Senior UX Designer

Summary

Join Sonalake, a software partnering company, as a Senior Designer to collaborate with a team of designers, engineers, product owners, and project managers to create exceptional user experiences. You will conduct user research, lead design workshops, translate findings into prototypes, and ensure designs align with user needs and business goals. This role requires 3-5 years of experience in UX/UI design within a software development organization, strong communication skills, and a passion for user-centered design. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, working on projects across various sectors, and will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's design processes and innovation initiatives.

Requirements

• Have 3-5 years experience as a UX designer, UI designer, product designer, interaction designer, or similar role within a software development organisation
• Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary development team to lead and deliver on design outputs
• Have shaped and led design workshops with clients
• Love design thinking, human-centred design, human-computer interaction and fluency in the latest technology trends but more importantly, able to extract the best bits for adaptation
• Deal well with ambiguity and abstract design challenges, framing a problem to explore potential solutions
• Clearly communicate design rationale and decisions, tailoring the approach and deliverables to the client, project, and team needs
• Have broad experience across sectors, working for customers with different UX maturity levels
• Enjoy data visualisation and information design
• Are a great communicator in English - both written and spoken
• Are based in Poland, Slovakia, or Hungary
• Can start in May

Responsibilities

• Conduct user research, develop personas, user stories, capture workflows and determine information architecture
• Prepare, lead and participate in collaborative design workshops, translate findings into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes
• Balance user needs with our client’s business goals, market viability and technical feasibility
• Plan and run user testing sessions to validate designs
• Create UX and UI design artefacts at appropriate levels of fidelity
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team that includes front-end engineers, product owners, project managers and executives
• Help evolve and improve our design processes with a user-centred approach

Benefits

• Remote-first approach with many team-building activities. You can work from our offices in Dublin, Poznan or Bratislava, or work on a fully remote or hybrid basis. We believe in a healthy work-life balance
• Every Sonalaker gets a training budget and paid training days every year to upskill. This covers courses, training, books or conferences
• We’ve a flat organisational structure with an emphasis on open, honest communication. There are no siloes, no hierarchies and no barriers
• We focus on innovation: we run projects to evaluate new frameworks, create tools for internal use, contribute to the open source community and research new ways to use existing products in new problem domains
• Indefinite period employment contract