Senior UI Designer

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Senior UI Designer

Buckfastleigh, Devon

£35,000 - £45,000 Plus Benefits

About Our Client

They’re mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything our client does. They love to grow it, pack it into boxes and deliver it to customers’ doorsteps around the UK. This takes a lot of brilliant people, with a range of skills and knowledge.

30 years ago, our client created the organic veg box. Since then, they have defined entirely new organic and ethical markets, built restaurants, founded subscription e-commerce and grown to deliver to over 50,000 households per week. Every part of the company is enabled through technology and our client wants to express their unique offer to customers in a compelling and beautiful way.

Our client’s culture and values set them apart from other businesses. Theirs is a friendly, informal place to work, with a passionate, entrepreneurial spirit. They’re committed to providing a fair deal for growers, customers and staff.

They are extraordinarily passionate about their products, the ethics they demand of themselves in their supply and the attention to detail they take in their delivery. This all begins with digital touchpoints and our client wants them to be stunning.

What you’ll be doing

It’s an exciting time to join our client and you will be at the centre of a new chapter for e-commerce. You will help to deliver the ambitious roadmap and architecture of our client’s new website and mobile application.

As an experienced UI Designer, you will be defining our client’s digital style, and working with the wider design team to ensure their brand guidelines translate well over multiple platforms without compromising the essence of their fantastic brand. Your will be creating and developing the visual design for new and existing digital products (including a new app), working extremely closely with the UX Designer and development team to create user experiences that exceed customer expectations, are highly engaging and look beautiful.

You will have an eye for clean, artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able translate high level UX interaction flows, transforming them into intuitive user interfaces.

Your responsibilities

Every day will pose a new design challenge, and you’ll be working with some of the best in the business. This is how you’ll fit into the team:

- Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience

- Execute all visual design stages, from concept to final hand-off to engineering

- Develop rewarding working relationships with UX, development, creative and other key teams

- Be passionate about new technology and emerging UI trends and advocate their use

- Help to support the multi variant testing program and seek to drive incremental revenue wherever possible

- Champion a user-centred design methodology

- Find new ways to add value to and leverage the wealth of content our client has through design

- Establish and promote digital design guidelines, best practices and standards

- Be an un-compromising advocate for our client’s brand through their digital products

Skills & experience

You will be front and centre in the development of our client’s digital visual style, and they want it to be amazing! To do this you will need:

- Proven, senior UI experience, either through a solid degree in a design subject or proven experience in the industry

- Exceptional portfolio - you will have delivered impact through design across a range of products and services including web and app

- Experience of working in a cross-discipline team environment

- Passion for interface design and interaction

- Strong attention to detail

- Appreciation of user-centred design

- An expert with relevant creative tools (Adobe CS, Sketch and Framer)

- Experience of designing for multiple platforms (Desktop, Mobile & Tablet web/apps)

- Understanding of responsive or adaptive design methods

- Understanding and some experience of using prototyping tools (e.g. Pixate, Invision App, Marvel, Flinto and framer etc)

- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Benefits

Our client’s expectations are high and you will be rewarded by being part of a fantastic business with unique benefits. They offer 31 days’ holiday (including bank holidays), a generous company pension scheme and an annual profit share.

Our client is based in some of the most beautiful countryside in the world in a modern solar-powered office with all the best start-up trimmings; good coffee, organic breakfasts and lunches, break-out pods, top-end hardware and obviously, a tractor hanging from the ceiling. They are also about to become employee owned, sharing their profits because they believe everyone should succeed together. When was the last time you heard birdsong while defining a new asset register? Ate organic poached egg on sourdough while working closely with UX and the engineering team? This is life with our client.

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Additional Keywords: Senior UI Designer, Senior User Interface Designer, Senior UX Designer, Front End Developer, Front End Designer, Web Designer, Digital Designer, IT.

Working hours: 40 hours per week