Contract Senior Digital Product Designer (UI)

• 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. 

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