Senior Product Designer

Job Title: Product Designer (UI/UX)

Client Location: Central London (3 days onsite per week)

Starting: ASAP

Salary/Pay Rate: £99k per annum, pro rata (PAYE Only)

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 12-month contract

Our social media client is looking for a Product Designer to join a team of senior and talented designers as they work on our client's flagship advertiser product, used by millions of businesses around the world. This product is at the heart of the company's business and drives most of its revenue. In this role, you will be focused on improving the end-to-end experience of the product for iOS and Android.

It's a design-heavy area with a massive opportunity to drive meaningful changes for advertisers. You'll be expected to utilise your full range of product design, interaction design and visual design skills while contributing to high-level strategic decisions with product and executive partners.

This is a 12-month contract position. Our client operates on a hybrid model where you’ll be required to work onsite in their Central London office 3 days per week. The role offers an attractive rate of up to £47.60 per hour, equivalent to £99,008 per annum, pro rata, and comes with up to 33 days of holiday per annum, pro rata, inclusive of 8 bank holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for the 2 billion-plus users
• Design flows and experiences that simplify and distil down complex actions into usable interfaces
• Design new experiences or layouts that evolve and define visual systems
• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of products
• Give and solicit feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually improve for quality
• Drive a partnership with product managers, engineers, researchers and content strategists in order to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch
• Willingness to represent work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts.

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience building and shipping multiple features that are broad/ambiguous in scope and encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms
• Product design experience for iOS and Android
• Experience in the tech industry, dealing with large cross-functional teams
• Interaction design experience with knowledge to define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this product will scale. Use appropriate prototyping tools to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
• Visual design experience with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
• Strategic product thinking with experience in developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact to people and the company

We’d love you to apply for this Product Designer role, so please submit your CV and portfolio today!

*This role is open for a limited time. Next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates ASAP. Due to the high volume of applicants, we may be unable to reply to each applicant individually. If you have not received a response within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have not been selected for progression to the next stage of the hiring process.

Client Description

Our Client is the largest social media company in the world. They have substantial B2B and B2C advertising and media platforms, as well as a nonprofit initiative. With the mission of bringing people together, they now boast over 2 billion users, and are rapidly developing as they influence the world around us.

Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.