Senior UX/UI Designer, Auckland
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BrightSpark Recruitment

Senior UX/UI Designer

  • Posted Today
  • Hybrid
  • Fixed Term Contract

Auckland

Job Description

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

A well regarded global business with Kiwi roots. They offer an exceptional working environment, high profile projects to work on, and fantastic colleagues and leadership.


ABOUT THE ROLE:

As the Senior UX/UI Designer, you'll work alongside multi-disciplinary creative teams and be responsible for the discovery, ideation, design, and validation of web and digital channel experiences across all touchpoints.


Working within the UX Design Team, this role plays a crucial part in challenging and refining the scope and functionality of the company's  digital solutions, actively contributing to the evolution of the Design System, and exploring emerging AI tools to accelerate and enhance the design process.


This role creates and improves premium user experiences across the digital touchpoints, bringing both strategic UX thinking and exceptional UI craft to every engagement.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Translate requirements and user needs into concepts with user stories, acceptance criteria and wireframes
  • Balance the needs of multiple user groups to inform a premium experience
  • Apply brand and design system principles to create engaging, innovative and aesthetically exceptional experiences
  • Bring a high level of creative craft and visual sensibility to all work, ensuring designs reflect the premium quality and attention to detail that sets this business apart
  • Deliver optimised, pixel-perfect, high-fidelity UI designs
  • Conduct design reviews to optimise current solutions
  • Develop responsive design solutions adapted to all relevant devices and screen sizes, ensuring visual accessibility standards are met throughout
  • Create interactive prototypes to communicate intent and improve comprehension
  • Leverage AI tools to explore concepts, accelerate iteration and create rapid interactive mockups for user testing and communicating design intent
  • Manage, utilise and collaborate on the evolution and maintenance of the Design System in Figma (tokens, components, variants, modes, documentation)
  • Build and maintain reusable UI components in Figma, including multi-brand component architecture that supports brand differentiation
  • Collaborate with developers to align components across design and code
  • Plan and conduct user research
  • Gather requirements from cross-functional team members and stakeholders
  • Perform user testing to validate ideation
  • Understand and collaborate within developer workflows to ensure designs are feasible and well handed off
  • Facilitate workshops, alignment sessions and design reviews with cross-functional team and stakeholders

ABOUT YOU:

  • At least 6+ years of UX/UI experience and strengths in both strategic UX thinking and visual UI design
  • Proven experience delivering interaction design for web and touch-based experiences
  • Experience working in a large-scale environment with multiple brands or complex system requirements


WHAT'S NEXT?

We are looking for someone to start mid-November ideally, so don;t delay in applying.  You must be based in Auckland with valid working rights, as this is a 3 day in office position.

Desired Hard Skills

  • UX Design
  • Figma
  • Prototyping
  • UI Design
  • User Testing

Desired Soft Skills

  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Attention to Detail
  • Creative Thinking
  • Workshop Facilitation

Benefits & Perks

Culture

  • 🎂 Birthdays Off
  • 🤱 Extended Parental Leave
  • 🧕 Inclusive Workspace
  • ❤ Care and Appreciation
  • 🩺 Health Insurance
  • 🏋 Gym Membership
  • 🧠 Mental Health Workshops
  • 💪 Physical Health Workshops
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  • 🌏 Sustainability Policy

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