UX Designer

**About the role**
As a UX Designer, you’ll play an important role in shaping the user experience of our software products. You’ll report to the UX Lead and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and data scientists, to create intuitive and efficient interfaces. Your work will directly assist our end-users to effectively perform complex work, critical to national and corporate security, defense and law enforcement.

**Responsibilities**
- User-Centric Design: Champion user-centered design principles throughout the product development lifecycle.
- Research and Analysis: Participate in user research and competitive analysis to ensure our product is a market leader.
- Wireframing and Prototyping: Create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.
- Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to ensure accurate implementation of design solutions.
- Usability Testing: Participate in usability testing sessions and iterate based on stakeholder feedback.
- Accessibility: Advocate for accessibility best practices and ensure compliance with WCAG guidelines.
- Documentation: Prepare detailed design specifications and guidelines for development teams.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
- 3+ years experience in UX design, preferably with experience designing for SaaS, B2B products.
- Experience working with design systems.
- Excellent time management with the ability to work independently when needed and to hit timelines.
- Amazing creative problem-solving abilities.
- Solid understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
- Proficient in Figma.
- Basic understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Ability to communicate design concepts effectively to diverse audiences.
- Passion for staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices.
- High social and emotional intelligence (people skills).

**Desirable Skills (not required)**:

- Familiarity with OSINT concepts and tools.
- Knowledge of front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Bootstrap) would be beneficial.

**About Fivecast**

Fivecast is a world-leading provider of cutting-edge digital intelligence solutions. We enable the world’s most important public and private organizations to explore masses of data and uncover actionable insights, critical to protecting global communities.

As a growing tech company with over 150 people globally, all team members are provided with the opportunity to directly contribute to our success, participate in the development of new and emerging technologies and grow their career in a challenging and dynamic high-tech environment. We are headquartered in Adelaide, Australia with teams in Canberra, Virginia USA, and London UK.

**Our Work Environment and Culture**

Our Adelaide based headquarters is a purpose-built tech hub centrally based in vibrant Hutt Street. We moved into this brand-new space in early 2023 to allow for continued collaboration, innovation & growth.

Our space has been specifically engineered for brainstorming, idea generation, random encounters across teams and to suit our casual, relaxed culture. This has been achieved through amazing features, including an arcade room, pool table, fully equipped kitchens with fruit and snacks, barista quality coffee machine, end of trip facilities (showers, lockers, bike storage, etc), as well as comfortable breakout spaces.

Fivecast has a connected work culture with team members taking advantage of our social clubs, local cafes, bars, pubs and sporting facilities for team activities. At Fivecast we understand the importance of a good work-life balance and support flexible work arrangements.