Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Product Designer involves joining a dynamic Product Design team to create user-centered designs that are visually appealing and intuitive. The designer will tackle complex problems, ensuring that each human interaction is exceptional across various sensory experiences. A strong emphasis is placed on collaboration, communication, and the ability to adapt to evolving project needs. The position requires a blend of creativity, technical skills, and a proactive approach to design challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design elegant and simple solutions for complex problems, focusing on user experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide design expertise and perspectives.
- Create and communicate design concepts through sketches, wireframes, and prototypes.
- Contribute to the evolution of established design systems.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously while adapting to new information and priorities.
- Demonstrate strong communication skills and contribute to team discussions.
- Lead projects and collaborate cross-functionally to influence product features.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of product design experience, particularly in mobile apps.
- Proficiency in modern design tools such as Figma, Sketch, and Illustrator.
- Strong visual and user interface design skills with a focus on user-centered design principles.
- Exceptional attention to detail and creative problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to communicate effectively and work under tight deadlines.
- Fluency in English; additional languages like Arabic, Urdu, or Thai are a plus.
- Experience with typography and font development is advantageous.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are seeking an experienced designer to join a growing Product Design team. The ideal designer will have a passion for taking on complex problems and designing elegant, simple solutions that surprise and delight. By constantly focusing on the user, you’ll create products that are not only amazing to look at, but also intuitive and useful to billions of people worldwide. Join this team if you’re committed to making each human interaction — visual, audial, and haptic — amazing for our customers.
Key Qualifications
- An exceptional eye for detail, creative and innovative problem solving, and fluency in iOS design patterns.
- Capability of working in a multi-disciplinary design studio.
- Comfortable working on multiple projects at once, and adapting to new information and priorities.
- Ability to communicate concepts and designs through sketches, wireframes, high-fidelity comps, and interactive prototypes.
- Familiarity with working within established design systems and contributing to their evolution.
- Proactive approach to ambiguous situations, creating clarity without direction and defining software products from the ground up.
- A collaborative mindset with the ability to take and apply feedback constructively.
- Strong communication skills and an eagerness to contribute to team discussions and decisions.
- A portfolio demonstrating your design thinking, hands-on expertise, and problem-solving skills.
- A track record of project leadership, creative thinking, and cross-functional collaboration in support of influencing product features.
- Proficiency in modern design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Keynote, and prototyping tools.
- Awareness of cultural impact on design and a desire to make inclusive design choices.
- English fluency is required. Additional fluency in Arabic, Urdu, or Thai is a plus.
Description
You will be working closely with cross-functional teams to provide expertise and new perspectives in a large organization. You should possess extraordinary visual and user interface design skills, as well as user centered design principals. You have an affinity for consistency, color use, typography, and a keen eye for subtle details. While exercising a good eye for aesthetics, you are able to grasp and distill highly complex issues and translate them into clean, focused, understandable solutions. This position requires flexibility and the ability to clearly communicate product direction under tight deadlines. Strong communication skills are required, as well as coolness under pressure, creative problem solving, attention to detail, and the ability to work in an ambiguous, evolving project space.
Other Qualifications
- 5+ years of product design experience, both visual and interaction, with a focus on mobile apps and services.
- Bachelors Degree preferred but not required.
- High level of curiosity for technology amplified by your design craft.
- Typography and font development skills is a plus.
Additional Requirements
- Have the right to live and work in the UK.
- Work on-site in our London office three days a week.
Client Description
Our Client is a multinational technology company that boasts some of the most popular consumer electronics on the planet. They also offer prolific media and entertainment services, software, cloud services, fitness accessories, and payment solutions. Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.