Senior Product DesignerLocation: London Salary: £45,000 to £55,000
Senior Product Designer
Location: London Salary: £45,000 to £55,000
Have you seen one of these movies or TV series? Star Wars the Last Jedi. Doctor Strange. 007 Skyfall. Empire. Wonder Woman. The Crown. Some of the worlds biggest production companies used POP platform to produce these shows. Pretty cool right?
We are POP and we are leaders in digital Film and TV production. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer, with a UX focus to help us boost our platform’s user experience and continue to innovate and transform the film and TV industry.
The film and tv industry is one of the last frontiers of digitisation. Despite all the cutting edge technology used for special effects, behind the scenes, most production companies are still working with pen, paper and email. We can proudly say that we are changing all of that. We are the first online, B2B platform where production companies can Find > Book > Manage > Pay all of their production people like cast, crew and extras.
Backed by world class early-stage investors and based in Shoreditch, we recently launched in the US and have big ambitions for 2018. Having recently raised £2M in seed funding and launched in the US, POP is now driving into the next stage of growth. We already touch 50%+ of the UK market and have our sights set on expanding that and our production and crew offering exponentially, as make a big mark on the US this year alone.
Do you love: wireframes, information architecture, analytics, competitive analysis, personas and users profiles? Navigation models, user tests, user interviews, customer feedbacks, liaising with 15 developers and eating biscuits? If yes, then we should definitely talk.
The platform has a high level of complexity, with numerous moving parts and thousands of daily users. That means that we often have to be crafty and pragmatic in order to keep the engine running while improving the user experience, repair broken parts while also launching new features and components, in the UK and our new territories.
We are looking for someone who is really passionate about UX, with experience of building or iterating platform experiences in a start-up environment – that taught them how to be flexible and get the job done.
So, about the role:
As the senior designer in the team, you will have responsibility for:
Design Outputs
- Own the front end design and user experience across our product suite, as well as the information architecture, navigation and the way in which the user engages with the functionality of the platform
- Lead research and discovery, and define the UX for an entirely new product set, that leverages the learnings and some components of our existing platform, to growth hack the launch. This includes, rapid prototyping and MVP design and iteration
- Determine the appropriate level and type of user research, concept testing, and usability testing to validate roadmaps working with data, identifying patterns in complex information without losing the big picture of our business strategy
- Develop and manage UX Strategy to form the basis of digital experiences and maintaining a coherence of interaction and Brand behaviour
Design as a function
- Take ownership, initiative and accountability for the design practice, process and outputs within the product team
- Own the design processes both within and across product and engineering
- Inspire and manage a junior designer within the product team supporting them with their growth and development
Design across the business
- Report directly into the Head of Product and support with the development of a design culture at POP within product, and across the business
- Uplift developer and product understanding of UX principles and design systems
- Work with the product managers and user team on user reach, qualitative analytics reviews to identify and rectify points of friction
- Coordinate with product managers to deliver and test prototypes and MVP’s, to enable data led design decision making
- Cooperate with QA to ensure that the build outputs are of a high enough quality
- Work with Product Managers to decide on KPIs to measure design benefits of your solutions, and plan and implement creative ways to collect and analyse customer behaviours that will inform the design of key product features
- Build influence and trust across the business – collaborate with the user team on user needs, and with engineering on execution and delivery
You should apply if you have:
- Experience as a Senior UX or Product Designer
- Expert skills using Sketch/Invison/Balsamiq/Product/Rapid Prototyping
- An understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Experience of senior level ownership: having worked with and been credible and respected by full stack developers, ensuring that designs are implementable
- Proven track record of both web and mobile app based to a senior design level
- Experience working in a product design function, including the use of style guides, design systems, atomic design principles, sketch and zeplin
- Worked with engineers to improve a design process, and experience cultivating strong relationships with engineering teams
- You will have successfully managed other designers
- A proven understanding of customer centric design approaches is essential
What you will receive:
- The opportunity to grow into a ‘head of design’ role within 6 months
- The opportunity to define and implement the UX strategy for an entirely new product
- A fun, friendly and supportive working environment with an established and creative team who are truly unique and invested in our vision
- A chance to be in a Hollywood film as an Extra (as part of your training)
- Fabulous offices based in Shoreditch, and dress down everyday
- Flexible working hours
- Perkbox benefits (healthcare, discounts etc after successful passing of probation)
- An opportunity to play with our office dog Phoebe whenever you want!
- Owning the front end design and user experience across our product suite, as well as the information architecture, navigation and the way in which the user engages with the functionality of the platform
- Lead research and discovery, and define the UX for an entirely new product set, that leverages the learnings and some components of our existing platform, to growth hack the launch. This includes rapid prototyping and MVP design and iteration
- Develop and manage UX Strategy to form the basis of digital experiences and maintaining a coherence of interaction and Brand behaviour
- Take ownership, initiative and accountability for the design practice, process and outputs within the product team
- Inspire and manage a junior designer within the product team supporting them with their growth and development
- Uplift developer and product understanding of UX principles and design systems
- Work with the product managers and user team on user reach, qualitative analytics reviews to identify and rectify points of friction
- Coordinate with product managers to deliver and test prototypes and MVP’s, to enable data led design decision making
- Cooperate with QA to ensure that the build outputs are of a high enough quality
- You should apply if you have:
- Experience as a Senior UX or Product Designer
- Expert skills using Sketch/Invison/Balsamiq/Product/Rapid Prototyping
- An understanding of HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- Proven track record of both web and mobile app based to a senior design level
- Experience working in a product design function, including the use of style guides, design systems, atomic design principles, sketch and zeplin
- You will have successfully managed other designers
- A proven understanding of customer-centric design approaches is essential