Product Designer

Job Description

Product Designer, Brand CreatorRemote, with ability to travel to Edinburgh City CentreABOUT USWe are a marketing technology company, enabling global drinks brands such as Bacardi, Diageo and Carlsberg to transform the way they support their customers with printed and digital marketing.Our innovative Brand Creator application enables sales reps for major drinks brands to quickly and easily create high-quality marketing materials that utilise the power of their global brands with customised and relevant messaging. The benefit to our clientsis increased brand visibility and sales, through fantastic looking menus, printed and digital marketing.Brand Creator is currently used in over 30 countries, and we continue to expand globally to achieve our vision of becoming the global market leader in our industry.OUR CULTUREOur culture reflects our rapid growth and our ambition to be the global market leader. That means that were a fast-paced organisation where every day is different, and the work is challenging. We appreciate that the scale-up experience isnt for everyone.ABOUT THE ROLEWere looking for someone to join our Product Team as a Product Designer to support the team with creative, intuitive, and beautiful UX solutions for a wide range of user and business problems. We have recently built a new product team to help us overhaul theproduct experience and set us up for huge growth over the next few years! We are just getting started with a lot of exciting changes and were looking for someone ambitious to grow with us. Your work will help us to create an industry-leading product thattransforms the way our users do their work.The role will be varied, from conducting user research through to creating high-fidelity prototypes for production. The right candidate will be an excellent problem solver, highly analytical and creative, as well as possessing a strong technical understandingto produce technically feasible and responsive UI designs and reusable components. Experience designing responsive websites or apps is essential, ideally with some experience in task-based apps or websites and/or eCommerce.RESPONSIBILITES* Design intuitive and elegant UI & UX solutions to support the product evolution and business requirements* Produce visual / UI designs for product feature updates and brand related projects, across multiple work-streams* Prototype high fidelity prototypes, and communicate the detail of these interactions to development though detailed product documentation* Contribute to the growing UI design system, design language and vision of the product* Create user flow diagrams and wireframes that capture essential user journeys and meet business requirements and technical constraints* Carry out UX design research and workshops to analyse problems and ideate solutions with the product team and stakeholders* Prepare and perform usability and concept tests with users for feedback and validation* Conduct user interviews and surveys to gather insights into user needs and behaviour* Synthesise user feedback/research results to extract key findings and insights* Work collaboratively with other team members to come to the best solutions possible, utilising the teams knowledge, skills and creativity to get the best results!SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS* Experience designing wireframes, concepts and high-fidelity UI designs for websites and/or applications* An excellent understanding of branding and its place in UI/product design* An ability to empathise with users and a strong understanding of user-centred design, demonstrating the ability to solve user problems with intuitive UX solutions* Skills in icon and illustration design, with an excellent eye for typography, spacing, colour and general UI design principles* Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and finesse in graphic and user interface design* Experience using Figma, Miro, Creative Cloud, Sketch (or similar) for creating wireframes and high-fidelity UI designs, prototypes and components* An understanding of atomic design principles and how to apply them in a design system* At least some understanding of HTML/CSS/responsive web layout and how this affects UI design decisions* Great organisation and communication skills to plan and manage workload, and communicate updates and progress effectively with the team* Self-motivated and proactive with a keen desire to learn and grow with the team.* Big picture thinking - ability to think through how changes to the product design will deliver value for our business and contribute to prioritisation to ensure we delivers value early.* Outcome-driven team-player: Show the desire to get great outcomes for our users and therefore our product and business as a whole!Bonus points if you have;* Experience in a fast-paced tech company/start-up* Experience related to design applications, B2B software and/or ecommerce* Some candidates may see this list and feel discouraged because they dont match all the requirements. 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