Hybrid Lead Software Product Designer

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About the role

  • Collaborate with the Product Design, Product Management, Engineering & Marketing teams to help conceptualise and deliver outstanding and award-winning software products and services.
  • Create and execute user research strategies (both primary and secondary), which yield critical insight and help shape project direction.
  • Advocate for the end user, ensuring your team’s work is influenced from a deep understanding of users’ goals, needs, pain points, behaviours and contexts.
  • Develop user stories and use cases, taking user needs and converting them to product requirements.
  • Design/Ideate both collaboratively and individually.
  • Lead and participate in design critiques, ideation sessions, and design workshops.
  • Develop wireframes & interactive prototypes.
  • Regularly perform UX testing and use both qualitative and quantitative insights to refine the design.
  • Present your work to your team and project stakeholders.
  • Work with the team to measure the impact of designs on customers and business goals.
  • Responsible for maintaining and evolving our software design systems.
  • Act as a mentor and design partner to other designers – offering guidance and elevating the craft, process, and design thinking across the team.

Requirements

  • 7+ years’ experience within UX/Product Design working on software (desktop, mobile or web)
  • Degree or relevant qualification in Product Design, User Experience, User Research, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Design or a related field.
  • Strong portfolio that clearly demonstrates your skills and process.
  • Excellent visual design skills and attention to detail.
  • Typography, iconography, and component-based design systems would be beneficial.
  • Understanding of front-end principles (HTML, CSS, React components) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), and platform guidelines (Web, iOS, Android).
  • Using multiple data sources and research methods (e.g., usability tests, Analytics, A/B testing) to help measure KPI’s to support design decisions.
  • Setting and measuring performance metrics/KPI’s for the User Experience.
  • Balancing Design with Scrum/Agile methodologies.
  • Highly Proficient in Figma for interface design, prototyping, and collaboration. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud tools (e.g., Illustrator, Photoshop), Axure, or Framer is a plus.
  • Growth mindset, self-motivated, adventurous, and naturally collaborative.

Benefits

  • flexible/hybrid working
  • company pension
  • life insurance
  • private healthcare
  • Health Cash Plan
  • enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
  • employee purchase scheme
  • group bonus scheme
  • company music events
  • offsite company parties
  • free lunch in the canteen
  • company training sessions
  • encourage personal development

Job title

Lead Software Product Designer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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