Product Designer

NewDay

London

What you will deliver

  • Research activities. Conducting user research and testing to gain a deep understanding of our users. Reviewing data with Analysts to understand and measure behaviours. Conducting comparative analysis to understand feature gaps. Review existing journeys to identify areas of optimisation.

  • Experience mapping. Understanding our users’ goals, desires, and expectations. Mapping the experience, journeys and flows to help us prioritise pain-points and opportunities.

  • Ideating. Working with your squad to develop ideas and prioritise. Plan and facilitate co-creation workshops.

  • Crafting user interfaces. Translating your concepts into appealing UI design wireframes and clickable prototypes with a strong focus on Responsive Web Design principles. Provide a design spec to aid in implementation.

  • Testing and learning. Using a variety of testing approaches and tactics; card sorting, clickable prototypes, usability studies, tree testing, think out loud studies, A/B and multi variant testing.

  • Measuring and iterating. Measuring the outcomes of your work with your squad. Iterating and prioritising identified areas of improvement.

  • Planning and Prioritising. Working closely with the squad to plan and prioritise new features and functionality, optimisations, and areas of focus together.

  • Review implementation. Working together with the developers you will aid in implementation and review the final output before it’s shipped.

  • Growing the design system. Designing new components, layouts, grids, flows and interactions which will feed into our design system and component library.

  • Evolving! We’re continually looking to improve and evolve our process by trying new techniques and removing obsolete ones to ultimately ship better products.

Skills and Experience

Essential

  • You can demonstrate strong end-to-end product design competencies. You’ll have shipped numerous features and iterations, perhaps across multiple products. You’ll have been a product designer for some time.

  • A natural collaborator – We highly encourage collaboration within the team, and believe it is a core requirement for this role. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team made up of Product Owners, Developers and Analysts, as well as adopting feedback from the wider Product Design team and other business partners.

  • Experienced knowledge of design and research tools. You’ll have mastered the likes of Figma, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite, UserZoom and MS Office. Nice to have – Dovetail and Frontitude.

  • Knowledge of Agile methodologies. You’ll have experience in working within scrum teams and aware of the ceremonies that take place and are comfortable participating.

  • Clear and confident communicator that can present, demo, and articulate their design decisions to your squad and to our senior business partners.

  • Understanding of Accessibility standards (WCAG AA). To help us strive towards shipping products that are inclusive and accessible to everyone.

  • Self-motivated and curious. You’ll be self-driven and proactive to take ownership of your design decisions. You’ll love asking the why’s and questions that truly understand the users’ needs and business objectives. And lastly, a desire to learn and develop your craft.

Desirable

  • API Mapping

  • Enterprise UX

  • Service Design

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