Contract Digital Product Designer (EU/UK-based)

YLD is a remote-first consultancy specializing in software engineering, product design, and data. They are seeking a highly experienced Digital Product Designer to join their Product Design team on a contract basis, focusing on UX and product strategy as well as visual design and UI skills.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• Significant experience in UX/UI design
• Ability to take the long-term vision and help define it into a product design strategy, composed of complex service and product design projects
• Knowledge of how to visualize responsive websites and applications, and the thought processes required
• Ability to make good structural design decisions for feature sets that are well-defined or limited in scope
• Deliver quality design work and inspire clients to work towards these standards
• Balance relatively complex user, business, and technical requirements to arrive at sound information-architecture designs
• Base visual outputs on solid visual design principles and proficiency in using the right tool for the job
• Build complex, accurate wireframes, following existing visual-design guidelines
• Collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product's functionality would work within an established visual design framework
• Define and document new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform
• Comfortable in the design software of choice, generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly
• Hands-on approach to User Research and Usability Testing
• Employ user feedback techniques to influence design decisions
• Significant work on and with design systems covering: audits, foundations, documentation, governance, variables, tokens and component creation
• Ability to work autonomously in a fully remote environment
• 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
• Understand the business as a whole, and identify proactively where impact can be bigger
• Challenge the team to think critically in solving problems
• Facilitate (or lead) effective problem-solving in meetings and group settings
• Participate in design critiques, and have own work critiqued
• Experience across designing for mobile and web user-focused applications, as well as denser, information-rich interfaces
• A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity and visual design
• Ability to talk about and clearly explain and show thought process, approach and strategy in connection to finished work
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, including any kind of official UX / UI training
• All written documents must be sent in English
• Experience working with, or a good knowledge of, implementing web accessibility
• Interest or experience in AI and open AI
• Coding ability (HTML, CSS, JS, Swift or any other language)