Senior Product Designer (12 month contract)
Yoti, United Kingdom
Job Description
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Product Designer to join our Design team, working on the design and delivery of one of our great Yoti products. As a Senior Product Designer, some of your responsibilities will include:
- Teaming up with our Brand, Product, Customer Service, and Research teams to establish empathy with our users worldwide.
- Working closely with our team of Product Owners, to help shape the roadmap with insights you gathered, tested and validated.
- Taking responsibility for delivering large projects, considering all elements of product design including research, UX and UI.
- You will be part of a small but growing design team of ten with whom you will collaborate with to embed and mature the design discipline at Yoti.
- Working with our developers to ensure consistency and quality throughout the entire product range.
- Involving stakeholders from all of the above to create well informed, thoughtful solutions for the challenges we face, using the tools you have in your belt as a designer to achieve the best results.
- Designing and facilitating cross-functional workshops to get the best out of the product development team.
- Supporting the growth and development of junior team members, as well as finding learning opportunities for them when reviewing their work.
Requirements
- Interaction design - You are confident facing complicated interaction problems, and can come up with simple, usable and creative solutions.
- Visual skills - You have an eye for aesthetics, you care about delivering a pleasing experience on top of a usable one, by paying close attention to details.
- User research - You've done research before, be it qualitative or quantitative. You always start from a user’s perspective and are confident looking for answers in channels necessary to end up with the best results. You document and share your results within the company.
- Collaboration - You understand that great design doesn’t happen in a vacuum, you involve your stakeholders early and often. You are experienced with (or at least up for) running workshops, brainstorms and various design sessions.
- Ownership - You take initiative, and are not waiting for others to make things happen. You constantly advocate and challenge decisions. You keep track of your own time, manage and prioritise your daily work.
- Design Systems - You have experience using or building a design system to keep consistency within design and front-end throughout products.
Benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance
- Pension
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Five fully paid Selfie Days - time off for your own personal development: volunteering, charity events etc
- Yoti Life (internal communication platform with access to shopping discounts and deals)
- Continuous learning opportunities (LinkedIn Learning, conferences, events, courses)
- Team events - Friday drinks, company parties, pub lunches, clubs (meditation, boxing, netball, anime and a whole host of others!)
- Office in Central London with flexible working hours and a social/events space (The Park)
- Access to all the resources you'll need to be successful in your role - MacBook Pro with additional 27" display, Yoti swag and an A* stationary cupboard!
Yoti Links
- Find out what we're up to in the Yoti Blog
- See what our employees have to say about us on the Yoti Glassdoor
- Have a read through our SDK
- Check out our Github account for more code info
This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with a company doing crazy-complex projects, in a fun and exciting environment, where creativity is rewarded - this is part of the Yoti DNA. We like people who have a positive attitude, transparent and are open and honest about their thoughts. Committed, collaborative and champion all of our principles and what we stand for.
We believe in equal opportunities
It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.
Pre-employment checks
If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:
- We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
- We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
- If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences bo