UX / UI Designer

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