Product Designer

Product Designer, Brand Creator
Remote, with ability to travel to Edinburgh City Centre

ABOUT US
We are a marketing technology company, enabling global drinks brands such as Bacardi, Diageo and Carlsberg to transform the way they support their customers with printed and digital marketing.
Brand Creator is currently used in over 30 countries, and we continue to expand globally to achieve our vision of becoming the global market leader in our industry.

OUR CULTURE

Our culture reflects our rapid growth and our ambition to be the global market leader. That means that we're a fast-paced organisation where every day is different, and the work is challenging. We appreciate that the scale-up experience isn't for everyone.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're looking for someone to join our Product Team as a Product Designer to support the team with creative, intuitive, and beautiful UX solutions for a wide range of user and business problems. We have recently built a new product team to help us overhaul theproduct experience and set us up for huge growth over the next few years We are just getting started with a lot of exciting changes and we're looking for someone ambitious to grow with us. Your work will help us to create an industry-leading product thattransforms the way our users do their work.

RESPONSIBILITES
- Design intuitive and elegant UI & UX solutions to support the product evolution and business requirements
- Produce visual / UI designs for product feature updates and brand related projects, across multiple work-streams
- Prototype high fidelity prototypes, and communicate the detail of these interactions to development though detailed product documentation
- Contribute to the growing UI design system, design language and vision of the product
- Create user flow diagrams and wireframes that capture essential user journeys and meet business requirements and technical constraints
- Carry out UX design research and workshops to analyse problems and ideate solutions with the product team and stakeholders
- Prepare and perform usability and concept tests with users for feedback and validation
- Conduct user interviews and surveys to gather insights into user needs and behaviour
- Synthesise user feedback/research results to extract key findings and insights
- Work collaboratively with other team members to come to the best solutions possible, utilising the team's knowledge, skills and creativity to get the best results

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS
- An excellent understanding of branding and it's place in UI/product design
- An ability to empathise with users and a strong understanding of user-centred design, demonstrating the ability to solve user problems with intuitive UX solutions
- Skills in icon and illustration design, with an excellent eye for typography, spacing, colour and general UI design principles
- Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and finesse in graphic and user interface design
- Experience using Figma, Miro, Creative Cloud, Sketch (or similar) for creating wireframes and high-fidelity UI designs, prototypes and components
- At least some understanding of HTML/CSS/responsive web layout and how this affects UI design decisions
- Great organisation and communication skills to plan and manage workload, and communicate updates and progress effectively with the team
- Self-motivated and proactive with a keen desire to learn and grow with the team.
- Big picture thinking - ability to think through how changes to the product design will deliver value for our business and contribute to prioritisation to ensure we delivers value early.
- Outcome-driven team-player: Show the desire to get great outcomes for our users and therefore our product and business as a whole
Bonus points if you have;
- Experience in a fast-paced tech company/start-up