Job description
Our well-known client, a key player in the retail space, is looking to add a UX/UI Designer to support their creative and design teams on a freelance basis. This role is remote and will be 40 hours a week and can be up to 2 year contract, with potential to go fulltime.
Overview:
This person should be a mid- to high-level UI Designer with Mobile Experience; Not just visual, but solving functionality flows, thinking about transactions and how customers are interacting with that; how it looks visually and measures up to entire brand – a little bit of both sides (both UX and UI); candidates may also fall under title of “Product Designers.”
This team designs the website and the mobile app – these roles are oriented towards information architecture, but they're interested in candidates who also have visual design skills. Team is primarily focused on UI design for Native Flagship App – support digital roadmaps across many lines of business and support App specific maintenance.
Responsibilities:
Client is looking for a UX/UI Designer and they will be responsible for:
- Design software applications to support complex workflows, to visualize large datasets, or to operate system-level tools.
- Provide user interface design services.
- Collaborate with product development stakeholders (e.g., product and technical managers, UX designers, technical writers, developers, and end-users) to deliver new products and enhancements.
- Will augment team’s current capacity, to support roadmaps and manage overflow from there
- Individual would jump onto projects within pharmacy space - Multiple phases within program, add functionality into app, working with UX designer to build that out.
- Working alongside other UX/UI designers on team, with opportunities to stretch across channels (Omni-channel initiative)
- Working with copywriter to review design proposals
- Partner tightly with business analysts that fall under App Product Team, Development Team
- *Typical workday:
- Updates to the online brand marketplace, while also supporting other health-related initiatives.
- Some "Heads down” working on projects; Meeting structure, online collaboration, calls to talk through concerns, solutions with project partners; manager involved on many calls to get through blockers or solve problems, brainstorming/whiteboard sessions; weekly design reviews; further down the track, meetings with development
- Walk through solution with lead engineers on both platforms; reviews with stakeholders - Would expect project leads to be prepared to walk through work, speak to rationale, take questions, take feedback to revisions before finalizations -
Requirements:
- Must have 3-5 years experience designing digital experiences that have retail / ecommerce customers as the primary user
- Wire-framing and building interactive digital prototypes
- Mobile Platforms – Android and iOs (design guidelines, understand at high level)
- Design Workflow tools (in change period, current set is broad – Sketch, Zeppelin, Envision, Adobe Cloud – but looking to migrate into new platform called Figma)
- Translating within specific design systems for branding/UI – taking guidelines and creating transactional flows
- Visual design skills
- Strong skills in persuading others, strong customer first focus
If you are interested in and qualified for this position, please forward your portfolio today!