Product Designer (Contract)

What you will be doing

• Evolving the UI and UX of the current Stint business app, Stinter app, and other Stint-internal applications 
• Designing new features large and small for these applications, with the potential to own the UIX of entirely new products, services, and revenue streams
• Balancing Stint’s need to ship fast and win the market with best design practices for consistent, scalable design 
• Collaborating with key stakeholders in Product Management and across the business to define commercial success metrics for your designs - embracing a TEST, LEARN, ADAPT mindset to UIX 
• Advocating for then owning the user research, ideation, planning, and delivery process that best suits each product iteration or new feature
• Continually improving Stint HQ’s understanding of our Stinters and business partners’ needs 
• Working closely with the Frontend and Backend Engineers to ensure that the product design outputs are fit for purpose, optimised for ROI, and meet defined criteria for performance
• Liaising with other departments to ensure design, branding, and theming is consistent across all functions, including Marketing
• Advocating for design by presenting your work cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale
• Integrating qualitative and quantitative data into design work
• You will be the sole designer working on a product team of 4, reporting into the Senior Product Manager
• You will be frequently collaborating with both front and back end engineers

Who you will be

• 3+ years of experience designing and shipping impactful products at scale
• Practical, practicable knowledge of Product Design principles and processes. Strong sense of product design, from high-level strategic direction down to UI design details
• Ability to balance process and pragmatism - you know how to weave best practices into your work, whilst moving at a fast pace (we are a start-up!)
• Excellent problem-solving skills. You know how to get to the heart of the problem when hearing people talk about their symptoms
• Comfortable running workshops, talking to senior stakeholders across the business, and taking ownership over the design process
• Self-motivated and able to efficiently run with a project without close supervision
• Knowledge of technical constraints and implementation
• Ability to work rapidly and effectively on individual projects, and as part of a team
• A passion for building great products, and a strong sense of initiative!
• Experience with Sketch / Figma / Abstract and prototyping software
• A strong portfolio of past work, which includes detailed mockups and interactive prototypes

• Past experience designing apps for both iOS and Android, as well as web platforms (e.g. iOS human interface guidelines, Android Material guidelines)
• Experience with running usability tests and interviews with users
• Previous experience at startups, embedded in cross-functional teams

What we can offer you

• Social, friendly and welcoming team 
• Unlimited holiday allowance
• Flexi & hybrid working options
• Office gym membership
• Gifted shares after completing probation
• Dog friendly office