Senior Visual/UI Designer
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary : £60000 – £65000/annum £3500 Car Allowance + 18% bonus
We are working with the largest retailer in Europe, who are currently seeking a talented and experienced Senior UI Designer to join their team.
Purpose of the role
Responsible for setting the visual design standard for new digital products within the business.
You will be working closely with UX Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, and Developers to enhance the customer experience, driving both acquisition and engagement in the process to aid commercial success for POL & enhance remuneration for Postmasters.
In your Senior capacity you'll act as a key escalation point for visual design decision making, carefully assessing how, why, and when to craft and refine new design paradigms across our products.
Principal accountabilities
Developing and detailing excellent visual designs, user-interfaces, and design specifications from creative concept to final QA
Vocally champion the customer, their needs and experience at every design decision
Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, standards and tools & act as a key design escalation point for visual design / user interface decisions
Working closely with a wide range of people from across the business to understand and interpret requirements, identify opportunities
Providing both verbal and written guidance to help developers implement your designs
Taking part in constructive critique sessions aimed at improving the quality of the team's outputs
Working closely with Product Owners and developers to ensure your designs are implemented effectively and supporting with rendering tests
Persuasively communicating design decisions, strategy and rationale
Keeping track of new ideas in visual design to be incorporated into the work and share with the team
Helping grow the team from a set of designers to a centre of design practice excellence, leading digital design within the business
Knowledge, experience and skills
Demonstrable Senior experience working as a visual/UI designer on digital products and services with a strong portfolio demonstrating your meticulous attention to detail
Proficient skills in common design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Adobe CC
Strong design skills and eye for detail, with a good understanding of typography, intuitive layouts and palate development
Experience with different platforms but specifically responsive web. Mobile app UI design experience an advantage
Ability to iterate quickly and refine solutions, while rationalising decisions against business requirements
Possess a passion for all things design and all things customer
Motivated self-starter; problem solver who enjoys creating something new
Experience of working in an Agile/Scrum environment with a focus on fast-paced delivery
Contributing relevant development of and maintaining updates to UI style guides and asset library
Experience in fintech and development/programming if even at a simple level, desirable
Salary and Benefits
Salary: £60,000-£65,000 PA
Car Allowance: £3,500
Bonus: 18% yearly based on personal and company performance
Annual leave: 27.5 days plus bank holidays
Pension: 5% employee / 9% employer
Life assurance: 4x annual salary plus a further 2x if you have financial dependants
For more information, please contact Sean Lewis on , or call (phone number removed)
More Information
- Address City of London, London
