As an experienced UI/UX Designer, you will help to refine our design process and ultimately our digital products. As a senior member of the team, you will support and advise others in the team so we can reach our common goals quicker.
What Canstar offers
- Supportive and flexible working environment
- Birthday leave
- Free breakfast and fresh fruit
- Employee Assistance Program
- Monthly massages
- Fun social club and company culture
What you will be doing
The key responsibilities and duties of the UI/UX Designer Team Lead are;
- Conceptualise and deliver beautiful usable ideas and solutions in a succinct format
- Design web ready interfaces for Canstar digital properties
- Collaborate, educate and work with the team to ensure best practice across design and visualisation
- Evaluate and continually improve existing interfaces
- Write research objectives, gather insights via interviews and help facilitate website testing
- Gather quantitative user data to improve design decisions by testing the hypotheses in an iterative manner
- Communicate visual designs such as product interfaces from sketching, wireframing, interactive prototyping, through to high fidelity mock-ups
- Design interactivity of each UI element ready to hand over to developers and assist with integration
- Timely project and team management
What you need to bring to the role
- Background in design with a relevant degree
- 3 – 5 year’s experience in a similar role
- Demonstrated portfolio of inspired, innovative and effective UX design work
- Love of design and up to date awareness of industry trends
- High proficiency with visual design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and prototype tools like Framer, Principle, Invision etc
- Self-starter with strong time management and organisational skills, with the ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
- High attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Experience in designing mobile first for the responsive web
- Excellent project and team management skills
What will give you the extra edge
- Experience in eCommerce, finance, insurance, or similar.
- Good understanding of the tech stack - Angular 2, JS, JSON, CMS's, Mongo DB including an understanding of the relationship between front end & backend systems
- Experience working in a Scrum team
- Experience with taking a Lean UX approach
- Experience building or working on a design system / pattern library
- Experience in writing spec documentation for a developer
How can you join our team
If this sounds like you, and you are up for a fresh challenge with a great company, please click apply now and ensure that your CV and cover letter has been uploaded to your profile.
Please contact Emily Conaghan via careers@canstar.com.au for general enquiries.