UI Designer - Southampton, United Kingdom - Alliants

Alliants

Verified Company

Southampton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We're Hiring a UI Designer (Services)**Location: *Southampton (Flexible remote)

Salary:
£25,000 - £35,000 DOE

Alliants is on a mission to build the best digital experiences for the world's most respected luxury hotel, travel and retail brandsand we're seeking a
UI Designer to join our expanding
Services team.

Can you see yourself thriving in an innovative, growing SaaS company?
Join us on our journey, we are all-in on building the future of digital experiences

The role:

Work with the Lead UX Designer, Consultants, Business Analysts and Developers to create both functional and visually appealing designs for written and technical solutions that address our customers' needs.

Use creativity and an eye for detail - along with technical knowledge - to develop exceptional customer experiences.
To deliver UI mockups, prototypes, MVPs and final solutions. Translate customer needs into user-friendly, functionally appropriate designs to have a direct impact on the customer's user experience.

Some key area's you'll be working on:

Attend meetings with clients and/or and internal stakeholders to understand business goals, capture requirements, gather feedback and present findings/data-informed design solutions.
Produce UI sketches, wireframes, designs and clickable prototypes for testing and communicating ideas to stakeholders.
Participate in development sprints to provide UI expertise and qualitycontrol for design throughout the development process.
Collect and interpret user insights into delightful experiences.
Working closely with key stakeholders to transcribe their vision for the app into credible and appealing UI designs.
Develop and maintain wireframes and clickable prototypes.
Working with designers & frontend developers to incorporate visuals and brand identities into client solutions/projects.
Managing digital design assets for client projects.

Important to have:

Proven commercial work experience developing responsive user experiences; from wireframes to high fidelity prototypes across web and native (iOS and Android) mobile projects for frontend development.
A portfolio which demonstrates ability and technical knowledge across a range of clients and/or industries.
Experience in understanding user needs and translating them into compelling final designs and solutions.
Experience implementing design choices based on user and stakeholder feedback.
Experienced and comfortable working with multidisciplinary teams, from discovery through to development, working alongside project managers, developers and other designers within an Agile team to improve the usability of solutions and other features.
Comfortable using industrystandard design software e.g. Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe CC, etc.
Knowledge and an understanding of accessibility standards for mobile apps and web.

Advantageous to have:

Background experience in Product / Solution Design (UX/UI or similar)
Interest/experience in Service Design
Educated to a degree level or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline (possibly in the creative sector).
Relevant training and/or certifications in UX/UI Design
Understanding of analytics/data has used quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions.
An understanding of the psychology behind user behaviour.
Familiar or experienced with frontend development languages e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript.
Ability to conduct fast "quickfire" research and testing as well as detailed; A/B testing, user interviews, usability testing, etc.
Experience planning and conducting user research, including designing, facilitating, and documenting internal and external workshops to gather user feedback.

Who are Alliants and what do we do?
What's in it for you?
We're a friendly, mission-driven bunch that values inclusion, learning and development, and transparency

Check out our benefits:
A competitive salary
Up to 10% annual bonus
Remote & flexible working
25 days holiday + public holidays
Generous level of stock options
Private healthcare
10x Life Insurance up to £500k
Monthly takeaway allowance
Pension with matched employer contribution
£1,500 training and development budget each year

What's important to us?

We are allin to supporting healthy hybrid and flexible working arrangements, we've made our HQ Southampton a great place to work. When you come to our HQ you'll find full stocked kitchens (amazing coffee), enough snacks to start a tuck shop, comfy spaces and we're dog friendly
Our workforce is mostly International and remote, but we do our best to keep everyone connected, join our weekly exercise classes, lunch & learns, and other socials
We plant a Great British Oak each time we have a new starter, so as Alliants grows, our forests grow, and our training and development budgets help you grow too.

Why work at Alliants?