Senior Product Designer

Job Description

Kin + Carta Create (Europe)

Kin+Carta is a global digital transformation business comprised of over 1600 people. We make the journey to becoming a digital business tangible, sustainable, and profitable. Our mission is to create the products, platforms, and services that make the world work better.
Kin+Carta is made up of three core pillar brands; Advise, Create and Connect and we have established presences in Europe and the Americas. At K+C Create Europe we have a mature business – trusted by leading organisations – that creates quality digital solutions delivered by cutting edge software design and engineering. Whilst we operate regionally, we are globally connected and leverage the K+C group network to continuously create the best design, engineering and business practises. The whole of which are responsive to technology trends and market needs in this ever changing digital landscape.

About our Design team

As part of our 20 strong team you'll be working on products and services for some of the world’s biggest brands. We are involved from planning through to execution, becoming an ever-present advocate for the user. You'll help the team to make informed design decisions, placing the needs of the user and the business at the centre of every piece work.

About you

You're primarily focused on human-centred design, backed by a broad knowledge of design patterns, iconography, typography and colour theory. You're concepting and visualising solutions in response to the problems, ideas and opportunities you help extract from users and partners. You drive your design decisions and rationalise them using research data, design principles, prototypes and the resulting user-testing insights. You're most effective collaborating alongside engineers, strategists and other team members to respond to the constraints of any project.

About the role

As a Senior Product Designer you'll be critical to every project you are on; able to draw on your breadth of knowledge in design to influence and lead many of the project's design decisions. You'll also be mentoring other designers, both in day-to-day project activities and as part of more formal career development across the Design team.

All designers at K + C Create are:

• Confident using Sketch, Keynote, Adobe Suite and prototyping tools of your choice.
• Keen to be client-facing, supporting the presentation of their latest design work.
• Inquisitive and eager to continuously improve and learn, through books, articles, meet-ups etc.
• Naturally collaborative, ego-free and able to give and take design critique constructively.
• Familiar with agile methods and terminology, and/or general software dev environments.
• Actively involved in growing the team by finding and attracting design talent.
• Designing, prototyping and building products used by people every day.

As a Senior Product Designer at K + C Create, you:

• Are master of your craft, confident of taking on challenges that you've not tried before.
• Are the gatekeeper of and accountable for the quality of the products you work on.
• Set the agenda and tempo for the more junior members of the Design team.
• Coach other designers to rapidly progress their careers and contribution to K + C Create.
• Provide context and coaching for product and Design team members in ways of working.
• Help define the strategic agenda of the Design team.
• Encourage the product teams to try new approaches and ways of doing things.
• Explore innovative ways of creating ideas, bringing them to life and presenting them.
• Look at the bigger picture to give client and customer context for design decisions.
• Want to present your own thinking, ideas and design work at pitches.
• Use past experience and client knowledge to spot and resolve problems.
• Are confident in taking on challenging conversations and situations to get to the best product.
• Represent K + C Create publicly by participating in talks, events and conferences.

How to apply
Please share examples of your work as PDFs or online case studies with your application. We’re interested in the activities you go through as you research, test and present your thinking and conclusions. For example; use of data, interviews, workshops, sketches, concepts, flows, experience maps, prototypes etc. ‘Finished’ visual designs are not the only focus here. All supplied examples will be handled in complete confidence.

About Kin + Carta Create

As a company, we know it is important to acknowledge the effort our people put in - which is why we have a great range of benefits in place, which increase as people grow and develop within K + C Create. It is one of the many ways we ensure we say thank you, and has lead to us ranking as 'Outstanding' in the independent Best Companies Index and as UK’s Top 25 fastest growing companies. If this sounds like the kind of place you want to work, apply now.
Kin + Carta Create believes in creating a culture where diversity, regardless of its form, is just a part of who we are. We empower every individual to share what matters to them, subsequently creating a culture where every person, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status, is treated as a valued member of K + C Create!