Product Designer - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Candidate

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Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Product Designer - Manchester - £25,000 - £29,000 - Technology

Be part of our client's transformation Make your mark on this thriving learning platform as their Product Designer and some great benefits
Our Client has been transforming the learning technologies industry by building an accessible and engaging learning platform. They're revolutionising the market and focusing on skills, personalisation, and an industry leading user experience. They have been backed by a business that has been operating in learning and development software for two decades.

As a product designer you will be responsible for exploring product problems, developing solutions that solve these problems and implementing changes based on the users' feedback and the products business strategy.

Whilst working with a high level of dedication to their SaaS platform to secure a sublime experience. Collaborating with engineering, marketing and other colleagues, working in a cross functional and distributed team.

From wire framing to designing end to end flows and prototypes, you will design their platform to solve problems in a simple and elegant way across all devices for a broad spectrum of business users.

Responsibilities:

You will join an establishing team focused on our core transformative softwareasaservice learning platform.
You will act as a member of the product team working closely with engineers, project, endusers, and marketing to design and build the most delightful and inspiring experience for our customers and prospects.
Deliver intuitive and visually compelling designs with a consistent, unified look and feel and behaviour across all screens of the platform.
Pair with developers to build simple iterations that will continually deliver value to businesses around the world.
Provide concepts, prototypes, annotated wireframes, and screen flow diagrams for brandnew features and improvements, and see them through to complete design compositions.
Help clients and executive management visualise new concepts through UI mockups and videos.
Be involved throughout the design and delivery process from discovery and research to interaction design, and testing of actual UX.
Create UI pattern libraries/style guides for use across the platform.
Write and maintain user stories for the product, including acceptance criteria.
Interview users and conduct user testing.

What we're looking for:

We're looking for a talented digital product designer who loves to solve problems and be challenged. You'll have familiarity with quick prototyping tools (i.e. Figma/Sketch/Adobe XD) alongside more fully featured design solutions and be able to demonstrate up to date UX best practice to produce elegant and clean platform design.

We're looking out for:

A portfolio featuring great examples of digital product design work.
Strong design skills across mobile and web platforms.
The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and clearly articulate design decisions.
The ability to understand technical implications in design decisions.
The ability to take ownership of design process and work as selfdirected member of the engineering team.
Strong UX focus and understanding of human behaviour.
Clean visual design sense.
Appreciation of visual hierarchy, white spacing and typography.
To be a constant learner. You will be always growing both personally and with the team.
Ability to produce UI/UX enhancement plans including competitive analysis, persona development, user journeys, concept modelling, wireframing, and navigation strategy.

The important part

the benefits:

Huge progression opportunities within an expanding and fastmoving tech business.
An elegant and vibrant office in Manchester.
Truly flexible work from home and/or office approach.
Your choice of Surface or MacBook device.
Half day Fridays
24 days' holiday, plus public holidays.
Relaxed dress code.
Unbeatable social events.
Professional development budget of £500 per year.
Employermatched pension scheme (4%).

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