Product Designer

We have partnered with a motivated startup in the Automotive industry that is looking to bring a Product Designer to the team, the successful Product Designer will be joining 200+ employees based across London and parts of Europe. 

Their mission is simple, to create the best experience in the world for their end-users. Backed by some of Europe's biggest VCs and with nearly £50m raised to date, they are well on their way to success, with their next step being to expand their design team.

The Product Designer will report directly to the Head of Design who has over 15 years of experience of which they would like to share. The role will be a mixture of Research (40%), UX (40%), and UI (20%).

Responsibilities

• Practice user-centered focused design. Have the user at the heart of your thinking, can empathise by defining a user problem, create a job story, establish design goals and success metrics. Openly challenge assumptions and validate problems with research and data.
• Understanding of Design Systems for a digital Product. Being comfortable working on a responsive website, designing with a mobile-first perspective. In an interview show examples and explain how components are created and used.
• Show and apply Design and Product Principles in your work. Communicate work and demonstrate how you collect, process and respond to feedback.
• Contribute and maintain our style guide, working with Product Designers and Front-end developers to keep our Figma library up to date and website looking consistent.

Requirements

• 4.5+ years' experience working at a Digital Agency or Tech Company
• A case study, of either a user flow, feature or A/B experiment that shows the design process in-depth, including problem definition, research and evidence, wireframes, UI prototypes and production-ready designs
• Knowledge in using data to make informed decisions, this may include; running surveys, Google Analytics or equivalent tools, or user testing
• Competent in UI design and prototyping software (e.g. Sketch, InVision, AdobeCC )
• Maintained and added new components to a pattern library (e.g. Sketch, Framer, Figma)
• Manage the end-to-end design process, including the writing of handover specifications to developers

Benefits

• A competitive salary
• Equity in the company (share options)
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve
• Private pension scheme, salary sacrifice benefits (i.e. cycle to work), Travel Loan
• Flexible working for those that want to, you'll be able to work from home for the majority of the week, with up to 2 days max in the office. You’ll be eligible for a ‘home office allowance’ of up to £500 to help get set up with everything you need to succeed at home. We also have a new ‘work from anywhere for a month each year' policy in place should you wish to use it.
• We run a dog-friendly office, with free refreshments and a variety of breakout spaces.
• Private medical health insurance, subsidised gym membership, free access to mental-health coaching sessions

If you feel you have the experience listed, or know someone who does, and are interested in hearing more about this opportunity then please apply.

Here at Consortia, we have a number of Product Design positions open so even if this doesn't suit you, feel free to reach out for a chat about other opportunities.

Product Designer Salary - £45,000 - £50,000

Product Designer location - Office in London, flexible working options.