Senior Product Designer

Why Amiqus?

• We support remote, hybrid and flexible working, ensuring you’re provided with the equipment you need to create a comfortable home-office environment
• Access our HQ in Edinburgh / workspaces around the UK with team off sites 
• A collaborative, cross functional (pet friendly) environment working in small teams with autonomy enabling you to deliver meaningful and impactful work
• We offer Vitality private health cover and other private health benefits
• 34 days annual leave
• 12 paid personal development days per year with additional personal training budget and resources allocated to help you learn and grow
• 5% matched contribution, share options and company-wide bonus scheme
• Enhanced modern family leave available to everyone

About Amiqus

Amiqus is a market leading, award winning compliance platform enabling simple, secure access to products and services online. Whether moving home, changing jobs or looking for professional help, we help make the process fast and easy for everyone involved.

We are recognised as one of the UK’s 50 fastest growing tech companies, as ranked by Deloitte Fast50 and part of Tech Nations Future Fifty cohort for 2024.We’re trusted by the Government, NHS and over 600 organisations across sectors in the UK to help people get to work on the things that matter, faster.

What’s important to us? investing in our people, platform and partners to grow an aspirational workplace and a profitable business at scale, creating impact and affecting systems level change, across sectors, borders and economies.

We’re currently around 65 people strong, working in cross functional teams spread across the UK. We expect to double in terms of our scale and impact over the coming twelve months so it’s an exciting time to join us and be a part of our growth.

About the role

Working within our newly formed Key Accounts team, this role will have a focus on designing new features and upgrading existing features of our current and future Amiqus products. 

In addition, some of the key responsibilities will include:

• Create and validate insight-informed design solutions to meet customer, end users  and business goals.
• Identify the most effective design processes, tools and methodologies in collaboration with colleagues and other product designers. 
• Use user workflows, wireframes and prototypes to communicate product-line concepts, narratives, and experience value propositions.
• Own the end-to-end user journey and all aspects of design execution, from ideation, through prototyping and user testing, to final production. 
• Communicate regularly with project partners to gain alignment, resolve issues and articulate the business value of design activities.
• Partner with marketing, operations, product, and tech teams to create great tech products and user experiences within an Agile cross-functional environment.
• You will lead product design in projects within your team and rapidly iterate designs and functionality, collaborating with colleagues to achieve Sprint goals. 
• Deliver final UI design, concepts, flows and prototypes.
• You will interact with our customers in product discovery sessions to better understand the space and problems you’re solving. 
• Developing unique, feasible consumable product solutions which deliver added value to our existing customers, new customers and end users.

About you

At Amiqus, product designers work closely with researchers to understand and investigate the problems and issues our users face. They then ideate and design best ways to solve them. A product designer is responsible for the design of a product, based on direction from business goals and objectives from product management.

The Product designer will translate research, feedback and insight into ideas, concepts and designs that will help us create useful, usable, and delightful new products and features for people as well as continually innovating on our existing products.

• Proven, substantial experience in a similar role within product design.
• Experience working cross-functionally with multiple stakeholders and teams.
• Experience working closely with product management and engineering professionals to make collaborative decisions while championing design, usability and user experience.
• Ability to adapt to a scaling, changing environment and use this in your stride to make key design decisions. 
• Strong product design background with mastery of methodology, tools (i.e., Sketch, Figma), and techniques needed to drive business and human value.
• Understanding of accessibility principles, and experience of applying accessibility best practice to designing desirable, usable products.
• Thorough grounding in principles, methodology and practices of digital product design with proven hands-on experience in a working environment, i.e. UX design, UX research, interface design, mobile app design, interaction design, and/or branding.
• Optional: An understanding of capabilities and limitations of technologies that are used to create powerful interactive experiences eg; HTML / CSS.

Talented people make Amiqus and staying true to our culture is important as we continue to develop and grow. Most importantly, this role will be filled by someone who shares the same values and work ethic as we do.

Our interview process

We think it’s important to have an open and transparent interview process so that you have a clear understanding of what to expect. The process might vary slightly depending on the role type or team you apply to join but it usually goes as follows:

• Internal review of applications
• An initial chat about the role with a member of our People and culture team
• A more structured interview with the team manager and one other team member
• An informal chat with some other team members about the opportunity OR a task based interview with clear direction given
• Role offer
• Onboarding welcome and process kick off with support across the team

Diverse perspectives and people of all backgrounds are welcome at Amiqus. We recognise that building an inclusive workplace requires proactivity and commitment. We acknowledge our moral and legal responsibilities to promote equal opportunities and pursue equality in all of our work.

If we can make preparations to make sure you have a positive interview experience, please let us know.

If this is you and the role sounds like something you would be interested in,  please contact [email protected] for a confidential discussion and attach an up-to-date CV / portfolio.

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