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Our client is a city centre based SAAS scale up company who have been building in stealth mode for the last number of years. They’ve big plans for 2025 and beyond and they’re now in a position to start to grow out their teams.
This role is for an experienced UI / UX Designer to join them as their first Design hire. In this hybrid role, you will be required to attend the office twice a week, offering flexibility to manage your work-life balance.
Role Overview
In this role you will bring your strong UX / UI design experience to contribute to the development of the product and campaigns around it. You should have a passion for design and the ability to create modern and engaging visual content. The product helps customers streamline bookings, payments & marketing activities so they can focus on delivering for their customers.
This is a versatile role that requires flexibility in collaborating with all of the different teams across the business. As the first in-house designer, you'll help lay the foundation for growing a design team while handling both product and marketing design responsibilities.
What You’ll Do:
* Champion design excellence, elevate our design standards, and inspire a culture of exceptional, user-centric design
* Work independently and collaboratively with Product and Marketing teams on experiences, campaigns, graphic concepts, assets, and visual treatments
* Own the design processes end-to-end for new products and features
* Create UI mockups and click-through demos
* Build and maintain a future-proof design system
* Maintain design file integrity and ensure alignment with production applications
* Assist the marketing team with new product launches, technical reports, infographics and marketing campaigns
* Work on web and mobile design
* Create concepts
* Conduct user and stakeholder interviews, user surveys
* Create user flows and mindmaps
Skills & Experience:
* 3+ years of experience in UX/UI design, creating and shipping digital products for web and mobile, ideally in a start up or scale up environment
* Strong portfolio demonstrating your identity, expertise, and work process
* Experience with the full-cycle design process; starting from research, usability testing, deep interviews, competitor & market analysis. We expect to see examples of the same in your portfolio
* Expertise in Figma, Illustrator, and image editing software such as Photoshop
* Experience with prototyping to explore and communicate design solutions
* Know how to brief clients, present your designs, and hold workshops with customers
* Have extensive experience working with UI
* Are an independent team member and don’t need micromanagement of your tasks
* Are aware of recent design trends and styles
* Are flexible and always can offer clients several approaches to meet their needs
* Are able to demonstrate to clients that the vision & designs you’ve presented match their business needs & your expertise
* Comfort with fast-paced, iterative product development
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, including presentation abilities
Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other minority groups tend to only apply when they feel they check every box. If you think you have what it takes for this position, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Design and Information Technology
Industries
* Software Development, IT System Custom Software Development, and Technology, Information and Media
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