Product Designer

Description:

Product Designer
Contract until December initially
£485 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid/East London 2 days per week

My client in the automotive industry are looking for an experienced Product Designer to join their fast-paced team on an initial contract until the end of the year.

This is a Lead Product designer position within Enterprise Connectivity/Mobility Europe. The Lead Product Designer will work as part of a Balanced Team and collaborate with a Product Owner, Product Manager, Engineers and Junior UX/UI Designers to deliver projects and features to support this. This is a senior role on the team and would be looking to mentor and grow more junior members. The Designer will be working within a team responsible for the company's bespoke app. This app is for those who rely on their vehicles for their work, enabling them to manage up to five vehicles from a single screen.

Skills Required: IA, Wireframing, Prototyping, UI Design, Usability Testing, Generative research methods, User interviews, Design Strategy, Omnigraffle, Sketch, Adobe CS, Invision, Principle, Origami, Adobe XD, Zeplin, Abstract, Figma Skills Preferred: Jira, GitHub, an understanding of HTML / CSS / JS and APIs.

Experience Required:
Strong experience in related field.
Degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Experience in training, mentoring, and/or upskilling designers
Have experience designing applications, from consumer-facing to business applications.
Guide product decisions through user research, customer development, and iterative feedback loops.
Bring together a user-centred approach with business needs and technical feasibility.
Bring deep experience in at least one of the following facets of design: user research, service design, interaction design, and data driven design.
Have experience and curiosity within agile and lean philosophies.
Have experience working independently with stakeholders in a consulting role.
Have experience contributing on cross discipline teams (e.g. working closely with engineering and Product Managers)
Build and support a positive, impact-oriented, and well-balanced product design team. You'll help the designers who report to you grow and accomplish more by setting clear goals, providing direct feedback, managing project loads and allocating designers accordingly, and ensuring deadlines are met.

Experience Preferred:
Have experience enabling stakeholders in user-centred design best practices.
Interest in delivering talks/seminars on design to relevant stakeholders.
Experience in systems thinking and designing complex multi-sided systems.
Experience with data visualization
Understanding of commercial KPIs and the interlinkage with user metrics (design constraints)
Experience in defining and implementing the product strategy to ensure both quantitative and qualitative customer feedback is driving product plans and design decisions
Be responsible for design excellence. You'll advocate for robust UX frameworks, foster a healthy feedback culture, strike the right balance of design quality and pragmatic progress, and help your team value building great user experiences as an essential part of achieving business goals.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change