TerraQuest
Role- UI Designer
Location- Birmingham office 3 days per week, 2 days remote
Salary up to £55k
Role Purpose
Terraquest is looking to add an experienced UI designer to the design team. This role reports into the UX/UI Lead and sits within a multidisciplinary solutions team.
The primary focus of the role is to produce data driven design solutions in response to business needs. These will mostly be delivered to our users via our suite of digital products. As a UI designer you need to work with User researchers and UX designers to understand users and design a UI that articulates the experience we qualified as the best approach. Managing and evolving our design systems is key for the UI designers and helps the whole design team to remain efficient and able to deliver pixel perfect designs for hand off to dev.
The team
You will be joining a growing, experienced and evolving team that is embedded in the agile development product cycles at Terraquest. Collaboration, shared learning and user centred design are at the heart of what the UX/UI team do and shapes the solutions delivered by the scrum teams we support.
The Product Management Team within Solutions includes Product Owners, Business Analysts, UX/UI Designers and User Researcher roles.
These roles all work with or within SCRUM Teams, that include, a SCRUM Master, Product Owner, Architect, Developers and Quality Assurance Analyst. SCRUM teams are also supported by DevOps.
Principle accountabilities - What you will be doing
- Working directly with (but not exclusive too), Product owners, Business analysts, SME’s and business stakeholders to understand business and product needs
- Turning UX hypothesises into pixel perfect and intuitive UI designs ready for dev.
- Supporting discovery and research phases of projects and learning about users
- Supporting user testing throughout UX phases to validate concepts and provide user facing UI designs for testing
- Activities and deliverables including but not restricted to; Wireframing, advanced prototyping, design system management, producing high fidelity hand off ready designs and supporting any user research requirements
- Collaborating with fellow designers and sharing work on projects
- Working with UX designers and User researchers to provide insight into the best UI to meet user needs and solve user pain points
- Peer reviewing of team member’s work
- Mentoring more junior team members
- DSM management
Person specification - What we are looking for
- Ideally 5 years’ experience as a UI designer
- Empathetic, user focused and adaptable to business and technical requirements
- Excellent organisational skills and able to work on multiple projects
- Comfortable presenting ideas, giving and receiving feedback and collaborating on live designs
- Familiar with agile development processes
- Experience with industry standard tools, Sketch, Figma, XD, Axure, Protopie, Invision. As a team UI work is currently produced in Sketch.
- Experience creating advanced prototypes
- Comfortable taking business requirements and producing technically viable, user centred solutions
- Enjoys working with end users to qualify concepts
- A portfolio of high-quality UI designs and real-world examples
- Experience working alongside UX and user research
- Mentoring experience
- Experience as part of design team
Beneficial experience
- Experience working as a UX designer
- Experience with ADO or Jira
- Degree or equivalent in a design specialism
- Experience running design workshops
In return you will earn a competitive salary of up to £55k (depending on experience) and a generous benefits package which includes 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Pension and DIS
For more information please apply by sending a copy of your CV