COS Midweight Product (UX/UI) Designer - 3 Months Contract

Company Description COS offers a wardrobe of ready-to-wear and accessories rooted in exceptional quality and lasting design. The creative soul of the brand is fuelled by a deep connection to modern culture, dynamic global cities and compelling fashion movements. With an emphasis on expert craftsmanship, innovation and materiality, collections are created with a mindful approach, seamlessly blending contemporary and timeless.

Job Description As a Midweight Product UI/UX Designer at COS, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our digital experiences. Working within Digital Product and Tech teams, you will report into the Head of Digital Product Strategy and work on the creation and evolution of our design system, while crafting innovative, intuitive, and visually compelling experiences for the new cos.com and app. Your sharp eye for detail and deep expertise in UX and UI design will elevate the customer journey across all digital touchpoints.

What You Will Do Design System: Work closely with the Head of Digital Product Strategy & the Senior Product designer to ideate, plan, execute and maintain the new COS Design System, bringing together information and key insights from multiple teams across the business. Design System Training: Help plan and execute a training plan for teams across the business in how to input into the design system. Product Design: Design user interfaces that reflect customer behaviour, drive conversion, and align with UX best practices and COS's elevated brand identity. Combining creativity with commercial insight, delivering pixel-perfect designs, intuitive flows, and high-quality prototypes in collaboration with developers-always applying a mobile-first approach. Optimisation: Collaborate with Product & Business Experts alongside Front-End Developer on user experience tests to evaluate existing functionality and identify improvement opportunities Testing: Conduct thorough quality checks when signing off all tests and live digital enhancements Global: Assist with the handover, testing and implementation of site enhancements across other global platforms, optimising/adapting for local markets when necessary. Research: Orchestrate user research and analysis efforts to inform customer journey design ensuring insights directly shape design decisions and product requirements.

Qualifications Alignment to our company values is the most important characteristic we look for in all new joiners. Our values are the behaviours that we appreciate above and beyond anything else. We are open-minded and curious , we dare to be different , we believe in constant improvement and we empower and trust you to take ownership. Our values are part of who we are, what we stand for and how we act. Someone who is passionate about learning and development, and wants to grow yourself and others. A positive attitude and a role model for our values are important qualities that you should possess.

What You Need To Succeed Data Driven Decision Making: Use learnings, test results and data to inform the most optimised ,customer-centric designs across all areas of product design. Collaboration: With other functions within the business, including Product Design, Content &Copy, Digital Experience & Developers, to ensure all work produced has a holistic approach. Communication: Clearly communicate design approaches and rationales to key stakeholders in an engaging way. Deadline management: Work to agreed project timelines and deadlines, managing your own time effectively, in close collaboration with Product Manager and Head of Product Strategy Agile Product Management: Strong understanding of agile methodologies Customer Centric: Keep a pulse on customer and user needs, industry trends, and best practices to ensure COS can deliver exceptional experiences and drive business outcomes Team Support: Support and guide more junior members of team. Tools: Use appropriate softwares and tools (eg. Figma, Keynote, AE, PS, Premiere, InDesign,AI) to execute a project or task in the most logical and efficient way.

Additional Information This is a Full time temporary 3-months contract based at our Head Office in London. Benefits We offer all our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a 25% staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. In Addition To This Office Based Colleagues Also Receive 20 days holiday Discounts on everyday brands and leisure activities Retail Trust membership Pension scheme Discounted gym membership Cycle to work scheme Inclusion & Diversity At COS we're determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people who share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive as possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world, therefore all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process. In this role you will have some flexibility to work remotely however due to the high level of cross department collaborations approx. 3 days per week office presence is required to foster strong collaborations and team work.

Ready to register interest? Click on the I'M INTERESTED link where you can upload your CV and portfolio securely. Once we have received your application, we will keep you updated regularly about the status of your application so please look out for our email. We are looking forward to hearing from you!