Remote Product Designer (Remote, UK based) in Essex

Our Product Design team is an integral part of our business. As the architects of user and product experiences, they craft intuitive, elegant, and highly functional design solutions that drive growth and efficiency for our customers while enhancing the value of our products and services. Through relentless collaboration, they tackle real business challenges, reshaping how we and our customers think, work, and innovate.

The ideal person:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating a range of impactful UX/UI design work.
• Experience in leading or significantly contributing to all stages of the product design process.
• A deep understanding of design systems and principles, ensuring consistency and efficiency across projects.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills to articulate design decisions clearly.
• A commitment to staying user-focused, leveraging research and data to drive your designs.
• Proven ability to contribute to or define UX strategies that align with business goals and user needs.

Desirable Skills:

• Proven experience designing engaging, user-centered digital products with a strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end design processes.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Expertise in building and maintaining scalable design systems for consistency and efficiency across projects.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and inclusive design principles to create universally accessible products.
• Proficiency in conducting and analyzing user research, usability testing, and A/B testing to inform and validate design decisions.
• Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively collaborate with developers and bridge the design-development gap.
• Strong grasp of Agile and Lean UX methodologies to thrive in iterative design and development cycles.
• Experience with behavioral psychology and data analytics to influence and refine user experience strategies.
• Ability to effectively present and justify design decisions using evidence-based approaches.
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, or similar project management and documentation platforms.
• Proficiency in design tools and prototyping tools such as Figma.
• Ability to mentor and inspire junior designers, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.
• A passion for staying up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in UX/UI and digital product design.

On any given day you might:

• Work within a network of teams model.
• Lead product teams across multiple projects.
• Define the details of UX/UI requirements and size them appropriately.
• Create and deliver user experience strategies in simple, inspiring and impactful ways.
• Work with multi-discipline teams to bring products to life and quickly overcome challenges.
• Explore and communicate design concepts for digital products, using artefacts like user flows, wireframes and prototypes.
• Run experiments to validate and iterate your design concepts.
• Act as day-to-day discipline expert for resolving complex and tricky user experience and interface design problems on projects.
• Strive to set and maintain product design standards and inspire our customers.
• Take an active interest in your design discipline, always with your finger on the pulse and proactively seek to share the subject with the broader team.

You bring:

• 3+ years experience in designing for web and mobile.
• Strong experience with MacOS, Figma, Framer (Optional), Adobe CS and Google Docs.
• Solid remote team experience.
• A good understanding of user centred design, human centred design and systematic design principles.
• An advanced level of English.
• Basic experience with motion design (this would be a plus).

WQA embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.

About WQA:

We’re a software and services company that builds and transforms businesses using advanced technology, design, data, and AI. We differentiate ourselves by building strategic long-term partnerships with our customers solving their most complex challenges at the intersection of technology and product management. Our experts are hands-on, working directly with our customers’ practitioners, embedding in the business to shape objectives, devise growth strategies, and streamline processes. We're built to work smarter, and work fast — We’ve delivered best-in-class apps in three months, and can guide any organisation to launch a design system within three to six months, using our accelerators. We are headquartered in the UK.

What we offer:

Professional Growth opportunities, Ambitious goals and interesting projects.