Mid-weight UI Designer

Defining and solving problems, big and small.
- Building functional but delightful design systems.
- Creating thoughtful, seamless experiences.
- All in a supportive and dynamic environment.
- We’re looking for a Mid-weight UI Designer who wants an amazing opportunity to work within a highly talented creative team on some of the leading global tech brands. You will be involved from the very start of projects through to development handoff.

You’ll collaborate with strategists, writers, animators, developers, producers and clients to deliver immersive web experiences, design systems for large websites, and everything in between.

While we operate at a global level, we maintain a start up culture within an environment that is social, fun and engaging, in a warehouse-style office space that is full of natural light.

Being a people first culture, we offer flexibility, growth planning and training along with an amazing wellbeing program of work, summer days off, and loads of learning opportunities and benefits.We encourage an entrepreneurial mindset where we drive innovation and continuous improvement, and we always show tremendous pride in our work.
- This is a permanent role.
- Allow us to introduce ourselves
- We’re Apparent, a full-service, independent agency made up of 140 thinkers, creators and solution-makers doing what we do best. One thing you should know about us: we’ve got an entrepreneurial spirit, and we know the work worth doing doesn’t fit into neat, tidy boxes. And neither should you, for that matter. Our warehouse space in Redfern is here for you to gather, make stuff you’re proud of and grow your strengths (even if they have nothing to do with your job description).
- We punch well above our weight, with some of the biggest clients in the world on our roster, from tech giants like Google and VMware, to local icons like Tourism Australia and Cricket Australia. Our approach? We call it the red thread. In other words, it’s the thing that connects everything we do, from the customer, through to the client and brand. On any given day you can expect to cross paths with someone in strategy, brand, creative, content production, social media, UX/UI, technology and media planning and buying. Oh and dogs, too. You’ll definitely cross paths with adorable dogs.
- A few things you’ll like about working here:

- A flexible and hybrid working policy
- Generous parental leave and summer days off
- Heaps of growth and training opportunities
- 24/7 access to our employee assistance program for you and your family

**The role is to**:

- Work closely with a diverse team of creatives, strategists, producers, fellow designers and developers.
- Design high fidelity designs through to dev ready prototypes for websites; e-commerce platforms; immersive web experiences and demos; and sites with multiple languages.
- Deep dive into content, and be able to suggest alternative ways to bucket or showcase complex information.
- Establish scalable design systems and component libraries for the broader design team to use and build off.
- Injecting the latest and greatest web technologies into our work.
- Highly communicative and responsive both within the team, stakeholders across the company and clients

**Skills you’ll need**:

- At least 2-4 years digital design experience, with relevant tertiary education.
- Experience on an iterative web or product projects.
- A background in pairing with developers to ensure front end animation and interactive details are achievable and well executed.
- Able to create and iterate in short design sprints.
- Knowledge of designing mobile first, and a champion of accessibility best practice.
- Knowledge and experience with eDM best practice.
- Ability to present work with an effective, coherent rationale and narrative.
- Pixel-perfect attention to detail
- Must possess a strong team orientation and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Can quickly QA web builds, clearly articulating and marking up developer feedback
- Trains and mentors Junior UI Designer as required.

**Software skills**:

- Figma
- Experience using After Effects, CSS and HTML is a plus.
- You’re curious. You ask questions. You hunt down answers. Just like Apparent.