Product Designer - User Interface Researcher / Designer

Job Title: Product Designer - User Interface Researcher / Designer

Location: London

Job Type: Contract

Experience: 5+ years

Introduction:

We are committed to building a better future for smokers who would otherwise continue to smoke. Our Smoke-Free Products organization is focused on creating a Smoke-Free Future, and reducing the harm caused by tobacco by offering reduced risk nicotine products.

As a Product Designer - User Interface Researcher / Designer, you can make your own powerful contribution to our social responsibility innovation programme. Bringing a relentless focus on delivering the right outcomes for our users, you'll be part of the Design delivery team within our Global Studios. This is a high-profile, high-impact role. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in UI/UX design, a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality visual design, and a passion for solving complex design problems.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with product managers, business stakeholders and technologists to understand and act upon key business requirements
• Contributing to new feature definitions and exploration from concept through execution within an integrated team that meets business needs, user needs and technical capabilities
• Delivering design via concept sketches, wireframes, and ultimately production-ready comps
• Designing for motion/transition to enhance the feel of the resulting interfaces
• Creating and evolving consistent affordances across the product set to enhance and standardize the usability of the interfaces.
• Partnering with other UX/UI designers and developers to deploy user-friendly mobile-first customer experiences
• Seeing product additions/enhancements from concept or research to deployment and optimization
• Assisting Senior Design team in creating design rationale and specifications
• Advocating for clean, simple user-centred interfaces
• Iterate rapidly on proposed designs based on user feedback.
• Consult with stakeholders, design team members, end users and developers on UI best practices.
• Solve unique UI challenges facing our users and products teams using modern design paradigms based in design theory.
• Hybrid role requiring office collaboration 2 days a week at our fantastic studio next to St Pauls, central London.

Requirements:

• Good working command of Figma, and DS delivery, and at least 1-2 higher-fidelity prototyping/motion tools such as Principle, InVision Studio, After Effects, or the like.
• Experience designing solutions for mobile-first responsive design (app-only and desktop-only is not preferred)
• Strong capabilities in overall visual composition: typography, spacing, placement, hierarchy - and creating consistent affordances that enhance the usability - and ultimately delight - of the resulting product. These should rely on text, colour, and other systematic elements to convey usage.
• Experience creating simple, usable experiences within a complex systems environment - ones that leverage large amounts of content/data but provide a simple, intuitive interface for applications or other types of transactional interfaces
• Some experience/aptitude in UX design (ability to create simpler sitemaps, journeys, etc)
• Success creating and launching work in a large product program, with product managers, engineering, and design
• Experience working in a production environment, owning detailed deliverables (comps, motion parameters, etc) needed for engineering to execute a design
• A passion for simplicity, user.
• Must be located in London and eligible to work in the UK.

What we can offer

An environment that rewards entrepreneurial spirit - We will provide you with the space to explore elements of your specialism. Every new initiative is embraced and supported:

• Work and life balance - We understand that everyone has varied lives and we want you to have a great work-life balance. So, where possible encourage you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.
• Well-being and culture - We're passionate and committed to creating an environment that enables everyone to prioritise their wellbeing.
• Positive societal impact - We're serious about having a positive societal impact across all our products and interactions.