Senior Product Designer w Design Systems experience B2B contract

Location: Portugal Remote

Department: Product Design

Employment: B2B Contract

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our purpose is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our success is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our company is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract inspire develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London Lisbon Porto.

Tasks

About the role:

Were looking for a very experienced hands on Digital Product Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

In this role you will be working alongside a small cross functional team of designers and engineers to help shape a new scalable Design System that will amaze endusers and lead our clients to success so make sure you arrive ready to have an impact.

About you:

We know that everyone cant be good at everything but we expect that you have a solid background in Digital Product Design with a strong expertise in Design System and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms.

Requirements

Youll have the following skills and experience:

• Experience in UX Design Product Strategy UI / Interaction Design;
• Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;
• Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems.
• Experience working with Zeroheight / Supernova (or similar) and Storybook very welcome;
• Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed;
• Experience working with or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would also be a big bonus;
• Coding skills / ability would be a benefit but is in no way essential.

You should:

• Be happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a design language;
• Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easytouse experiences;
• Happily participate in all aspects of product design: Research Sketching Wireframing UI Design Prototyping User Testing etc;
• Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them as well as sharing your own knowledge;
• Love working alongside frontend developers and being a part of a crossfunctional team;
• Believe that product design and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together;
• Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people;
• Be very handson;
• Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team;
• Believe that learning and selfdevelopment never end;
• Want to bring your drive passion and experience to our work and processes;
• Be comfortable working either in a remote environment or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.
• Have great stakeholder management skills and be able to help guide and support the client to success.

What wed like to see from you:

• A portfolio (pdf presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking creativity visual design and Design System experience;
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have;
• All written documents must be sent in English.

Benefits

What youll get in return:

• The chance to work with a forwardthinking ethical and fun group of people and to develop and grow your skills in a fastmoving business.

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (3045 mins)
• Interview & Portfolio Review with Head of Product Design and one Senior Designer (90 mins)
• Call with Client Partner of the Project (1530 min)

We live and breathe our values and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

Were an equalopportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We dont discriminate based on race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation pregnancy or maternity age marital status or disability status. We also believe in worklife balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.