UI Designer

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UI Designer

Buckfastleigh, Devon

£25,000 - £30,000 DOE Plus Benefits

About Our Client

Our client is mad about organic veg. It’s at the core of everything they do. They love to grow it, pack it into boxes and deliver it to customers’ doorsteps around the UK. This takes a lot of brilliant people, with a range of skills and knowledge.

Our client began in 1986, with a few acres of veg, a wheelbarrow and a beaten up 2CV for deliveries. They’ve grown into a successful e-commerce business, with four farms, three packhouses, a fleet of vans and drivers, a wholesalers, butchery, organic restaurant and pub. They employ people across many areas including IT, Logistics, Sales, HR, Finance and Marketing (and more besides).

Our client’s culture and values set them apart from other businesses. Theirs is a friendly, informal place to work, with a passionate, entrepreneurial spirit. They’re committed to providing a fair deal for growers, customers and staff.

What you’ll be doing:

It’s an exciting time to join our client and you will be at the centre of a new chapter for e-commerce. You will help deliver the ambitious roadmap and architecture of their new website and mobile application.

As a UI Designer, you will be creating and developing the visual design for new and existing digital products, working extremely closely with the UX Designer and development team, to create user experiences that exceed customer expectations, are highly engaging and look beautiful.

You will have an eye for clean artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able translate high level UX interaction flows, transforming them into intuitive user interfaces.

This is a permanent role. You will work 40 hours a week Monday to Friday, based out of our client’s farm near Buckfastleigh in Devon.

Your responsibilities:

Every day will pose a new design challenge, and you’ll be working with some of the best in the business. This is how you’ll fit into the team:

- Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience

- Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering

- Develop rewarding working relationships with UX, development, creative and other key teams

- Be passionate about new technology and emerging UI trends and advocate their use

- Help to support the multi variant testing program and seek to drive incremental revenue wherever possible

- Champion a user-centred design methodology

- Find new ways to add value to and leverage the wealth of content through design

- Establish and promote digital design guidelines, best practices and standards

Skills & experience:

You will be front and centre in the development of our client’s digital visual style, and they want it to be amazing! To do this you will need:

- Proven UI experience either through a solid degree in a design subject or proven experience in the industry

- Exceptional portfolio - you will have delivered impact through design across a range of products and services

- Experience of working in a cross-discipline team environment

- Passion for interface design and interaction

- Strong attention to detail

- Appreciation of user-centred design

- Competency with relevant creative tools (Adobe CS, Sketch, Framer)

- Experience of designing for multiple platforms (Desktop, Mobile & Tablet web/apps)

- Understanding of responsive or adaptive design methods

- Understanding & some experience of using prototyping tools (eg. Pixate, Invision App, Marvel, Flinto, framer etc)

- Ideally experience of working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Personal qualities:

- You will be involved in the design community and have a passion for all things design - It’s why you get up in the morning.

- Highly creative with the ability to find a different perspective on interaction problems and their solutions - You’ll be solving complex interaction issues with a highly-motivated team across disciplines.

- Self-motivated, enthusiastic and inspirational

- Every project is collaborative so the ability to work within a creative, motivated, skilled team to deliver the best possible outcome for the customer - You’ll be joining a fantastic team, with a wealth of experience

Benefits:

Our client boasts a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people - and other benefits too. They offer 31 days’ holiday (including bank holidays), a generous company pension scheme and an annual profit share. They love food and hope you do too, so they give staff 25% off everything they sell on their website; heavily discounted organic breakfasts and lunches in the staff canteen; and free organic fruit and veg. There are also many social events for staff, with two big parties a year.

As part of your application please include a link to your online portfolio or links to examples of your work.

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Additional Keywords: UI Designer, User Interface Designer, Front End Designer, Web Designer, UX Designer, UI Developer, Digital Designer, Visual Designer, Graphic Designer.