Lead Product Designer

Day rate: £450 - £475PD
Start Date: ASAP
End Date: 2nd July
 

We are looking for a highly skilled Lead product designer for a market research data project. This role will suit a designer who feels comfortable leading on strong visual design (with an emphasis on data visualisation) and has a good understanding of UX. This will involve a high level of client engagement and interaction, so strong communication skills are key.

The role:

• Leading an end-to-end product design process
• Strong digital product design visual skills - working in Figma
• Distilling complex themes into easy to understand concepts (more than just bar charts)
• Transforming complex data into stunning visuals, with a talent for making the complex visually simple and easy to understand
• Spotting patterns/stories with data
• Exploring visual concepts and layouts
• Contributing to design systems
• Organised and self-motivated and comfortable working independently
• Visualising and prototyping concepts to varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and validate ideas

You, the Lead Product designer:

• Experience working with an Agile process
• Understanding of responsive web experience
• Working with a cross discipline team of designers, developers and product managers to ensure delivery of high-quality products on time and on budget
• Understand and challenge business requirements where appropriate
• Champion user needs in accordance with product and market strategy
• Maintain awareness and mitigation of project risk
• Engage clients and stakeholders in design solutions that fit their needs
• Understand clients’ design needs and work within those constraints
• Communicate design specifications with other designers and developers; validate and monitor quality output
• Clearly present various stages of interface design development, concepts and ideas to business owners, team members and stakeholders of all levels
• The ability to deal with pressure and can work in a fast-paced environment