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Lead Product Designer - Freelance

We are looking for a highly skilled lead product designer with a background in product proposition development, with strong visual craft. You have experience in building compelling mobile applications and feel comfortable leading designers. This will require a high level of client stakeholder engagement and interaction, so clear communication skills are critical.

Tenure

Starting late Sept for a 12 week discovery with a view to extending if the project expands

Location

This role is expected to be fully remote, UK or CET or EET time zones.

Key Skills

• Core strength in leading an end-to-end product design process, providing design leadership to develop the right product proposition
• Leading internal and client workshops
• Experienced in user research, synthesis research and concept testing
• You are comfortable with planning, prioritising, conducting, analysing, and communicating research, and turning the output into something that can drive informed product design decisions
• Confident working in Figma
• Strong digital product design visual skills a must
• Comfortable working within an existing design system
• Must have native mobile experience
• Organised and self-motivated and comfortable working independently
• Visualising and prototyping concepts to varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and validate ideas

Working practices

• Experience working with an Agile process
• Working with a cross discipline team of designers, developers and product managers, business strategists to ensure delivery of high-quality products on time and on budget
• Understand and where appropriate challenge business requirements to 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