Lead Software Product Designer at Focusrite/Novation shaping software design from discovery to delivery. Collaborating across teams to create award-winning products and experiences.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Product Design, Product Management, Engineering & Marketing teams to help conceptualise and deliver outstanding and award-winning software products and services.
Create and execute user research strategies (both primary and secondary), which yield critical insight and help shape project direction.
Advocate for the end user, ensuring your team’s work is influenced from a deep understanding of users’ goals, needs, pain points, behaviours and contexts.
Develop user stories and use cases, taking user needs and converting them to product requirements.
Design/Ideate both collaboratively and individually.
Lead and participate in design critiques, ideation sessions, and design workshops.
Develop wireframes & interactive prototypes.
Regularly perform UX testing and use both qualitative and quantitative insights to refine the design.
Present your work to your team and project stakeholders.
Work with the team to measure the impact of designs on customers and business goals.
Responsible for maintaining and evolving our software design systems.
Act as a mentor and design partner to other designers – offering guidance and elevating the craft, process, and design thinking across the team.
Requirements
7+ years’ experience within UX/Product Design working on software (desktop, mobile or web)
Degree or relevant qualification in Product Design, User Experience, User Research, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Design or a related field.
Strong portfolio that clearly demonstrates your skills and process.
Excellent visual design skills and attention to detail.
Typography, iconography, and component-based design systems would be beneficial.
Understanding of front-end principles (HTML, CSS, React components) is a plus.
Knowledge of accessibility (WCAG), and platform guidelines (Web, iOS, Android).
Using multiple data sources and research methods (e.g., usability tests, Analytics, A/B testing) to help measure KPI’s to support design decisions.
Setting and measuring performance metrics/KPI’s for the User Experience.
Balancing Design with Scrum/Agile methodologies.
Highly Proficient in Figma for interface design, prototyping, and collaboration. Familiarity with Adobe Creative Cloud tools (e.g., Illustrator, Photoshop), Axure, or Framer is a plus.
Growth mindset, self-motivated, adventurous, and naturally collaborative.
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