Junior Digital Product Designer (UX/UI)

Job Description

This small but mighty user experience design consultancy have built trusted partnerships with the smartest startups and the world's largest organisations. They partner with clients end-to-end, from strategy and definition to execution and development, across a wide range of different sectors and design challenges - with clients ranging from McDonald's to Deloitte and HSBC!

They are looking for a designer who is a smart, empathetic, methodical problem solver with a good eye for design detail. They must be willing to get stuck in and learn, working a fast-paced studio with some of London's best design talent.

You will be learning from everyone in the team and will be exposed to every part of the design process whilst supporting the more experienced designers.
  
✔️ Responsibilities:

• Assist in sketching, prototyping, testing, and iterating on user journeys alongside the teamHelp apply and maintain design systems across projects, with support from senior designers
• Collaborate with developers to ensure design intent is maintained through to implementation
• Support workshops by helping prepare materials and capturing insights during sessions
• Be open to feedback and regularly share your work for input and guidance
• Help track design tasks and contribute to maintaining momentum within your project team
• Learn to explain your design decisions clearly in presentations and design reviews
• Support documentation of user flows, edge cases, and decisions to aid development handover
• Contribute to the visual design of layouts, colour, typography, iconography and brand elements
• Help organise information and map simple user journeys to support intuitive experiences
• Assist in mapping services and processes to understand how digital products fit into the bigger picture
• Participate in agile sprints and multidisciplinary team ceremonies to stay aligned and informed

✔️ About you:

⭐️ Must-haves

• Strong design portfolio showcasing promising design thinking and craft
• Passion for design
• Strong understanding of design tools like Figma

⭐️ Skills

• Excellent communicator
• Enthusiastic, results driven and commercially aware
• Fast learner who can organise and absorb information quickly
• Persistent and never accept falling at the first hurdle
• Positive and determined
• Openly collaborative and willing to share your brain
• A keen prioritiser who is detail oriented and super organised
• Open and ready to learn from others
• Calm and natural problem solver
• Thrive in a culture of constant change 
• No problem being challenged, and challenging others respectfully
• Make a great impression with your gravitas, empathy, and presence

⭐️ Bonus points for

• Examples of real project work
• Understanding of data and information design
• Interest in writing design related thought leadership articles

Don't worry, you're not expected to have in-depth experience across all of these responsibilities - there is room to learn and grow on the job!

✔️ Perks:

• Flexible working
• Access to the new business intro fee scheme
• Access to the recruitment fee scheme
• Annual subscription to LinkedIn Learning or similar development platform
• Annual subscription to Audible (12 book annual membership)
• Health Care Cash Plan for cash back on dental, opticians, physio etc.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme