UX/UI Designer

Konvergent is a consulting organisation that is reimagining architecture. We focus on business to helping businesses solve their organisational challenges. Whether it’s plugging a people gap, starting a strategic architecture programme or completing a digital transformation of your operations, our Konvergent consultants can help. Our business was built to help you solve these challenges.

As a Digital Product Designer, you will be responsible for designing and developing digital products and high quality designs that meet the needs of our clients and the business. Your primary focus will be on delivering innovative, user-centric designs for client projects as well as bringing design thinking to projects, and new techniques to enhance our current digital products. You will be expected to lead on projects and work collaboratively with the wider design team and other stakeholders, to deliver excellent client outcomes and help develop the Konvergent Design Studio.

You will have a wealth of demonstratable experience through the entire end-to-end project lifecycle within your diverse portfolio. As well as the technical skills, you will also be able to build strong relationships with clients and possess great stakeholder management qualities. Communicating effectively with both clients and management to keep them up-to-date with project milestones is essential to this role.

You will be motivated, proactive and eager to grow as a key part of the business. It's a fantastic time for you to join a team where no idea is a bad one, and your skills can be explored to support our creative vision.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design customer-first products and solutions ready to be built, tested and developed further to meet the needs of our clients
• Pushing the usability and market success of new and current interactive digital products, enabling us to fulfil our ambitious business objectives
• Creating wireframes, low/hi fidelity prototypes and visual designs that effectively communicate the product vision and user experience
• Running and managing ideation, brainstorming, user interviews and stakeholder workshops to experiment with different designs and validate assumptions
• Conducting research and analysis to understand customer needs and behaviour
• Work closely with business teams to find solutions to design challenges that appeal to clients and ensuring our designs are always user-centric and genuinely impactful
• Constantly challenging yourself and the team on how we work, helping to adopt new practices and tools, suggesting and implementing new ways of working to streamline our processes and deliver value for our clients.
• Develop and maintain design standards, guidelines and style guides.
• Taking technical briefs and translating them into high quality engaging journeys and product experiences.
• Delivering projects within strict deadlines.
• Communicating productively with clients and management to keep them up-to-date with key project milestones.
• Staying up-to-date with the latest design trends and emerging technologies.

Attributes:

• 3+ years in Digital Product Design
• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Showcase a strong portfolio of digital products and creative solutions previously worked on, preferably with evidence of ROI
• Have expertise across UX and UI; user research, information architecture, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, typography, iconography, colour and layout skills.
• Experience of developing customer facing digital applications and products and in launching customer focused digital products
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles and best practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Creative flair, originality and a strong visual sense.
• Experience in leading projects from brief to delivery.
• The ability to grasp client needs and consider most suitable solutions.
• Confidently and passionately present and explain ideas to clients and colleagues.
• The ability to work methodically and meet deadlines.
• Proactive and self-motivated - you thrive on taking ownership of initiatives with limited oversight.
• Good front-end development knowledge or experience would be highly beneficial

Software/Skills:

• Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, XD
• Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Figma, Sketch and other industry standard software/tools

Please attach a copy of your portfolio to idickinson@konvergent.co.uk

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £40,000.00-£52,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Flexitime
• Gym membership
• Private medical insurance
• Profit sharing
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London