Digital Designer (UI, Website)

Ffern; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative design agency in London is seeking a Digital Designer to enhance UI and website design. The role involves collaborating closely with various teams to maintain brand standards while ensuring a functional and user-friendly experience. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience and proficiency in design software. This role includes flexible working arrangements and an inviting work environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private healthcare

Flexible remote work

Ffern membership

Sociable team events

Modern studio environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience with shareable projects and case studies.
• Experience collaborating with developers and knowledge of HTML/CSS are desirable.
• Ability to balance strategic priorities and functional requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop design on the website while balancing brand and commercial parameters.
• Leverage design systems to create efficient and implementable designs.
• Design user journeys and pages for digital products.

Skills

Adobe CS proficiency

Figma proficiency

UI design

Brand acumen

Communication

Organisation

Job description

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We are looking for a Digital Designer to join Ffern. Focusing on UI and website design, they will sit within our growing design team, reporting to the Design Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Website: maintain and develop design on the Ffern website – deftly balancing brand elevation with commercial parameters, UX and accessibility.
• Components, design systems: leverage repeatable components and clear design systems to make your work efficient, straightforward to implement and easy to iterate.
• Brand: through your work, contribute to a distinctive and cohesive luxury brand of exceptional quality.
• User journeys: working closely with the Digital Product Designer, design pages, forms and functional flows for logged-in ledger members.
• Digital touchpoints: in pursuit of a consistent user experience, contribute to design for additional digital touchpoints including email, forms and social media.
• Special projects: make interdisciplinary contributions (we’re a small, agile and collaborative team)
• Cross-functional collaboration: work closely with the growth, tech and content teams to implement your designs and assess their impact.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience, with projects and case studies you can share to help us understand your work.
• Software: proficiency in Adobe CS & Figma, ideally including animation for UI; experience collaborating with developers and some knowledge of HTML/CSS.
• UI design: the ability to balance strategic priorities and functional requirements with compelling, brand-aligned and concept-driven design.
• Brand acumen: an understanding of and affinity for the world of Ffern; the ability to draw on relevant references to expand and elevate.
• Brand building: the ability to uphold and refine brand principles within UI and beyond.
• Communication, organisation: the ability to work closely with a variety of teams on concurrent projects, prioritising effectively and being an advocate for the role of design in cross-functional processes.
• Healthcare: Private healthcare offered as standard.
• Holidays: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, growing by 1 day per year spent with us.
• Remote work: All full-time London studio roles are three days a week in the studio, with two days flexible (team lunch at a top Hackney eatery if you come in on the flexible days).
• Ffern membership: All of our team are members of the Ffern ledger.
• Team dynamic: Fun, laid-back and sociable team with regular team meals, breakfasts, drinks and outings.
• Beautiful work environment: We work from a pair of sunlit studio spaces off Columbia road with state-of-the-art kit, MacBooks and breakout spaces.

*N.B. Ffern is growing fast, with a plethora of exciting projects on the horizon. This means our roles are somewhat flexible. If you don’t tick every box, but feel passionate about what you could bring to the table, please do apply.