Contract Digital Product Designer (Design Systems)

What are we looking for?

We re looking for an experienced hands on Digital Product Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

In this role, you will be working alongside the rest of our designers and our product teams to help shape digital products that will amaze end-users and lead our clients to success, so make sure you arrive ready to have an impact.

We know that everyone can t be good at everything, but we expect that you have a solid background in Digital Product Design, with a strong focus on Design System and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms, such as:

• UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design.
• Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed.
• Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would also be a big bonus.
• Coding skills / ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential.
• Experience working with Zeroheight and Storybook very welcome.

Tasks

You might be a good fit for this role if you

• Have significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;
• You are happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a design language;
• Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems;
• Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easy-to-use experiences;
• Happily participate in all phases of product design: Research, Sketching, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping, User Testing;
• Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them as well as sharing your own knowledge;
• Love working alongside front-end developers and being a part of a cross-functional team;
• Believe that product, design and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together;
• Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people;
• Are very hands-on;
• Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team;
• Believe that learning and self-development never end;
• Want to bring your drive, passion and experience to our work and processes;
• Are comfortable working either in a remote environment, or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.

Requirements

What we'd like to see from you

• A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity and visual design;
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have;
• All written documents must be sent in English.

Benefits

What you can expect as part of the Design team at YLD

You will be joining a great working environment where you will be surrounded by creative people with a strong company culture of innovation and team spirit;

Have the support of our more experienced and senior team members for regular check-ins, reviews, feedback sessions and knowledge sharing;

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too

Growing every day

Including everyone

Relationships built on honesty and ethics

Inspiring solutions

Winning together

We re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.