Senior Digital Product Designer Contract

London (office based 3 days/week)

Contract Senior Digital Product Designer

Location: London office based 3 days a week

Department: Product Design

Hours: FullTime

Contract type: Contract

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon Porto.

Tasks

About The Role:

Were looking for an experienced handson Digital Product Designer with strong UX and product strategy skills as well as great Visual Design skills to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

About You:

The ideal person is someone who can bring their drive passion and experience to our work and processes working as the solo designer in a part crossfunctional alongside engineers currently on a hybrid working basis but with a minimum of 3 days per week at clients offices in central London. We expect that you have a successful background in Digital Product Design and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms such as UX Design Product Strategy Service Design and UI Design; a blend of these skills is a big advantage but your core skills and real strength really sits in Product and UX Design. Experience working with or a good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would be a big bonus too.

As an experienced Digital Product Designer we assume that you have strong UX Design & Research skills and as someone who is also a good Interaction Designer youll have a deep understanding of Information Architecture.

We strongly support that you have some kind of official UX training as well as a substantial amount of reallife professional experience. An interest or experience in AI and open AI would be an extra welcomed bonus though not expected nor required.(Coding ability would be a benefit but is in no way essential HTML CSS JS Swift or any other language.)

Requirements

Technical competencies:

You can take the longterm vision and help define it into a product design strategy composed of complex service and product design projects;

• You know how to visualise responsive websites and applications and the thought processes required;
• You make good structural design decisions for feature sets that are welldefined or limited in scope;
• Youll deliver quality design work and inspire our clients to work towards these standards;
• You can balance relatively complex user business and technical requirements to arrive at sound informationarchitecture designs;
• When it comes to visual outputs you always base your decisions on solid visual design principles and are proficient in using the right tool for the job;
• You can happily and expertly build complex accurate wireframes following existing visualdesign guidelines;
• You expertly collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a products functionality would work within an established visual design framework;
• You can define and document new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform;
• Youre comfortable in the design software of your choice but generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly should it be required (e.g. Sketch Figma Framer Adobe XD Marvel Photoshop Illustrator etc.);
• You have a handson approach to User Research and Usability Testing;
• You employ user feedback techniques to influence design decisions.

Nontechnical competencies:

• Your ability to work autonomously means that youre equally comfortable working in a fully remote environment as you would be in an office environment;
• You can work closely with the rest of the product team including front and backend engineers to ensure implementation is of a high standard and quality;
• Your experience allows you to understand the business as a whole and to identify proactively where your / our impact can be bigger;
• Youre able to challenge your team to think critically in solving problems;
• You can facilitate (or lead) effective problemsolving in meetings and group settings or whenever needed;
• Youre happy and comfortable taking part in design critiques and also in having your own work critiqued;
• You have a combination of experience across designing for mobile and web userfocused applications as well as denser informationrich interfaces.

What wed like to see from you:

• A portfolio (pdf presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking creativity and visual design
• Be able to talk about and clearly explain and show your thought process approach and strategy in connection to your finished work
• 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

As well as the chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people youll also get:

• The chance to work with a forward thinking ethical and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fast moving business

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Interview with Head of Product Design (1h)
• Technical Interview with members of the Design Team (1h30)

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

Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. Likewise we also offer a remotefirst working environment meaning that flexible working and worklife balance come as standard for all employees.