UX/UI Designer

**User Experience and Interaction Designer**
**(UX/UI Designer)**
**Salary: up to £50,000**
**Location: Bristol / Remote working possible**

Vaarst is a cloud robotics business, focused on the energy transition space. We are developing a platform for mobile autonomous robotics, starting with the offshore renewables sector. Our R&D team produces state of the art computer vision coupled with the latest in machine learning techniques. We use this to deploy underwater robots on wind farms where they perform visual surveys and output detailed 3D models (see it in action here).

To keep them connected we have built an Intelligent Data Platform that integrates with our state-of-the-art AI driven camera system and the latest machine learning techniques.

We are looking for an confident and creative User Experience and Interaction / UX/UI Designer who is enthusiastic about supporting product vision by researching, prototyping and developing user-testing experiences for digital products. You are the type of person who enjoy creating innovative design concepts and can effectively articulate thinking and process, would be keen to be a part of a great team building an Machine Learning platform that will revolutionise an industry.

The role is to work in collaboration with stakeholders across the business to evaluate user and business requirements and to quickly iterate and test designs to ensure they translate into a great user experience. This will include the production of wireframes, user stories and flow diagrams.

These will be supplied to Front End developers to implement, and to Testers for conversion into test scripts. This person will help determine the look and feel of our platform and ensure our customers’ journeys through it are seamless and productive.

As a team we are passionate about our company’s future and work hard to see the results of our efforts changing our industry. We are small enough that everybody makes a difference but big enough to provide variety of work and strong in-house expertise. We work together and celebrate our successes together.

**Requirements**:

- UX design tools
- Wireframing
- Experience with user story development
- Creation of user flow diagrams
- Experience with React is desirable
- Experience of using Axure, Figma, Invision or proto.io
- Experience handling rich and interactive data types (video, 3D models etc)

**Why join us?**

People join Vaarst because they can identify with our vision. They feel excited by the opportunity to leave their mark and produce something that is used to solve real world problems.

We appreciate our team’s passion and drive to perform at the highest level, so offer:

- A fast growing company that can accelerate your career
- Competitive salary that tracks market rates
- Generous pension
- Flexible working policy and remote working options
- 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) growing to 43 with long service
- Personal private medical insurance that can be extended to your family
- Additional training and personal development
- A people focused, inclusive culture

As a team we are passionate about the creation of underwater technology. We work hard to see the results of our efforts changing our industry. We are small enough that everybody makes a difference but big enough to provide variety of work and strong in-house expertise. We work together and celebrate our successes together.

We are shaping our culture around our team, encouraging and supporting learning activities and we want our employees to be part of a team that goes above and beyond good performance, we believe doing things together makes us more cohesive and creates an enjoyable place to spend our working hours in.

We tend to keep our job ads wide to capture interesting people with different skills and experience, so even if you do not tick all the boxes but you are excited about the job and feel confident you could hit the ground running please send us your CV.