UX Designer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Dayshape

Dayshape

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you get a sense of satisfaction from crafting seamless user experiences? In this role you will help us towards our aim of making Dayshape the most beautiful, intuitive and useful product on the market.

As part of our product design team you will enjoy the opportunity to invest in your career development in a values-driven culture that welcomes new ideas.

About us
We're an award-winning enterprise software scale-up with high ambitions for growth.

Dayshape is an intelligent planning platform that allows professional services firms to coordinate their workforce in a way that boosts productivity and profitability, while also improving people's working lives by providing clarity and empowerment.

Our customers include prestigious firms from the Big Four and global top 10 in accounting.

As a company, we live our values every day and we're committed to making sure our friendly and inclusive environment grows with us.

You will

Working closely with our Tech Leads and Product Managers you will be completing UX design activities across the software development lifecycle.

This includes leading the creative thinking of how we design the best experience for our users and shaping our overall design strategy.

Key responsibilities:

Complete research, using available data, to understand user journeys and inform feature requirements
Prioritise and plan a design requirement backlog and lay out timelines/process for feature design
Combine UX thinking with execution and design mockups for new or enhanced features
Enable development by codifying and maintaining the visual language for engineers to follow
Review and test development against interaction and visual design specifications
Partner with Product Manager to monitor feedback for recently release features
Lead the creation and promotion of design guidelines and standards across the product

About you

A natural problem solver who enjoys understanding complex user journeys and creating visual solutions from design concept through to a live platform
Able to see the big picture and collaborate across a wide team
Enjoy working within an ambiguous environment where we don't have established ways of working
Strong design documentation skills e.g. wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
Able to flex between quick and scrappy lofi and polished hifi depending on the situation
Competent working with UX software tools (e.g. Sketch, Figma, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer)
Wellversed in Design Thinking and Practice theory
Experienced with complex enterprise software and able to quickly grasp new concepts
Knowledge of Digital Accessibility best practices and tooling
An excellent and supportive communicator, able to consider the broader impact of your design
Motivated by learning new things and using those to make a positive difference
Great at asking awkward questions, kindly

What you'll get

Salary c.£45,000 depending on experience
At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
Paid four week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality
Income protection and death in service cover
Matched 5% autoenrolment workplace pension scheme
EMI options as part of our employee share options scheme
Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
Innovation Week twice a year a chance to experiment and work offproject
Weekly All Hands meeting for inspiration and overcommunication
Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of inperson and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, online games, D&D, and athome cocktail classes
Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company

Working Details
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week).

We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be flexible around this, just let us know.

Our office is in Edinburgh City Centre.

We're looking for somebody who could work on a hybrid basis, with time in the office likely to be a minimum of 2-4 times a month (to facilitate in-person whiteboard sessions etc).

Join the team
This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done.

We're doing well, but there's lots more to do in order to maintain the high bar and pace that we've set.