UI Design (advanced)
We are Insight Guides & Rough Guides - APA
For over 45 years, Insight Guides and Rough Guides have enabled travellers to realise their trips of a lifetime. As a spin-off from the guide books we now provide travellers with an unique online platform to access our unparalleled travel expertise and provide an easy-to-use solution for the planning and booking of amazing travel experiences.
Our travel business is aimed at well-informed middle-to-high-budget individual travellers aged 35 plus. With offices in London and Warsaw and remote staff all over the world, we are a truly global business.
For July 1st / tbd we are looking for a highly motivated mid-level UX / UI Designer (3+ years experience in UX) to join our team and bring our travel platform to the next level.
Specifically, you’ll join us for improving the front door / landing pages and lead generation funnel for our travel platform and for partner brands with a similar product, and later on for development of new product features
Your role
As A UX designer in this role you will be responsible for
translating of business ideas and product visions into feasible features and MVPs
analysing customer journeys, user flows & interactions and information architecture to identify areas to improve the user experience
creating user stories, use case descriptions and user flows along the customer journey
visualising concepts & user interactions for discovery, documentation and implementation (sketches, flowcharts, user story mapping)
creating interactive prototypes and visualisations (Wireframes, Mockups, Sitemaps etc.) to evaluate UX hypotheses
creating UI designs (multiple devices) while building, maintaining and enlarging the UI design system in Figma
assuring / testing the quality of interactions, frontend layers & templates created by development team
contributing to / enabling UX discovery formats
owning your results and creating data driven solutions.
collaborating closely with the product managers for UX work across multiple projects and brands, and with the development team for implementation
Candidate requirements
Essentials - as an ideal candidate you bring the following to the table :
proven UX experience in all stages of user centred concept & design process, including understanding / collecting requirements, sketching, wireframing & prototyping.
experience can be across multiple projects, please cover in portfolio & CV)
3+ years experience in UI design and wireframing / prototyping (provide samples in portfolio)
Strong skills in Figma, ability to create, maintain and enlarge a design system based on initial key designs
Experience in designing both mobile app & web based products
Strong visual design skills, adherence to design principles and proven best practices / good patterns for responsive / adaptive design
Ability to explain your why for interface or interaction choices
Solution-driven & pragmatic mindset focused on achieving outstanding results as a team
Ownership mentality for your projects
Self-organisation skills & planning / estimating tasks
Strong communication and listening skills in order to best capture input / feedback from external and internal stakeholders.
Experience in creating motion or animated visuals is a plus
Fluency in English (German a plus)
Nice to haves
Knowledge of HTML, CSS and bootstrap
Experience in process modelling & diagram visualisation
Experience in animations / animated visuals & micro-interactions
Degree in Human interaction, interaction design or other UX related subjects such as psychology or ergonomics
Our offer
Fully remote position in a distributed team with regular in person sessions
You will be challenged to grow and create with us - your opportunity to learn from experienced team members and grow into the position in an agile environment
Working in a global start-up set to conquer the leisure travel market
If based in Poland : Stable employment based on an employment or B2B contract, LuxMed medical care and / or sport card
If not in Poland, stable, long-term project contract on self-employment basis
Competitive salary plus annual bonus based on achieved targets
I nternational, dynamic and diverse culture located across multiple European cities (mainly in CH, DE & UK)
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We strongly believe that diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities, experience, circumstances, abilities and perspectives leads to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our users.
If you are interested in joining our team, please apply to mail roughguides.com - subject Job application UX Designer with your letter of motivation, CV, portfolio and salary expectations.
