Product Designer

**Job Description**:
**About us**

We empower investors to make more informed decisions with simplicity, transparency, and democratisation of investment information. Our goal is to make investing more enjoyable, less stressful, and more rewarding.

**The opportunity**

Dive into a world where your design brilliance shapes the future of investment technology, and your creative vision brings to life a seamless, innovative user experience for over 700,000 monthly active users across Livewire Markets and Market Index

Reporting to our Head of Product and joining a Design team of three, each of whom has their own area of specialty, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the user experience of our digital products.

**Your ownership**
- Design Exploration and Iteration: Unleash your imagination and conduct design exploration to conceptualise and iterate on groundbreaking product design solutions.
- Mockup and Prototype Creation: Unleash your design wizardry to create visually stunning and functionally impressive mockups and prototypes.
- High-Fidelity Design Specifications: Develop meticulously detailed high-fidelity design specifications that provide clear guidance to our implementation team.
- UI Component Library Management: Take charge of designing and maintaining a library of reusable UI components, elevating consistency and efficiency across our product.
- Collaboration with Engineers and UI Testing: Collaborate closely with our brilliant engineers, translating your designs into interactive user interfaces.

**Your experience and skills**
- User-Centred Design: Conducting thorough user research to gather insights and truly understand their needs, enabling us to create remarkable solutions.
- Design Thinking and Iteration: Your ability to adapt designs based on feedback and user testing will drive continuous improvement and innovation.
- Visual Design and Prototyping: Your visual design prowess enables you to create awe-inspiring mockups and prototypes.
- Design Specifications and Documentation: Effectively communicate design concepts, interactions, and visual guidelines to our development team, ensuring flawless implementation.
- UI Component Design and Management: Showcase your talent in designing and managing a library of reusable UI components.
- Collaboration and Communication: Excel in collaboration, forging strong relationships with cross-functional teams, particularly our exceptional front-end engineers. Your ability to communicate design decisions, rationale, and specifications will drive successful project execution.
- UI Testing and User Feedback: Demonstrated proficiency in conducting comprehensive UI testing and actively seeking user feedback.

**Why should you join us**:

- We’re a purpose-driven high-growth start-up as we change the way people invest
- Our team is awesome. Not just as people but because we bring together experience from some of the fastest-growing and most successful start-ups in Australia
- More development than you can poke a stick at (It comes with the territory of being onboard a rocket ship)
- A flexible environment that understands the best people have busy lives outside of work
- Opportunities to learn more about investing in six months, than you would from 10 years of reading books.

**+ There are perks**
- Flexibility first - we all have rich and full lives outside of work that matters too
- Learning and training budget - keep learning and growing
- Team events - some involve the snow, some involve gym gear and some just involve eating - there's something for everyone
- Snacks, drinks, a ping pong table (because that matters.. right?)