At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design process from concept to detailed specs, ensuring user needs are met.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company that values creativity and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and user advocacy.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by designing user-friendly experiences for diverse audiences.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in product design with a strong portfolio; mobile-first design expertise required.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 60000 £ per year.
- Overview
- End-to-End Product Design: Own the design process from early concept exploration through to detailed specs.
- User Research & Discovery: Conduct customer interviews, contextual inquiries, and usability testing to ground design decisions in real user needs.
- Design
- System
Stewardship: Guard and contribute to Blink’s design system, ensuring consistency across mobile and web while evolving components to meet the needs of new product areas.
- Squad
Collaboration: Work as an embedded member of a development squad alongside engineers and product managers, participating in sprint ceremonies, design reviews, and daily decision-making.
- Cross-Platform
Excellence: Design mobile-first experiences for frontline workers (low connectivity, shared devices, varied literacy levels) and polished desktop experiences for admins.
- Data-Informed Decisions: Use qualitative and quantitative data to validate designs and iterate — ensuring the work is effective as well as aesthetic.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio showing end-to-end ownership of complex products. B2B experience is a plus but not required.
- Mobile-first design expertise; comfortable designing for frontline, non-desk workers and understanding constraints and opportunities in mobile patterns.
- Research-driven mindset: capable of planning and running user research, synthesising findings, and advocating for users in product discussions.
- Design tool proficiency: expert in Figma with strong prototyping skills. Sketch and Adobe XD experience also welcome.
- Communication skills: able to articulate design rationale to engineers, PMs, and stakeholders; present work confidently and receive feedback constructively.
- Squad-player mentality: thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced squad environment and views product development as a team sport.
- Nice to Have
- Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, Java Script) to have productive conversations with engineers.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design practices.
- Experience in scaling startup environments balancing speed with quality.
- Systems thinking: ability to design for complex workflows without losing sight of the end-user experience.
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We think you need these skills to ace Product Designer
End-to-End Product Design
User Research
Usability Testing
Design System Stewardship
Collaboration with Development Squads
Mobile-first Design
Data-Informed Decision Making
