Product Designer

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science partnering with the worlds most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight advanced technology and close collaboration to help our clients grow innovate and deliver measurable value for their customers.

dunnhumby employs nearly 2500 experts in offices throughout Europe Asia Africa and the Americas working for transformative iconic brands such as Tesco Coca-Cola Nestlé Unileverand Metro.

Were looking for a passionate skilled and ambitious Mid UI Designer to join our Design System team.
Youll join a business that values your expertise experience and insight that nurtures your personal and career growth with opportunities for every stage of your journey.

About the role:

• Collaborate with your team members to design and maintain our platform libraries using variants tokens and other organizing and scaling principles resulting in flexible reusable components for our platform libraries that are suitable for both designers to use in Figma and be technically feasible for our engineers.
• Support processes to ensure the continued relevance and best user experience of the design system including community support research and testing its effectiveness.
• Work hand in hand with the product teams to bring the design system to life inside all UI projects and help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs.
• Work with product teams to identify opportunities for simplifying designs across products across the different business areas to keep our design system lean and efficient.
• Deliver valuable high-quality and consistent work without sacrificing speed.
• Contribute to end user documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for our users.
• Create and maintain engineering handover documentation. Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle.
• Be the voice of the Digital Design System (DDS) for designers in other teams helping them use the system to produce brilliant work.
• Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible (AA)designs and components.
• Contribute to the end-to-end UI process activities relevant to the design system workflow.
• Collaborate with different disciplines inside product teams working closely with UX & UI designers researchers UX writers engineers product managers data analysts and business stakeholders to explore use test and contribute to the design system.
• Know how to validate your designs via A/B testing unmoderated usability testing etc.
• Help to facilitate workshops run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
• Help other disciplines understand the value the design system can bring to a project to build the best products.
• Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency remove obstacles and simplify workflows.
• Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
• Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive supportive and inclusive team culture.

Skills Required:

• 3-5 years UI design experience.
• A passion for the latest design AI and engineering technology
• The strong level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma.
• Good understanding of delivering latest WCAG compliant designs.
• Ability to constructively critique design.
• An awareness of existing design systems such as Material design and Fluent Design & an obsession with digital trends and design

Its an advantage if you also have:

• Graduation or Masters from Design School is a is a strong advantage
• Some engineering background is a strong advantage.
• Previous experience in the retail sector.
• Experience in a range of high-profile design projects in a customer & business facing environment.

What you can expect from us

We wont just meet your expectations. Well defy them. So youll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package youd expect from a leading technology company. But also a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus thoughtful perks like flexible working hours and your birthday off.

Youll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play experiment and learn.

And we dont just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network dh Proud dh Family dh One dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you.

Our approach to Flexible Working

At dunnhumby we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work / life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

For further information about how we collect and use your personal information please see our Privacy Notice which can be found (here)