following background and skills:

• 5+ years’ experience with UI / UX design.
• Link to an online portfolio or PDF of your resume.
• BA/BS in Graphic Design, Architecture, Product Design, Industrial Design, or a related conceptual design field or have additional relevant work experience
• Extensive experience in applying UX design best practices to design solutions
• Deep understanding design approaches, including mobile-first and responsive design.
• A solid grasp of user-centred design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability, and accessibility concerns.
• Experienced in influencing design and shaping organisational strategy and priorities.
• Collaborate with teams in building digital services whilst understanding and prioritising user needs, navigating technology constraints and meeting delivery timescales
• Experienced in aligning multiple channels, services, and products into a coherent, inclusive experience for customers
• Excellent communication skills and able to convey concepts to all levels of audience (C-Level to non-technical user)
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and client engagements to validate designs.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Experienced in crafting service and product ideas and offerings.
• Experience of the Product lifecycle and assessment approach.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Experience creating wireframes, low-fidelity, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes with industry standard design tools (e.g. Sketch, Adobe XD, Invision, Balsamiq).
• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently and to disregard irrelevant information – to identify similarities and differences in visual configurations
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Ability to prototype in HTML, CSS or JavaScript a plus but not essential for this role.

What we offer

We offer a range of benefits and experiences to support your professional and personal growth, whatever your career stage. Our benefits are not just a number. Yes, we offer competitive salary, annual performance-related discretionary bonus, annual flexible benefits, employer pension contribution, and multiple insurance coverage. But more than that, we focus on developing our people to be their best, professionally and personally.

Training support provided by award-winning Learning & Development Team, extensive sports & social programmes (including free on-site gym & fitness studio), flexible working options, employee assistance programme, enhanced leave options, and social & community care initiatives are just some of the ways our people can empower themselves to be their best.

Important Information

Davy is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. We value diversity both in background and in experience. You might not meet all of the requirements outlined in the above job description, but we would still like to hear from you. We review all applications received.

Appointment to this role is subject to the candidate's eligibility to work in Ireland.

Where agency assistance is required, our Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to us by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Davy Group is a member of the Bank of Ireland Group.