Senior Digital Designer

Job Description

About 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.

We have now expanded our offering and opened an office in Edinburgh - become one of the pioneers for our new move!

The Senior Digital Designer role in a nutshell:

As a Senior Digital 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 as we grow, both in day-to-day project activities and as part of more formal career development across the Design team.

You're primarily focused on human-centred design, backed by a broad knowledge of design patterns, iconography, typography and colour theory. You concept and visualise 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.

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

The type of person we would love to meet:

• A master of your craft, confident of taking on challenges that you've not tried before
• You love to coach other designers to rapidly progress their careers and contribution to K+C Create
• You provide context and coaching for product and Design team members in ways of working
• You help define the strategic agenda of the Design team
• You encourage the product teams to try new approaches and ways of doing things
• You are excited to explore innovative ways of creating ideas, bringing them to life and presenting them
• You look at the bigger picture to give client and customer context for design decisions
• You want to present your own thinking, ideas and design work at pitches
• You pull on past experience and client knowledge to spot and resolve problems
• You are confident in taking on challenging conversations and situations to get to the best product
• You are passionate about representing K+C Create publicly by participating in talks, events and conference

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.

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!