Senior Product Designer / UX Designer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Product Designer / UX DesignerLocation: RemoteStart Date: Immediate StartSalary: Salary to be agreed based on experienceJob Type:Permanent, Full TimeBenefits:Defined career path, stock options, company pension, and excellent working culture.About Vacancy Filler:Vacancy Filler has recently been acquired by Acendre, a leading global provider of highly secure talent management software for enterprise and government clients and eLearning solutions through its Inquisiq brand. Vacancy Filler is a SaaS-based Global TalentAcquisition solutions provider with offices inNorth America, Australia and the UK.Otto Berkesis Acendres, Chief Executive Officer. Otto has an extensive background in innovation including co-founding Xbox, leading the development of DirectX graphics, and building HBOs streaming services. He and the Acendre team are passionateabout the power of innovation and the opportunity to provide organisations with fundamentally better ways to realize the full potential of their most critical resource: their people.www.vacancyfiller.comwww.acendre.comAbout the roleAs aSenior Product Designer / UX Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the design process, from concept development to inspecting pixels just before launch. You will rely on a full range of design skills from interaction designto product design to prototyping. This role represents design on multidisciplinary project teams, working with product managers and developers. Your job is to help inform product vision and foster positive digital experiences for our user base.RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create elegant and useful design systems that define the digital experience across our HR Software as a Service platform.
• Distill complex interactions into clear, understandable design solutions and communicate them to stakeholders.
• Help create end-to-end design experiences, interaction models, and design systems.
• Work closely with your fellow designers, developers, product managers and audience research analysts to transform data into defensible design solutions.
• Facilitate design thinking and co-creation sessions across the organization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prototype and test design directions and solutions
• Help tell the story of our product user experiences through storyboarding, user journeys, and other storytelling methods.
• Work closely with developers to help build prototypes and refine working products.
• Demonstrate an ability to balance the innovative with the pragmatic.
• Effectively work across multiple, related teams, systems, or projects within the division.

QUALIFICATIONSREQUIRED SKILLS

• Expertise in working with interface design tools like Sketch or Figma.
• Experience working with web, mobile, iOS and Android design patterns, informed by Apples HIG and Googles Material Design standards, respectively.
• Understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG, Section 508, etc) and ability to design for these
• Ability to tell compelling stories about your work and present it confidently to your team, stakeholders, and executives.
• Strong written and verbal communication capabilities.
• Passion for designing products and systems that aim to create a more engaging and rewarding work experience.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• The strong mobile design aesthetic and a passion to explore that aesthetic on NPRs mobile products.
• Working knowledge of standards in mobile programming frameworksin particular, React
• Proven track record of designing and helping to ship successful products and services.
• Digital prototyping experience.
• Experience designing across multiple devices and contexts (desktop, mobile, accessories).
• Experience working in an agile project methodology.
• Curiosity for emerging technologies and processes, and willingness to contribute relevant findings back to the team.

Does this sound like you If so, we want to hear from youWe OfferWe are an equal opportunity employer and evaluate applicants on merit regardless of their age, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or family situation.We have an entrepreneurial environment where their ideas matter, where theyre rewarded with competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, pension scheme, company night outs, skills development & plenty of recognition for their great work.You will benefit from joining a company that offers you a huge potential for progression in a company that has realistic aims to be the best in its field & at the same time opportunity to gain exposure to emerging technologies.