Remote Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join ustwo as a senior product designer to contribute to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives through digital products.

Requirements

• A Design Generalist: Whilst you may have developed a specialism you have a range of typography, layout and information visualisation skills with a working understanding of lean design processes, and iterative prototyping using common design software
• A critical design thinker: Able to make the distinction between “good” and “great” work and can design flows and experiences that are intuitive and delightful. You have developed a point of view about your work
• Current in your practice: You have a good working understanding in user-centred design, testing, research usability principles, techniques and methodologies. You keep up with the latest trends in design and technology
• Highly Collaborative: Able to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams of designers, developers and product managers using Agile and Lean principles
• Passionate about innovating through design: Bringing original thinking, strong design practice and advocating for the user
• Think holistically about the big picture when designing a product: whilst being detail-oriented and delivery-focused
• A clear communicator: Capable of conveying ideas and breakdown concepts clearly to a diverse range of stakeholders (verbally and written)
• Open to sharing: Whether that be your thoughts, ideas and work in-progress
• Want to grow: You seek out opportunities to learn, advocating good feedback with those who you work with
• Resilient: Can handle pressure and work in a dynamic and fast-moving environment
• Adaptable: You thrive in ambiguity and are comfortable switching contexts and able to apply design practice across a range of industries and different deliverables and goals

Responsibilities

• Explore and communicate design concepts for digital products through artefacts like sketches, user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes
• Validate design concepts by eliciting user feedback, measuring usability, considering market analysis and balancing against technical constraints/opportunities
• Use prototyping tools to convey the movement and functionality of concepts whilst also creating moments of delight
• Create ‘looks like/works like’ prototypes that help tell a project’s story with industry-standard design, prototyping and handover tools
• Engage clients, stakeholders, and your team to ensure your proposed design fits business goals and technical constraints in addition to user needs
• Understand and (where appropriate) challenge business requirements to champion user needs, as a way to further promote product and market strategy
• Facilitate and participate in workshops and discussions to promote the communication of ideas
• Participate in design research, user research and validation testing
• Partner side-by-side with engineers to bring designs to life and to quickly resolve challenges
• Bring systems thinking to create robust design systems that can scale effectively
• Work within but also adapt and evolve a client’s brand to current digital standards

Benefits

• Enjoy 22 days of annual leave, plus an extra 3 days off over the Christmas period to relax and recharge
• Your well-being matters to us! That's why we provide a comprehensive suite of self-care benefits, including Private Healthcare Insurance, a Headspace subscription, and mental health leave to support you every step of the way
• Invest in your growth! We offer a personal budget and dedicated time for Learning & Development so you can thrive in your career journey
• As an Employee-Owned Trust (EOT), everyone here is a partner, which means profit sharing is a perk for all
• We love celebrating milestones! Expect a special work anniversary gift as we mark your achievements together