Job Vacancy: UI/UX Designer (March 2023)
Date of posting: 11th March 2023
We’re looking for a talented designer with a strong UI/UX background to join our team.
You will have experience in building visually appealing responsive website designs and feel comfortable taking designs from concept to high-fidelity.
You will be working closely alongside our existing design and helping to create modern, mobile responsive websites for high profile clients.
The successful candidate will have a strong portfolio including branding and traditional graphic design, an eagerness to learn, and a positive and hard-working attitude.
You should have a great understanding of what makes a good user experience and be able to contribute ideas and solutions to tricky UX problems and be comfortable producing and working with extensive design systems with reusable components and various element states.
Junior, midweight and senior designers will all be considered. Impress us.
Requirements:
- Excellent design awareness and a solid understanding of typography and branding.
- Excellent communication skills and comfortable having calls and meetings with clients.
- An excellent working knowledge of the common design apps such as Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign
- Strong attention to detail.
- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment.
- A keen approach towards self-learning and development in this role.
- Demonstrable online portfolio.
Responsibilities
- To use your design skills towards the creation of websites, marketing materials and other design products for Pixel Kicks’ large and varied client base.
- Work collaboratively alongside the design and wider creative team to deliver high-quality creative to time, cost and quality standards.
- Work with client and agency branding guidelines to provide concept designs in response to a client brief.
- Work closely with our web developers during the build process of your website designs
- Produce clear visuals to explain a design approach.
- Design to a budget using best practice considerations, and accurately estimate time needed for work.
- Work under pressure to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work on several projects and design jobs simultaneously.
- Ability to both give and receive feedback and direction positively.
- Client-facing and competent in meetings and/or client pitches.
- Support with planning and running design/user journey workshops with clients.
- To work as part of a creative team and self-manage time versus output effectively.
- Keen to learn and develop new skills, and share knowledge with the rest of the team.
Benefits / Perks
- Company pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 22 additional holidays per year, with extra holidays accrued for long service
- Birthdays off
- Hybrid working policy, with up to 2 remote days per week
- “Perks At Work” employee programme offering a range of benefits, discounts and deals
- Training & development plans with the opportunity to grow and progress within the company
- City centre office location in Ancoats
- Regular work social events
- Annual salary reviews in line with own & company performance
- Positive, hard-working and relaxed working environment
- High-spec laptop with a secondary monitor
- 1 Gigabit internet connection in the office
Salary
Competitive salary paid dependant on experience.
STRICTLY NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
Please email your CV through to [email protected].
