UX/UI Designer

Be Collective is looking for a mid-level UX/UI Designer to join the team

If you have a passion for understanding users, building design systems, working with complex Enterprise-scale products and are keen to further develop your skills on a socially responsible platform, we’ve got an opportunity that will keep you captivated and challenged

**The role**

We seek a mid-level UX/UI Designer to join our friendly, dynamic and accomplished team. You will work within an agile team environment, collaborating with our Product team (Product Manager, Product Analyst, Tech Lead, Software Engineers, Architect, QA) to bring the product vision to life through intuitive workflows that address our users’ needs and achieve product-market fit. You will love and thrive in our autonomous working culture.

If you’ve got the talent, and care about making a difference, this is an opportunity to join an organisation building a platform that is making the world a better place.

We:

- Are a privately funded scale-up business.
- Have a friendly and cohesive team who adhere to agile principles to deliver the best product we can.
- Care deeply about our culture, and are committed towards growing an engaging and collaborative work environment.
- Are developing an innovative global platform that is disrupting and revolutionising a sector crying out for change, with a focus on volunteer management.
- Have one core web app product and offer multiple value-add products for premium customers.

**Skills and Experience**

Required skills: what you will do day-to-day
- Conduct feature discovery and user research to understand user requirements. This includes:

- Identifying & executing appropriate user research methods.
- Eliciting & documenting user requirements.
- Sharing findings across our teams.
- Develop product designs and documentation. This includes:

- Identifying & solving user and design problems.
- Working closely with our engineers to ensure technical feasibility in your designs.
- Creating wireframes and prototypes to validate and test solution options.
- Conducting user testing, documenting findings & iterating designs based on feedback.
- Creating hi-fi UI designs ready for implementation.
- Champion and iterate BC’s design practices. This includes:

- Ensuring a user-centred design approach is taken across the end-to-end design process.
- Helping the wider organisation to understand Design best practices (e.g. design systems, mobile responsiveness, accessibility).
- Driving the maintenance and evolution of our design system, notably design patterns and branding.
- Collaborate with the Product team. This includes working with our:

- Product Manager to understand the product vision and priorities.
- Product Analyst to conduct requirements gathering to form a solid understand of our users’ needs, pain points and areas of opportunity.
- Technical team members (Tech Lead, Software Engineers, Architect, QA) to ensure your designs are feasible and well-understood, and conduct UI shoulder-checks as implementation is underway.
- Stakeholder Development team (who represent our Sales and Support functions) to tap into their user insights from their daily customer interactions.

The following experience will be essential:

- Expertise in standard UX/UI software. We currently use Sketch, InVision and Zeplin. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
- Experience in establishing or working within a design system to ensure consistency and continual improvement across our products.
- Ability to work with stakeholders (real users, internal team members) to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet user needs and product vision.
- Experience in using UX design best practices, including user research, user journey mapping, wireframing/prototyping, usability testing, pattern libraries, accessibility, mobile-first and responsive design.
- Ability to work effectively in an agile setting and be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with the team.
- Be passionate about solving user pain points through great design

**Be Collective**

Be Collective is a tech-for-good organisation with a community focus delivering a digital platform for mobilising goodwill. We’re a place for action, helping our community realise positive social impact both individually and collectively. We ask communities to do what they can, when they can. We’re here to make the world a better place and bring out the best in people, businesses, government, educational institutions and charities, by connecting those providing volunteer opportunities with those that want to help. Along the way, we help foster employment pathways, activate citizenship, support individuals to showcase their volunteering and skill acquisition, and enable organisations to demonstrate and articulate their social impact.

Be Collective is a global organisation with offices in London (UK), Melbourne (Australia), and Wellington