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.
About The Role:
We’re looking for an experienced, hands-on Digital UX 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 potentially as the solo designer in a cross-functional team, alongside engineers, currently on a remote basis, but with access to client’s 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, and Service 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, you’ll 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 real-life 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.)
Technical competencies:
- You can take the long-term 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 well-defined or limited in scope;
- You’ll 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 information-architecture 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 visual-design guidelines;
- You expertly collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product’s functionality would work within an established visual design framework;
- You can define and document new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform;
- You’re 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 hands-on approach to User Research and Usability Testing;
- You employ user feedback techniques to influence design decisions.
Non-technical competencies:
- Your ability to work autonomously means that you’re 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 back-end engineers, and PO/PM 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;
- You’re able to challenge your team to think critically in solving problems;
- You can facilitate (or lead) effective problem-solving in meetings and group settings, or whenever needed;
- You’re 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 user-focused applications, as well as denser, information-rich interfaces.
What we'd 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
As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you’ll 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 & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (~1h30)
- Call with Client Partner of the Project (15-30 min)
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
