Contract Digital Product Designer (EU/UK-based)

• You have significant experience in UX/UI design;
• You can take the long-term vision and help define it into a product design strategy, composed of complex service and product design projects; 
• You know how to visualise responsive websites and applications, and the thought processes required; 
• You make good structural design decisions for feature sets that are well-defined or limited in scope;  
• You’ll deliver quality design work and inspire our clients to work towards these standards; 
• You can balance relatively complex user, business, and technical requirements to arrive at sound information-architecture designs;  
• When it comes to visual outputs, you always base your decisions on solid visual design principles and are proficient in using the right tool for the job; 
• You can happily and expertly build complex, accurate wireframes, following existing visual-design guidelines; 
• You expertly collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product’s functionality would work within an established visual design framework; 
• You can define and document new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform;  
• You’re comfortable in the design software of your choice, but generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly, should it be required (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Framer, Adobe XD, Marvel, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.);  
• You have a hands-on approach to User Research and Usability Testing; 
• You employ user feedback techniques to influence design decisions. 
• You have done significant work on and with design systems covering: audits, foundations, documentation, governance, variables, tokens and of course component creation.

Non-technical competencies:

• Your ability to work autonomously means that you’re equally comfortable working in a fully remote environment, as you would be in an office environment;  
• You can work closely with the rest of the product team, including front and back-end engineers, and PO/PM to ensure implementation is of a high standard and quality; 
• Your experience allows you to understand the business as a whole, and to identify proactively where your / our impact can be bigger; 
• You’re able to challenge your team to think critically in solving problems;  
• You can facilitate (or lead) effective problem-solving in meetings and group settings, or whenever needed; 
• You’re  happy and comfortable taking part in design critiques, and also in having your own work critiqued; 
• You have a combination of experience across designing for mobile and web user-focused applications, as well as denser, information-rich interfaces. 

What we'd like to see from you:

• A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity and visual design
• Be able to talk about and clearly explain and show your thought process, approach and strategy in connection to your finished work
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have
• All written documents must be sent in English

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll also get:

• The chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast-moving business

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Interview & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (~1h30)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don’t discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. Likewise, we also offer a remote-first working environment, meaning that flexible working and work-life balance come as standard for all employees.