Nearform

Senior Product Designer (UK / Ireland, contract or perm)
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šŸ“… Date Posted

Feb 14, 2025

šŸ’¼ Job Type

CONTRACTOR

šŸ“ Location

United Kingdom

šŸ’µ Rate

Unknown

Description

Who are you?
You are a Senior Product Designer and you've spent a lot of time designing software experiences, often for a B2B market. You are confidently able to work with clients that need guidance on how to turn their idea into a tangible product. You're comfortable working in complex domains and are able to digest and understand business goals and objectives. You have a versatile skill-set and understand the needs of a client and project. You understand your role as a user advocate and make sure that in everything you and your team do the user needs and wishes are heard and kept top of mind. As a systems thinker, your designs are logical, consistent, and based on higher level thinking such as principles, guidelines, etc. Finally, you're a confident presenter and inclusive communicator.

What will you do?
At Nearform, we work with international clients who are industry leaders in their respective fields. Our role is to help them build solutions and platforms; help them to launch new product ventures; fundamentally change how they operate. Design plays a key role in how we approach these projects, and how we work overall.

As a Senior Product Designer, you would be joining the ranks of an established team of experienced design professionals that you can call on for support and feedback. You will work on various industries and software delivery projectsā€”often joining product teams consisting of five to six Nearform developers, a delivery architect, and a client-side product owner.

Your remit is often much broader than just "designing the thing." Examples of what you could be doing include:
- Helping clients clarify and enhance their business objectives through the lens of design.
- Planning and executing UX research on small scale project basis.
- Collaborating with client design groups on various tasks ranging from contributing to their design systems; working with brand teams to mature their approach on brand adherence; exploring accessibility standards.
- Facilitating workshops or smaller scale creative problem-solving sessions.

In short, your work will be varied from client to client or project to project. Regardless of what you do as Nearform Senior Product Designer, you are an expert at designing software/user experiences who knows how to select the right tool for the job while finding where business needs overlap with user experience technology.

What do you need?
- 6+ years of experience in user interface design having worked on projects like rich web apps/websites; mobile applications; enterprise/B2B software.
- A versatile skillset: comfortable doing UI design as well as making user journeys; personas; prototypes.
- The know-how/experience helping customers/development teams apply/drive user-centred design processes.
- Extensive knowledge using various design tools such as Miro or Figma (or equivalent).
- A good understanding regarding constraints/possibilities modern web technologies provideā€”you donā€™t need coding skills but must possess sensibility towards it.
- Practical experience evaluating products with customersā€”having done some form(s) testing before applying it at small scales within projects.
- Ability/willingness travel (frequency/duration varies).
- Fluent English.

Why do you want to join the team?
We adopt person-first hiring approaches which means hiring best peopleā€”itā€™s simple! Our team picks cream-of-the-crop talent globally creating dynamic individuals known collectively as ā€˜Nearformersā€™.

Although widely dispersed geographically speakingā€”weā€™re tightly-knit trusting/caring about colleagues while promoting thought-sharing based upon open-source origins!

Nearform is committed shaping better world through all endeavors built upon respect/diversity/inclusivity/equality foundations!

What will you get?
- Work/Life balance: genuine dedication towards maintaining this balance!
- Family friendly: flexible environment accommodating family matters like school runs!
- The Wellness Hub: resources/support fostering/improving nearFormerā€™s wellbeing genuinely committed!
- Knowledge perks: opportunities exploring hobbies brushing up life skills learning something new available everyone!

How do you apply?
Click Apply And Include Note describing why interested joining us along with:
1) Your rƩsumƩ
2) Examples showcasing your workā€”portfolio/website/or whatever medium communicates best! We value understanding thought processes so ensure inclusion regardless format shared!

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