Designer IV
Location: UK Remote
Length: 9 Months
Rate: From £ + PAYE (Approx. £99k)
Hours: 9am-6pm
This client is a top 5 tech giant and owner of some of the world’s most popular social media platforms and instant messaging apps, connecting billions of people across the globe.
Summary:
The main function of a designer is to create designs, concepts and sample layouts based on design principles and concepts. A typical designer needs to have a high level of creativity and able to communicate their ideas to both internal and external clients. The ability to be flexible to client demands, work well under pressure and multi-task are required skills.
Job Responsibilities:
Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our users
Design flows and experiences that simplify and distil down complex actions into usable interfaces
Design new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems
Give and solicit feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually improve for quality
Drive a partnership with product managers, engineers, researchers and content designers in order to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch
Willingness to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts.
Skills and experience:
Experience building and shipping multiple features that are broad/ambiguous in scope and encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms.Interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people’s needs, plus consideration of how this product will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work.Visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, colour, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function.Strategic product thinking with experience in developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company.
