Senior experience designer
- Recruiter
- Bluetownonline Ltd
- Location
- City of London, London, England
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 15 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 15 Mar 2017
- Ref
- NFWR-01
- Contact
- Alanna Doyle
- Sectors
- Marketing, PR & Advertising
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
We are looking for a passionate, experienced designer who can create brilliant digital service concepts that solve real business challenges.
Everyone here is a hybrid. You'll thrive here if you have a broad design mindset and want a role that allows you to make best use of a diverse set of design skills. Your centre of gravity will be digital - likely visual, interaction or service design - but you'll know that great design solutions involve all of them. It's unlikely you fit neatly into one of the narrowly-defined UX/UI/CX-like boxes… and you don't want to. You're a designer who doesn't stop being a designer when you leave the studio.
Our work is diverse but it's all focused on helping established organisations solve real business challenges, from inventing a new future for their services to bringing a bold new idea to life successfully. We work with organisations around the world, across a wide variety of B2C and B2B services. You'll work on shaping everything from low-fidelity service illustrations and brand language to polished product interface prototypes.
As a person, you'll be well-grounded: confident, modest and respectful of others' opinions and ideas. You'll be in your element working collaboratively with other members of our team, client teams, partners and end customers. You'll be driven to deliver world-class work as part of a team of experience designers, service designers and strategists.
Experience
You will come from a strong interface, brand, service, visual or product design background. We expect you to have at least 6 years of directly relevant experience and to be able to demonstrate your experience and thinking with a strong portfolio of work. Everyone here works directly with clients, so it's critical that you are able to communicate your thinking clearly and articulately and that you can work comfortably with senior stakeholders.
You will have proven experience working on major projects and be able to demonstrate how your work has delivered on tangible business goals. You'll naturally be comfortable producing a range of outputs including sketches, diagrams, interface visuals, prototypes or anything else needed to communicate the work you've done.
Knowledge and skills
This is a hands-on design role so it's important that you are armed with the tools to create great work. Here are the basics we look for: please tell us about what else you can offer.
You'll be:
- a really strong conceptual thinker, able to generate ideas and turn them into well-articulated concepts
- as comfortable thinking out loud visually on a whiteboard as developing polished visualisations or prototypes
- as comfortable leading as doing, and happy moving between the two constantly
- as confident working in tools like Sketch or Illustrator as with a marker or a pencil
- skilled at rationalising, articulating and presenting design thinking to stakeholders and peers
- able to work across a number of projects when required and ensure that each is delivered to an exceptional standard
- inquisitive, imaginative and able to naturally make the connections between business, people, and technology through design
Characteristics and qualities
- responsible and self-motivated
- organised and structured
- analytical and creative
- warm, sociable and positive
- passionate about delivering excellent work
- genuinely collaborative
- a happy drunk
Who you would be joining?
We are one of the longest-established digital service design studios in the world: we formed the company over 14 years ago to offer a unique blend of strategy and design and we've built our reputation on working with a remarkable roster of leading organisations around the world on some of their most important digital challenges. We believe that the future of every organisation is built on digital services and that philosophy runs through everything we do.
We believe that great work is done by an experienced, tight-knit team that works together every day in a studio environment. We care passionately about our work and look for designers with the same passion we have for creating world-class design solutions for our clients. We collaborate closely - together and with our clients - in an ego and agenda-free way to solve big strategic challenges and bring big ideas to life.
We're not a factory where you'll be anonymous; we're a small, specialist consultancy with a distinctive company culture and attitude and a reputation for exceptional work. We're a place where passionate practitioners can do what they do best.
Our team of 15 is brilliant, the culture is irreverent, open and hardworking, and the office dog is a force unto herself. Our clients love coming to our studios in Shoreditch as much for the biscuits and wine as the work we do with them, and that's just fine with us.
We're unable to provide relocation packages and sponsorship for this role so only candidates eligible to both live and work in the UK will be considered for the role.
ABSOLUTELY NO AGENCIES - PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE OFFICE