Senior Ui/ux Designer - Belfast, United Kingdom - Foods Connected

Foods Connected
Foods Connected
Verified Company
Belfast, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT US


Foods Connected is an award-winning cloud-based software platform that helps retailers and food companies across the world manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management.

Our software solutions are currently utilised by 10 of the largest food retailers in the world.

As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business.


At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset, and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy coming into the office every day working together and solving problems for our customers.

Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a Teams call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We're always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our expanding team in Northern Ireland. So, if you're driven, with a passion for developing simple software solutions, creating great user experiences, designing scalable solutions for real business challenges, and ensuring customer happiness then we're looking for you


IS THIS SOMETHING THAT INTERSTS YOU?


The Senior UI/UX Designer will be involved with the creation of multi-fidelity wireframes & visuals based on artefacts received from other members of the UX team.

A key focus will be creating and maintaining an industry leading design system, evangelising, and facilitating pixel perfect implementation in development via the creation of handoff specs and documentation.


Acting as an inspiration internally for user-centred visual design, this individual has a unique talent and passion for translating complex tasks into simple interactions, displays platform thinking with designs that scale without exponentially increasing overheads - driving ease of use as our key competitive advantage.

In addition, the Senior UI/UX Designer will understand the wider business their projects support and possesses excellent execution skills. They promote standards and best practices for fellow Designers and Developers regularly with minimum oversight beyond high-level direction.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Create agencygrade visuals for corporate and SAAS software.
  • Actively participate in the evolving UX/Product team strategy, discovering and piloting new tools and resources.
  • Ongoing, close collaboration with team members during the sprint including discussions and brainstorming activities as well as pairing with developers on design
  • Support the team as needed with visual design to help communicate and validate design ideas.
  • Deliver strong creative ideas with a problemsolving mindset
  • Keep abreast of current design trends and be able to discern between fads and future standards
  • Be the leading voice for a cohesive user experience via the consistent use of UI patterns
  • Inspire teams beyond good usability to user delight by promoting cuttingedge visual design
Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in design, digital media, or a related field, and 4 years' relevant experience.
  • 4+ years' experience in a UI/UX Design role.
Experience Required

To perform this job successfully, the UI/UX Designer should have experience with:

  • A portfolio of software design that demonstrates outstanding interaction design skills across multiple devices as well as a thorough understanding of graphic design, page layout and typography.
  • Creation of style guides and design systems.
  • WCAG accessibility standards
  • Producing a variety of UI deliverables such as iconography, typography, pixel perfect mockups, prototypes, animation etc. with a keen sense of when to choose the right tools to communicate the design
  • Knowledge of Agile UX and Lean UX methodologies and experience working in a collaborative, agile environment alongside UX designers & researchers
  • Advanced proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe XD, Figma, Framer, Axure or similar tools.
  • An understanding of Front-End Development, with direct experience optimizing design concepts around current technologies

BENEFITS:

  • Competitive Base Salary
  • Employee Performance Related Bonus
  • Clear Career Progression
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • Matched Employee Pension
  • Generous Holiday Package
  • Secure Company Hardware
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