Senior Digital Designer

Parallax; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Digital Designer to join their creative team in Leeds. This role offers a dynamic opportunity to work across branding, UX challenges, and interactive digital designs. With at least 5 years of experience, you will lead projects from concept to delivery, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams. Your portfolio should showcase your ability to create impactful digital experiences. Join a vibrant culture that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning, and make a significant impact on diverse client projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of design experience in a team.
• Ability to lead digital design from discovery to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to understand business objectives.
• Drive operational excellence across the design process.
• Mentor and coach other designers in the team.

Skills

Digital Design

User Experience (UX)

Brand Strategy

Prototyping

Visual Communication

Research and Insight

Collaboration

Mentoring

Attention to Detail

Low-code Solutions

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We’re looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior Digital Designer to join our design team here in Leeds. This is a varied role allowing you to flex your creative muscles across branding, UX challenges, content, mobile apps and interactive digital designs.

You’ll need a minimum of 5 years of design experience working in a team and be able to lead on all areas of digital design from discovery scoping to handing off pixel-perfect user interfaces to developers.

Our client base is vast and diverse, spanning different sectors and countries. Many of our clients reach out to a global audience, so you must be able to adapt your design style to build on clients' existing brand guidelines and visual identities or develop new ones altogether.

As a Senior Digital Designer, you must be able to showcase a highly polished portfolio of designs with various digital products and experiences (websites, apps etc.). You must also be able to demonstrate effectively how your UX strategies and/or designs have transformed businesses and delivered results.

Responsibilities

• Engage with key stakeholders to plan and facilitate workshops, ensuring business objectives, aspirations, KPIs and user requirements are understood
• Champion the user and run research and insight exercises to uncover friction points, leading to actionable outcomes
• Participate in design discussions and give feedback during planning and strategy meetings
• Review and recommend common interface and interaction patterns that can be used as reference points for a project
• Quickly turn ideas into sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes
• Work closely with other disciplines in cross-functional teams, collaborating with developers to ensure designs are to spec, and with project managers to work through iterations for clients in a timely and efficient manner
• Drive operational excellence across the design process, from planning and ideation to implementation and deployment
• Contribute to building an open and collaborative culture within the department and the design community
• Mentor and coach other designers in the team while helping to enhance processes and promote a collaborative, feedback-driven culture.

Skills, knowledge & expertise

• A deep understanding of brand values, strategy, messaging and approach to visual communication
• Consider all the visual, interactive elements of a website or product interface and how they positively affect the digital experience
• Deliver best practices around user-centred design processes, user research and experience design
• Understand the role content plays within the user experience and are therefore able to structure information architectures accordingly
• Create and iterate visual prototypes to test and communicate ideas and help the wider team learn about user needs
• Identify and understand constraints and be able to work within them
• Craft and develop innovative digital design experiences underpinned by detailed and accessible design systems
• Present comfortably to senior stakeholders, clearly explaining the recommended approaches and decisions made
• Experienced in typography, layout and composition with an impeccable attention to detail
• Display a learning mentality, keep track of industry trends, and have a constant desire to improve your skills and learn from the experience of the wider team
• Have the ability to work directly from brand guidelines or revise them so they’re fit for purpose
• Interest and experience in low-code solutions such as Webflow
• Commercially aware, balancing business objectives with client and end-user needs to deliver impactful solutions

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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