UI Designer

**£45,000 - £55,000 per annum**

**Cardiff, Wales, UK**

**Contract, Full Time**

**Duration: 12-month Fix-Term Contract**

**Location: UK Based - Remote**

**NO RECRUITERS. NO DEVELOPMENT STUDIOS.**

Hello World

We are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our team to help us accelerate the development of technologies supporting vulnerable people in staying safe, healthy, physically active and socially connected.

We are a small team creating a digital content delivery app that includes text, image, and video/animation features. Our app also allows users to self-organise into chat groups and engage in social activities. Each team member has their area of expertise and responsibility in delivering intuitive experiences to app users.

**What you will do**

This is an exciting new role for a talented and experienced UI Designer with a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences to join us. From day one, you’ll work closely with our team, project partners, advisory board, customers and end-users to shape the future of Tendertec’s products.
- Simplify highly complex user journeys, making it easier for users to find what they're looking for, through improved information design and strong focus on mobile
- Work with our Service Designer to deliver cross-channel solutions that solve customer problems, bringing your UI and UX expertise to the table
- Collaborate with our mobile and web developers to deliver intuitive user interaction experiences.
- Ensure final designs are on-brand, bringing our brand to life
- Create engaging assets such as icons, animations and other graphics
- Be responsible for delivering pixel perfect design, from defining detailed specifications for developers, through to QA and launch
- Evangelise design system thinking and best practices within our team and the wider business
- Work with our marketing & brand team to create guidelines for the unified & consistent expression of our brand across our digital products
- Deliver measured improvements to customer experiences across web, mobile app and internal systems

**Requirements**:
**Your Skills, Knowledge, and Experience**
- Demonstrable experience building cross device experiences ideally for social brands
- Expert in using interface design e.g. Figma to create & maintain pattern libraries that serve both designers & developers
- Experience with building and maintaining mature design systems, and able to shape our strategy
- Strong understanding of branding and designing for intentional emotive responses
- Expert in creating responsive UI designs, with an understanding of modern platform design standards & frameworks (grid systems, spacing etc)
- Expert understanding of typography, colour, layout and visual design principles
- Experience with designing for accessibility, with a good understanding of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) and how to meet these criteria
- Basic understanding of HTML and CSS, enough to understand how development techniques impact design and to help communication with developers
- Experience incorporating motion and animation into interface design
- Experience across the full Software Development Life Cycle
- Some experience building SaaS style products, even if just used internally
- Ideally some experience in building solutions for either the health, social care or ageing sectors.
- Good communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively
- Strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
- Valid UK work permit

When working with us, you will be expected to promote Tendertec's core values and ethos, understand the importance of data protection laws and protocols within your role, and abide by them at all times.

If you have a strong background in mobile app development, are a self-disciplined, autonomous worker with a passion for delivering exceptional user experiences, we would love to hear from you.

Visa Sponsorship not available.

**Benefits**

We expect the best from our teams and in return, we offer a generous package of benefits including competitive salary, flexible working conditions, stock share options and opportunities for career development.

A BIT ABOUT US

**We are innovators**

You’ll join a growing team of self-starting innovators and problem solvers with support from leading VCs and advisors. We consider engineering quality of paramount value and will always look for the most rigorous solution to a problem. As a team, we strive to constantly improve our knowledge of infrastructure and systems and remove any blockers that may appear.

**We want to make an impact**

Tendertec was founded to tackle two challenges that our societies are facing today: unlocking healthy ageing and protecting the sustainability of our social care systems.

**We are purpose-driven**

We are developing the next generation of personalised connected care and digital fitness support technologies for vulnerable people and und