Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) with experience in SaaS/IT who will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product management, and company leaders to take products and features from concept to launch.
Understanding our users by leveraging qualitative and quantitative data, serving as their advocate when making design decisions, and contributing at the same time to our Design System initiative by pushing visual excellence and promoting best practices and design standards will be part of the challenge.
Team
Our Product Design team is part of a wider team of experienced software engineers and product strategists. Together we will build the digital backbone of a construction organisation.
Your top 3 objectives
- Drive the conceptualization and execution of intuitive, user-friendly designs that elevate our products, ensuring they meet and exceed user needs and expectations.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to ideate, prototype, and deliver exceptional design solutions aligned with business objectives and technological feasibility.
- Know, use and expand our design system for consistent, scalable, and efficient product interfaces and experiences.
Your top 5 responsibilities
- Design Strategy: Develop and execute innovative design concepts, wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and mockups to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
- User-Centric Approach: Conduct user research, usability testing, and gather feedback to iterate and refine designs, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Collaborative Engagement: Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business goals and user needs into exceptional design solutions.
- Design System Management: Collaborate and maintain our design system to ensure consistency and efficiency in product design and development.
- Documentation and Communication: Create detailed design documentation, guidelines, and presentations to effectively communicate design concepts and solutions.
Your Capabilities
You are a skilled and empathetic product designer with experience in creating user-centric digital products featuring outstanding visual interfaces. Your abilities have the potential to elevate the overall design excellence of our team and organization.
Must-Have (The fundamentals)
- Mastery: Solid level of knowledge on UX/UI principles and patterns, experience in user research and a data-oriented/problem solving mindset.
- Communication: Good communication is much more than saying the right thing. It is about communicating messages clearly and concisely. Ability to choose the best method of communication based on context, audience and urgency.
- Leadership: Can help colleagues achieve goals. Knows how to share his/her knowledge and experience.
- Impact: Over-analysing or over-thinking can be as problematic as not analysing or not thinking. Ability to make decisions and take action.
Nice to Have (If you donโt have it now you will after joining)
- Mastery: Ability to raise the design bar by creating innovative UI, and identifying new opportunities across projects.
- Communication: Presents concerns, doubts or ideas publicly (speaking or writing) and with associated research (internal or external meetups, conferences).
- Leadership: Give us and others constructively critical feedback in order to continuously improve.
- Impact: Ability to drive change, generate knowledge and empower the team.
Shape isnโt the place for you if any of the following is true:
- You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge
- You like to be the smartest person in the room
- You donโt like continuously receiving honest candid feedback
- You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team
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Frequently Asked Questions
Can you tell me more about what the role is like?
We are in scale up mode so it will be a pretty full on role with more things to do than time available. This is why it will be important to prioritise and also develop capacity in the team by hiring and holding the team to the highest standards. We donโt like to mess about so you will need to be a very high performer who only wants to work with others of your ilk.
We are growing rapidly so that means you role will grow rapidly too, you will need to keep up and constantly be looking 1-2 years ahead.
Where would I be working?
All of our roles are 100% remote and home-based. However, if you would like to work in a co-work space to get out of the house we can arrange that. If you are in one of our locations with offices you can come as often as you like.
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Salary and Benefits
Standard Stuff
- Paid Annual Leave 25 days + statutory Bank Holidays
- Flexible hours
- Compensation for this role depends on your capability level and will likely fall in the PHP 1,462,500 to 3,315,000 annual range.
The Life-Changing Stuff
- 4 Day Weeks: Thatโs right, 4 day weeks
- Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to give 5 yearsโ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a coach, mentor, well-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: Thatโs literally what our vision is all about and the primary reason Shape exists
- Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that wonโt be the case in Shape. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in! With Shape, development is unbounded
- Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and outlast us
- A generous equity scheme: as a fast-growing consultancy as well as the fact we are building software this has a huge upside, particularly for people that stay with us through our growth
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Applying properly!! Important!!!
We get thousands of applications so please write us a letter as part of your application explaining:
- Why do you want to join us?
- What do you think you bring to the team?
We aren't a giant faceless corporation; we really care about the people who want to join our team so all letters will be read thoroughly.
After that, we will reach out to you to schedule a casual conversation to help you to know us a bit better and tell us a bit about yourself.
After that, we will schedule a couple of technical and personal assessments to understand what your level of capability is based on our own development matrix. This is to ensure that when you join you are starting at the right level of responsibility based on your capability not just based on experience.
