UI/UX Designer
Glass Lewis Europe Limited, Ireland
Job Description
Company Overview
Glass Lewis is the world’s choice for governance solutions. We enable institutional investors and?publicly listed?companies?to make sustainable decisions based in research and data. We cover 25,000+?meetings each year, across approximately 100 global markets.
Our customers include?the majority of?the world’s largest pension plans, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over?$40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific giving us global reach with a local perspective on the important governance issues.
Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco with offices across the US, Europe and APAC regions.
Position
Working within the Product team, you will help create and craft the user experience for Glass Lewis customers. You will use research and product design skills to identify and develop visual solutions to customer problems in existing and new products.
You will work within brand guidelines (colour, aesthetics, shape, font) while also utilizing your own creative capacity and a love for visual storytelling to bring new ideas to the products and branding materials.
Operating in an Agile environment, you will work closely with our engineering teams to produce innovative designs that balance usability with consistency and clarity. Your approach will be to use an iterative design methodology, to constantly test, learn and validate.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop engaging user experiences for a variety of applications utilising user-centred design and related design methodologies.
- Gather requirements, understand user needs, analyse and generate concepts, from sketch to high fidelity designs, feeding into a design system.
- Create original graphic assets (e.g. images, visuals and charts) to translate marketing and branding strategies into successful and engaging creative content.
- Collaborate with customers, product owners, business stakeholder and development teams to design better user experiences, based on research and validated data.
- Evolve the identity and brand of Glass Lewis in visual communications, maintaining a library of design materials for supporting the marketing and sales of our products.
- Drive the design process through iterations, leading design sessions, gaining consensus, and articulating thinking from whiteboard sketches to high-fi interactive prototypes.
- Create product designs, low and high-fidelity wireframes, prototypes, logos, icons, and other design deliverables to convey your ideas and solutions.
- Proactively identify pain points and tackle UX problems for our customers.
- Contribute to process documentation, design guidelines, component libraries, and best practices.
- Use digital standards and style guides to ensure design consistency across products.
- Participate in user research and usability testing and apply learnings to designs.
Requirements
- 3-5 years’ experience in software UI/UX design in an Agile environment.
- Ability to produce low and high-fidelity wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes of designs.
- Experience working within an Agile environment.
- Experience in creating visual assets, including logos, icons, charts, illustrations and presentations.
- Demonstrated experience with UI design and prototyping tools (Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Axure, Adobe XD and similar).
- Strong communication skills.
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite.
- Familiarity with user-centred design and relevant design methodologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Design, Computer Science or relevant field.
Benefits
- Employer pension contribution*
- Private health insurance*
- Life insurance*
- Long term illness cover*
- Supported Study Leave*
*on completion of 6-month probation period