UX/UI Designer

Job type
Location
Auckland
Salary
Very competitive remuneration + benefits
Reference
BH-12393

Description
Our client is an award-winning business travel and expense software company that’s winning on a global scale. They’re an established leader in Australasia and revolutionizing the way people do business travel all over the globe.
We’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to help us build a world-class design practise.

Requirements
We’re seeking designers who are interested in joining a passionate and high-performing team as they extend, adapt and improve our products.
As a Senior Product Designer, you will work within cross-functional teams to design intuitive, innovative and well-crafted product experiences informed by research that solves real problems for our growing user base.

What you'll be doing

  • Work collaboratively with product managers, software engineers and other designers. Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers

  • Prototype concepts for new features and improvements.

  • Facilitate and/or observe usability testing of prototypes; customer interviews and field research.

  • Participate in workshops during discovery and delivery.

  • Gather data about the market, user needs and behaviours through desk research and field research.

  • Design interactions and workflows using components from Zeno's Design System, ZUI, and collaborate with design and front-end engineers to extend the component library where required.


What you'll bring to the team

  • You’ll have proven experience as a Product Designer / User Experience Designer in software and be able to articulate how your work in this area has made an impact.

  • You’ll have a portfolio that demonstrates impeccable foundational design skills (typography, colour, layout, interactions).

  • You’ll have experience with a variety of quantitative and qualitative research techniques and methodologies. You’ll be familiar with all the usual tools and techniques including canvases, ideation, personas, journey maps, wireframes and prototypes.

  • You’ll have experiencing working with and/or building and maintaining a Design System and be comfortable using Figma with Libraries. An understanding of atomic principles and web development are a plus.

  • You thrive in a collaborative, team environment; have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and are comfortable liaising with internal and external stakeholders.

  • You’ll have excellent time management skills and be able to use your initiative when it comes to prioritising based on impact and value.

  • You’ll be able to articulate user needs and insights to both technical and business stakeholders to influence decisions and inspire customer-centricity.

  • You are comfortable with rapid change that comes with working in a high-growth tech company.


What's in it for you?
In return you will receive a very competitive base salary along with a bonus component. More importantly. you will be working with very skilled practitioners within a design team that is actively growing. This, along with the opportunity to work on a truly global product with immense growth planned in the near future.
If you'd like to find out more about this opportunity, or would like to know more about what is going on the Auckland's UX industry - please reach out to Khir at Khir@potentia.co.nz