Overview
UX / UI Designer Jobs in Remote at Bluegrass Digital
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR
We are looking for an experienced UX / UI DESIGNER to join our team and drive the creative direction within the business and projects. You should understand ‘big picture’ strategic thinking and be able to help conceptualise, problem solve and manage stakeholder conversations during the initial sales process; client design workshops; and throughout the creative process, ensuring that all our designs talk back to the client’s business requirements and project objectives.
At Bluegrass we love and use Figma as our design tool, and we need you to have deep experience with Figma. Creating beautiful, modern and highly creative UI designs is the primary skill we need from you, as we do have strong UX experience within the team to assist with the UX process.
You will be supported by and will work closely with our Head of Product and Solutions Director.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Minimum of 2+ years’ experience working within a similar creative software development environment or a product development team
Design related qualifications
Proven experience with design workshops, where you interact with clients and unpack project requirements and business problems
Experience interacting with clients and able to unpack project requirements and business problems
Experience architecting and structuring Figma projects – is essential
Experience creating beautiful, modern and highly creative UI designs, for both Websites and Mobile App projects, within Figma
Experience using Google’s Material Design system – is advantageous
Experience implementing a Design System – is very advantageous
Experience creating and designing corporate branding, logos and CI guidelines – is advantageous
Ability to write code (HTML / CSS) – is advantageous
Experience using JIRA as a project management tool – is advantageous
Experience with WebFlow – is advantageous
Ability to design and code HTML mailers – is advantageous
Ability to create professional branding videos and showreels – is very advantageous
Good interpersonal and communication skills to lead clients through the creative process
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Interact with clients and scope project requirements and business problems and propose solutions
Assist the sales process with creative pitches to help win new business
Master and use Figma as your primary design tool and then also the Adobe CC Suite
Create UX wireframe/prototypes using Figma
Present both your UX prototypes and UI Designs to clients in a clear and professional manner, explaining how we’ve solved and achieved the project objectives
Passionately stay abreast of new design trends, concepts and designing for digital, web and mobile experiences and explore these trends actively on a regular basis.
Master designing for Mobile App development (iOS & Android) and understand the design implications to cater for various types of screen sizes and orientations
Understand the importance of Design Systems and make recommendations as to how Bluegrass can become more efficient within our internal design processes, by proactively using provided learning platforms (i.e. www.uxcel.com) to improve your skills
Master Google’s Material Design system and employ its guidelines, components, and tools that support the best practices of user interface design
Create and design corporate branding, logos and CI style guides
Assist clients and project managers to select themes to use for projects (i.e. WebFlow and Wordpress) where you can easily skin design files (where required)
Master Bluegrass project management tools like JIRA and our creative processes
Provide design estimates that can be used to create accurate project cost estimates and project timelines.
Accurately track your time logs daily using Bluegrass tools and standards
Advantageous is an understanding of HTML & CSS to propose solutions from a functional design perspective
Assist the marketing team to create website content; social media and case study assets to showcase our work
Assist with Award entry submissions
Conceptualise and input into our Bluegrass branding videos and showreels
Title: UX / UI Designer
Company: Bluegrass Digital
Location: Remote
