Lead UX Designer - Human Computer Interaction (5-10 yrs)

Our Team Vista is the go-to partner for millions of small businesses who need to promote themselves effectively in the modern age.

With tools that empower brands to create their unique identity and expert design support when they need inspiration, we provide a range of digital and print services at every stage of their journey.

To help customers bring their visions to life, we need UX professionals skilled at crafting the right features and experiences - that's where you come in.

What You Will Do

Job Description :

We're looking for a Lead UX Designer to join us in the Logo & Brand domain within Vista, where we design the tools and experiences to help small businesses get a logo and brand that they love.

Our ambitious goal is to give small businesses the best chance of success, enabling them to create a logo and brand they love and providing a home for it to thrive through print, digital and social touch points. The experiences we design help small businesses look and feel professional and successful and in turn, we help Vista become the design and marketing partner for small businesses the world over.

In this role you will :

- Lead all design activities for your product team including planning, scoping and research. Handles difficult information and builds consensus.

- Drive the user experience of the Logo & Brand tools from conception to launch, utilising user-centred design methods to craft industry-leading designs.

- Lead the visual style of the experience, pushing quality, consistency and visual flair across the domain. Use our design system creatively to produce new designs and where appropriate new styles and patterns that are visually cohesive with the rest of the brand's experience.

- Be hands-on at every stage of the design process-from discovery through detailed design, execution, and iteration-creating user flows, wireframes, pixel-perfect designs, and prototypes along the way to bring ideas to life.

- Shape and contribute to the product strategy and vision. Partner with product managers to influence the prioritisation of initiatives based on customer insights. Contribute to the development of new products from ideation, opportunity assessment, opportunity development/discovery, business case development, iterative delivery, launch and go to market activities.

- Contribute to the culture of the Logo & Brand Design team by identifying and driving the execution of design-driven projects and initiatives that have a cross-team impact.

- Work with data, consumer insights, and UX research partners for foundational guidance on product direction, and new concept validation.

- Provides clear, structured design explanations to immediate and cross-functional team members with confidence and excels in stakeholder communication and mentoring juniors.

- Networks with senior experts internally and externally

- Ensure cohesiveness with the Vista design system and marketing brand guidelines.

- Share and evangelise user-centred design methods across the team.

What you'll bring :

We value the unique experiences that individuals add to our team and we look forward to learning more about you!

- 5 - 8+ years of experience designing digital products as a UX or Product Designer, preferably in cross-functional agile product teams.

- 4+ years of experience working collaboratively with product, engineering, design, content and user research teams.

- Strong portfolio showcasing UX and design skills through multiple case studies demonstrating user-centred and innovative design solutions with measurable outcomes for users and the business.

- Ability to build strong relationships with cross functional peers, including designers, product managers, researchers and engineers.

- Experience leveraging quantitative and/or qualitative data to inspire simple design solutions and decisions to complex customer and business problems.

- Ability to move between high level design and detailed design, and between future concepting and near-term implementation.

- Passion for designing simple solutions to complex consumer and business problems.

- Ability to clearly and confidently present design concepts and solutions to a variety of audiences and accept and interpret constructive feedback. - Highly skilled with type, hierarchy, colour, composition, contrast, and other design fundamentals.

- Passion for design trends, tools, processes, and methodologies, and a willingness to learn and share new ideas with the team.

- Expertise in the latest design software to create high-fidelity mock-ups and prototypes.

- Experience working with globally distributed teams, and/or in highly matrixed organizations.

Nice to have :

- Relevant degree in the field of Design or HCI.

- B2C e-commerce experience.

- Ability to plan, moderate, and complete a variety of goal-oriented workshops across collaborators, leading to exciting new ideas, new-found consensus, and critical alignment.

- Experience designing across responsive web and native mobile platforms, as well as within large-scale digital ecosystems.

- Experience identifying and prioritizing features, as well as participating in complex roadmap planning.