UX / UI Designer

Are you an ambitious intermediate UX / UI Designer who wants to step up to senior ranks? Do you want to join a fearless tech business that cleverly connects users with industry professionals, all within a beautiful digital ecosystem with multiple product offerings?

Keen to work in a business with solid financial backing, big budgets, global audiences, alongside mature user experience design, product and engineering teams?

On behalf of our client The Pond Recruitment is searching for a talented UX/UI Designer to join a mature tech start-up.

You’ll be a high-intermediate level UX’er looking to step up into your first big senior status role. You’ll be no stranger to creating intelligent, yet simple user experiences, guided user journeys, and stunning user interfaces that surprise and delight. You could be someone from a digital or experience agency looking to move SaaS/client-side, but still retain variety of work. Or you could be someone wanting to stay client/SaaS-side and looking to work on more complex projects and products, with much bigger budgets.

The day-to-day responsibilities will require you to plan and conduct end-to-end design activities from wireframing to user testing and work collaboratively with the other designers, engineers, and product owners in creating beautiful end-product experiences that cleverly connect users with industry professionals and practitioners.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the development process, sharp design thinking, understand best practices concerning UX/UI, and an innate desire to deliver world-class solutions through collaboration and empathy-led design.

Sound like you? Apply today!

The breakdown

We’re looking for an experienced designer with:

• 5+ years’ experience in UX / UI design
• Aware of all human-centred design best practices – balanced emphasis on UX & UI
• The ability to ensure your design is backed by research and data

Some key responsibilities are:

• Delivering beautiful user digital product experiences in a progressive team environment
• Developing intelligent design systems, and wireframes
• Creating seamless user journeys/experiences based on user research and insights
• Actively take part in design research and usability testing
• An ability to align with the company's visual design typography, desktop/mobile UI, colour, layout, iconography, and aesthetic when considering UX design and how these elements impact product function.
• Experience building and deploying applications or software that encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms.
• Excellent Figma prototyping skills for internal and external product testing – low-fi and hi-fi
• An ability to align with the core product strategy, considering critical success factors and offering recommendations and insight where needed
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects simultaneously while meeting strict deadlines

Are you someone who is:

• A great collaborator and communicator?
• Entrepreneurial spirited and wanting to step up?
• Passionate about your craft and human-centered design?
• Brings style and grace to the way you interact and collaborate
• A balanced blend of strategic and tactical in your approach

The reward

• Competitive salary bracket of $120-140k per annum + KiwiSaver
• Work 1 day per week from home
• Central Auckland office location
• Join a mature and well-funded digital product business

In summary

This is a pivotal career opportunity within a high-achieving and mature start-up environment. This role offers the opportunity to grow your career work on diverse projects, with interesting customers, and a chance to make your mark in a high-performing team!

Apply today

If this role sounds like you, apply today with a brief summary of why you may be interested in this position to Recruitment Director, Will Gregory at [email protected].