Product Designer

On behalf of our client, we are looking for a Product Designer.

The role will focus on creating and optimising interactions between users and the product. The goal is to create a user experience that is accessible and intrinsically pleasurable ultimately improving user engagement with the product’s systems.

The daily duties and responsibilities include:
**Stakeholder and Team Collaboration**

Collaborate with stakeholders and relevant teams on Product design solutions:

- Collaborate with the product team to gather and solve complex interaction problems, using a user-centric mindset to design effective solutions.
- Collaborate with the product team to validate design solutions/proposal utilising prototyping, storyboarding, usability testing, A/B testing and any other methodology which is effective.
- Seek feedback on design solutions from stakeholders and summarise it to something that is actionable in the design cycle.
- Collaborate with the development team to ensure requirements given meet final intention and defined quality standards.

**Design Solutions and Features**

Create and implement design solutions for new products and features as required:

- Able to produce UX/UI specifications in terms of wireframes, models, mockups and flows for specific features based upon design requirement and contextually based best practices for optimise how users engage with the product.
- Continual UX/UI development and improvement of existing products and features.
- Be adaptable and pragmatic with UI/UX solutions to ensure development costs are well within the team’s scope to execute and maintain.
- Validate product designs with user feedback and engagement, identify constraints and provide corrective actions.

**Continuous Improvement**

Work closely with the product team to iteratively improve products and services for customers:

- Effectively communicate customer research findings to the team, so that they share a strong and empathetic understanding of their users.
- Keep up to date with the best UI/UX practices and upcoming UI/UX trends across different platforms such as mobile, web, and console.

**Qualification, Skills & Experience**:

- Degree-level education in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Web Development or related field.
- Have 2+ years’ experience in interactive design or similar fields. Have a successful track record of at least 2 citable products you have contributed to.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to quickly develop recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative evidence.
- Knowledge, experience in, and passion for user-centred design practices for web, mobile, software development or game development.
- Experience of understanding user needs for mobile/web content, tools and transactional services, especially those with the most complex customer journeys.
- Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams.
- Proficient with visual design programs such as Figma, Adobe Photoshop and others.
- Experience using blended agile methodologies (e.g Scrum and Kanban) for design integration.

**Personal Competencies**:

- Attention to details. Initiates action to correct quality problems or notifies others of quality issues as appropriate.
- Communication skills. Proactively communicates; informs others of what they need to know. Utilises oral and written communication to enhance relationships across the organisation. Capably articulates thoughts and ideas in speaking and listens carefully to others.
- Delivers results. Work tenaciously toward and derives satisfaction from achieving challenging goals; pitches in where required without regard to status. Self-disciplined; measures progress and evaluates results; prevents irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with timely completion of important initiatives.
- Innovation. Generates innovative solutions in work situations; tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
- Problem analysis and problem solving. Uses sound of logical judgement to spot and analyse problems, develop alternative solutions and initiate corrective action.
- Teamwork and collaboration. Makes procedural or process suggestions for achieving team goals or performing team functions; helps to remove obstacles to help the team accomplish its goals.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Perth, WA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)

Work Location: In person