Senior UX UI Designer

Company: Hidden Creative

Location: Manchester, UK (hybrid - onsite and remote)
Term: Full time

We are excited to be recruiting for an experienced, highly creative Senior UX / UI Designer. Based in Manchester City Center, we afford our employees the opportunity to work with global iconic engineering brands as well as delivering cutting-edge projects.

At Hidden we provide state of the art metaverse solutions and VFX video content, you will lead and contribute to multiple projects across the business, owning the end-to-end UX / UI design process, researching our customers needs, creating interactive prototypes and design documentation.

The chosen candidate will be an exceptional communicator, versed in dealing with both internal and external stakeholders right up to board level.

Our clients trust in us to communicate their innovative solutions of the future, so a large part of the role is to design and visualise Fictional User Interfaces . Working closely with the Creative Director, you will have the responsibility to create highly engaging meaningful interfaces for some of the largest engineering companies in the world.

The ideal candidate will have experience working collaboratively within a team of designers, 3D artists, developers and producers at all stages of the project life cycle.

UI Design Capabilities:

• Have a deep understanding of digital graphic design, typography, visual hierarchy, and user interface design.
• Be highly proficient in UI design and have an extremely good understanding of layout, grid systems, UI best practices, accessibility, and design systems.
• Be able to create amazing FUI interface designs that inspire futuristic innovations, yet have form and meaning.
• Have a problem solving mindset and be comfortable in solving problems with creative ideas, while keeping the project brief and budget in mind.
• Be able to design micro interactions and create immersive user interfaces that encourage user action and conversion.
• Highly experienced working in Figma, being proficient in its UI specific design and prototype features such as auto-layout, component properties and interactive components.
• Have an eye for detail, and strive for pixel perfection.
• Have experience in designing in all interactive mediums including VR, AR, and for screen sizes from desktop to tablet to mobile, as well as understanding responsive design.

UX Design Capabilities:

• Create wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas.
• Define and visualise information architecture.
• Drive for design consistency throughout a project using defined styles, variables, and reusable components.
• An ability to analyse customers insights and analytical data to inform the user experience.
• Confidently present your concepts and designs to clients with enthusiasm while being able to regularly refer to the overarching problem/vision.
• Having the ability to handle criticism and feedback, you can defend your design decisions by clearly explaining your own design thinking backed by your knowledge in fundamental principles and the project brief.
• Comfortably communicate and work closely with the 3D and development teams throughout the discovery, definition and build phases of each project.
• Have an awareness of the clients budget for your projects and have the ability to maintain the work within that budget and timescale

You:

• Have at least 6 years of experience in the industry working for fast paced agencies.
• Have hands-on experience designing VR, AR, Immersive experiences.
• Have a strong portfolio demonstrating your design capabilities and understanding of digital graphic design, UI and FUI. (We know life can be busy, this doesn t have to be in a presentable format, showing us your work in progress or running us through some of your design files and prototypes is plenty.)
• Keep up to date with, and understand, current design trends using a variety of sources and communities.
• Have the ability to run multiple creative projects simultaneously.

Desirable:
As part of a team that handles a wide variety of projects there will always be opportunities to develop your skills outside of your core role. While we don t expect you to, if you already have some experience in, or have an interest in developing your skills in the following areas it would be desirable. (we would also support your personal journey into these areas.)

• Motion design - the ability to create animations that show interactive user interfaces using tools such as After Effects or Figma s smart animate feature.
• 3D modelling and design.
• Knowledge of Unity.

At Hidden we offer

• An open mind to new ideas and new methodologies.
• A top-notch portfolio and full pipeline of interesting and exciting projects.
• A company in the immersive space that is growing rapidly and is looking for the best of the best.
• A friendly, focused and supportive team of high level professionals who pull together to get the projects completed.

We offer an environment to thrive and grow whilst developing a powerful mix of top quality creative and technical skills to generate highly effective immersive and digital experiences for some of the largest companies in the world.

Benefits

You will receive 24 days of annual leave along with a day off for your birthday and all UK bank holidays. We run a company pension scheme and we invest in a dedicated training budget to accelerate your career progression in the direction you want.

We are committed to flexible working and have adopted a hybrid working system enabling you to work remotely as well as in our Manchester City Centre office when required.

We are a close knit team, with a deep level of appreciation for each other s needs and requirements. We invest time and resources into our team with their personal development, as well as celebrating our successes and team spirit. We recognise the hard work that goes into the high quality projects we produce and regularly reward our staff to show our appreciation.