Senior Product Designer

**Job Title: Senior Product Designer / UX Designer**

**Location**: UK based - Fully Remote.

**Start Date**: Immediate Start

**Salary**:Salary to be agreed based on experience

**Job Type**: Permanent, Full Time

**About Us**We are HireRoad, a diverse group unified by our belief that people are not interchangeable, and that organisations succeed when every individual within them succeeds. We create powerful software that helps organisations find people with the right skills, andthe people who feel “this company fits me”. Importantly, our innovative software supports new members of an organisation to ensure they’re engaged and empowered for success in their new role. Formerly known as Acendre, our roots run deep in talent acquisitionsoftware and we work on a global scale remotely and in office in Arlington, Virginia; Melbourne, Australia; and Loughborough, United Kingdom.
Otto Berkes is HireRoad’s Chief Executive Officer. Otto has an extensive background in innovation including co-founding Xbox, leading the development of DirectX graphics, and building HBO’s streaming services. HireRoad is backed by Strattam Capital who investsin established companies with high-quality products and services across three IT business market segments: enterprise software, digital infrastructure, and technology-enabled services.

**About the role**

As a **Senior Product Designer / UX Designer**, you will be involved in every aspect of the design process, from concept development to inspecting pixels just before launch. You will rely on a full range of design skills from interaction designto product design to prototyping. This role represents design on multidisciplinary project teams, working with product managers and developers. Your job is to help inform product vision and foster positive digital experiences for our user base.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Create elegant and useful design systems that define the digital experience across our HR Software as a Service platform.
- Distill complex interactions into clear, understandable design solutions and communicate them to stakeholders.
- Help create end-to-end design experiences, interaction models, and design systems.
- Work closely with your fellow designers, developers, product managers and audience research analysts to transform data into defensible design solutions.
- Facilitate design thinking and co-creation sessions across the organization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to prototype and test design directions and solutions
- Help tell the story of our product user experiences through storyboarding, user journeys, and other storytelling methods.
- Work closely with developers to help build prototypes and refine working products.
- Demonstrate an ability to balance the innovative with the pragmatic.
- Effectively work across multiple, related teams, systems, or projects within the division.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**REQUIRED SKILLS**
- Expertise in working with interface design tools like Sketch or Figma.
- Experience working with web, mobile, iOS and Android design patterns, informed by Apple’s HIG and Google’s Material Design standards, respectively.
- Understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG, Section 508, etc) and ability to design for these
- Ability to tell compelling stories about your work and present it confidently to your team, stakeholders, and executives.
- Strong written and verbal communication capabilities.
- Passion for designing products and systems that aim to “create a more engaging and rewarding work experience”.

**PREFERRED SKILLS**
- The strong mobile design aesthetic and a passion to explore that aesthetic on NPR’s mobile products.
- Working knowledge of standards in mobile programming frameworks - in particular, React
- Proven track record of designing and helping to ship successful products and services.
- Digital prototyping experience.
- Experience designing across multiple devices and contexts (desktop, mobile, accessories).
- Experience working in an agile project methodology.
- Curiosity for emerging technologies and processes, and willingness to contribute relevant findings back to the team.

**What we offer you in return**
- Play a key role in the expansion of a highly-funded SaaS business
- Collaboration with international offices on global projects
- Backing from Senior management to be disruptive - for positive outcome
- Stock Options
- Generous holidays
- Enrolment into the Pension scheme
- Competitive salary
- Continuous learning and development opportunities
- Employee recruitment referral scheme
- Significant potential to progress your role as we are expanding rapidly
- An empowering, team-oriented, ego and politics free environment
- Remote working options
- Perkbox membership