Principal Product Designer - London, United Kingdom - Square One Resources Limited

Square One Resources Limited

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Hybrid - Onsite 1-2 days a week in London

Salary/Rate:
Up to £750 per day INSIDE IR35

Start Date: 13/03/23

Job Type: 6 Month Contract

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our leading financial services clients They are currently looking for an experienced Principle Product Designer to join their team for a six-month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

Our user-centred approach keeps us passionate about delivering our customers what they need. We are focused on designing the most beautiful, accessible, and valuable experiences in complex financial systems.
You will create new and innovative design solutions that address the very particular needs of our users. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team working across all stages of the product lifecycle.

Our best designers champion user needs in their work, bringing project partners and team members with them to deliver intuitive and innovative experiences.

Deliver in a complex partner environment and leading on a wide range of large engagements
Lead the solution of larger-scale undefined problem spaces. For example, "How do portfolio managers share ideas, charts, and layouts with other users?"
Provide specialist advice to middle and senior management to resolve sophisticated issues
Demonstrate clear prioritisation and planning for activities to ensure timely delivery
Be an authority in one or more design fields, provide direction and support for your own team and the wider design team
Demonstrable experience in a similar role and able to show evidence of how the brand affects the approach to product design
Experience in guiding multi-disciplinary design teams

Required Skills/Experience

Proven track record in working with complex product design/agile environments (not art directors, graphic designers)
Ability to work end-to-end from discovery through to delivery
Ability to work autonomously following a brief and take direction from design leads
Ability to work well with the design system and existing patterns as their first point of call in solution design
Ability to deliver work and be very hands on, not strategic designers but able to point out strategic challenges/opportunities to management
Ability to push back and ask 'why'
Ability to balance pragmatism and purism
Ability to work in an immature agile environment
Ability to liaise and build great relationships with multiple mangers
Delivering clear updates to management on progress and blockers to design leads
Good Stakeholder management
Used to working in fast paced delivery environments
Work collaboratively with cross functional team
Ability to work with remote teams
Ability to work with or quickly adapt to using Figma as the Client's tool
A long history of successfully delivering project work within the complex enterprise industries
outstanding knowledge and experience in your own design field, as well as deep appreciation and understanding of all others

Disclaimer

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business.

Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.