Description:
This role follows a hybrid approach to working, allowing you to combine working from home with working in our modern offices. These discussions are between you and your manager to find the best pattern for you both! We will kit you out to work from home but know that working as a team is what makes us great and spending quality time together is essential for keeping us mission-aligned.
The Senior UI Designer will deliver end-to-end high complexity projects in a timely manner, effectively being able to prioritise business needs and dependencies cross-functionally. You will exhibit leadership qualities to help coach, inspire Associate Designers and mentor others, while being able to contribute as a team player through design execution. With a strong ability to scope and prioritise projects, you will help enhance ways of working with stakeholders, managers, and team members.
Reporting directly to the Design Manager, within Product Design, the Senior UI Designer will:
- Work closely with UX designers, thinking strategically cross-platform and across the product ecosystem, ensuring your outputs are customer-centred
- You will be responsible for your own projects, taking ownership for both consistency and UI elevation
- Work with other members of the UI team to implement and maintain our design system, striving to bring value and big-picture to thinking to this extensive project
- Share knowledge with those around you, both inside and outside of the team, on UI standard methodologies, new developments... anything that can inspire and insight positive change!
- You will build successful relationships with fellow designers, our research and insights teams, product managers, marketing executives, developers, business analysts and solutions architects
- Continue to evolve interaction frameworks and patterns based on brand guidelines and help drive adoption of Design Systems components across the entire business
- Communicate ideal states and strategic concepts through storytelling and negotiating techniques to showcase designs and create alignment with cross-functional stakeholders and Design team members across the business
- Five years of experience in UI Design or Product Design in digital
- Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Graphic design, or other relevant field, or industry equivalent experience
- An amazing online portfolio which demonstrates both process and excellent creative execution where it’s obvious you pay attention to the details
- Experience working with UI pattern libraries and design systems, and appreciation for their role in creating a cohesive product
- Experience in interaction design, and an appreciation for the tactile nature of using a product
- Experience with motion to delight customers by bringing designs to life is a plus
- Experience working closely with developers and strong focus on bringing designs to live / understanding of how to handover designs and see them through to implementations
- Effective communicator, storyteller, presenter, and negotiator while being receptive to feedback
- Self-motivated, organised and driven to work efficiently with minimal direction and provide strategic insights to managers, leadership, peers, and team members
- Ability to work well with ambiguity, learn, and adapt in a fast-paced, evolving Agile environment
- Accessibility is at the core of your own design principles and process
- Mastery of design tools such as Figma, Miro, Adobe CS, Zeplin.
- Be the subject matter expert and have deep product knowledge
- Strong advocate of design process, workshops, and methodologies
- Strong knowledge in understanding technical limitations, while balancing business needs to drive change through innovation and cross-functional partnerships
- Embody our Design and Product Principles and methodologies to help elevate quality of craft throughout the organisation and be an active participant in reviewing designs
- Please include your portfolio in your application!