Design Coordinator

hackajob; Stoke-on-Trent; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment agency is seeking a Design Coordinator to oversee the design lifecycle, ensuring timely completion of projects while maintaining high standards. Successful candidates will have solid project coordination experience and strong organizational skills, managing multiple projects effectively. This role includes gathering requirements, facilitating communication across teams, and ensuring compliance with legal standards. The position is eligible for hybrid working, providing flexibility in a fast-paced creative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced creative environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proactive approach to overcoming project challenges.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the design lifecycle to ensure projects are completed on time.
• Gathering requirements and setting project goals with stakeholders.
• Maintaining comprehensive project documentation for transparency.

Skills

Project coordination experience

Organizational skills

Analytical abilities

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Sketch

Jira

Job description

Overview

hackajob is collaborating with Bet365 to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

Company Description

At bet365, we're one of the world's leading online gambling companies, revolutionising the industry since 2000. Founded by Denise Coates CBE, we now employ over 9,000 people and serve over 100 million customers in 27 languages. Our focus on In-Play betting has solidified our market-leading position, offering an unmatched experience across 96 sports and 700,000 streaming events. With over 750 concurrent sporting fixtures at peak and more live sports streamed than anyone else in Europe, we handle over 6 billion HTTP requests daily and process more than 2 million bets per hour at peak.

We empower our employees to push boundaries and explore new ideas, cultivating a culture that celebrates and rewards creativity. This offers employees a wealth of opportunities for growth, giving them the opportunity to make a real impact in the world of online gambling. As a forward-thinking company, we’re breaking new ground in software innovation too, redefining what’s possible for our customers worldwide.

Job Description

As a Design Coordinator, you will facilitate both the product and brand design process, guiding projects from discovery through to implementation.

The Design and UX department is responsible for the user experience and implementation of new features, whilst continually enhancing our existing products. The team acts as the custodian of our brand, carefully considering all design decisions with both user and business requirements in mind.

Working within the coordination function, you will be responsible for organising workflow within the department, ensuring that design projects transition smoothly throughout the design lifecycle and beyond.

Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, you will gather complex requirements, plan and coordinate projects effectively, and manage realistic delivery expectations.

This role is eligible for inclusion in the Company’s hybrid working from home policy.

Qualifications

• Solid project coordination experience, preferably in a fast paced, creative environment.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and overcoming project challenges.
• Adaptive to changing priorities and feedback while maintaining a positive and collaborative approach.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to guide cross-functional teams in a collaborative and productive work environment.
• High attention to detail with a commitment to maintaining high-quality design standards throughout the project lifecycle.
• Good understanding of our products, features, offers, and brands.
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Sketch, Jira.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies, such as HTML/CSS.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the design lifecycle, ensuring projects are completed on time and to a high standard.
• Working closely with key stakeholders to gather requirements, set project goals and estimates, facilitate design sign off, and ensure alignment throughout the design process.
• Managing the workflow of design projects, prioritising tasks, allocating resources effectively, arranging design feedback sessions and project handovers.
• Facilitating clear and effective communication between cross-functional teams, ensuring that all parties are informed of project status, changes, and expectations.
• Maintaining comprehensive project documentation to ensure transparency.
• Identifying potential challenges in the design process and proactively developing solutions to keep designers unblocked and projects on track.
• Scheduling regular catch-ups with designers to troubleshoot any design support questions and to resource their activities.
• Facilitating the interaction between the designers, frontend and UI developers to arrange prototypes.
• Ensuring all relevant teams are engaged for new products, features and brand work, and request translations where necessary.
• Ensuring regulatory and legal compliance is obtained where necessary for all design artefacts.

Additional Information

By applying to us you are agreeing to share your Personal Data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice - https://www.bet365careers.com/privacy-policy

At bet365, we're committed to creating an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued. Where all individuals can grow and develop, regardless of their background. We're Never Ordinary, and we're always striving to be better. If you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please don’t hesitate to reach out.