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)