Senior UI Designer

Just Eat Takeaway.com; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online food delivery platform is seeking a talented UI Designer to elevate their design system. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams, focusing on creating intuitive interfaces, and maintaining high design standards. This position offers a hybrid work environment in London, where creativity and teamwork are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Prior experience in product design with a focus on interaction design.
• Experience working on large-scale design systems.
• Experience in designing user interfaces for iOS or Android.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and evolve the global design system.
• Support engineers with building the design system.
• Communicate progress with creative and non-creative stakeholders.

Skills

Strong eye for design

Experience in product design

Figma expertise

Understanding of accessibility in design

High-fidelity prototyping skills

Tools

Figma

Principle

Framer

Job description

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery, and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

Over the past year, we have been working incredibly hard to transform our products and services to make them better than ever before - and we are just getting started. Now, we are looking for a talented and motivated UI Designer to join our team of problem solvers and innovators!

At Just Eat Takeaway, we work in cross-functional teams made up of Designers, Researchers, Product Managers and Engineers. The way we work is collaborative and fast-paced. We want to discover what our users will love as soon as we can. We like to explore problems in-depth and we like to get our users to speak with us every few weeks, to explore what we are working on and help us understand their needs.

We are looking for an UI Designer who can take our design system to the next level - creating beautiful and intuitive designs.

While much of your time will be spent working directly on the design system and visual language, you will also be joining a team of 120 creatives, made up Product Designers, UX Designers, UI Designers, User Researchers and Copywriters.

Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from London office or Bristol Office & 2 days working from home

Reporting to: Design Systems Global Manager

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Design systems - You will have key involvement in the global design system. You will be involved in maintaining the design systems that support 90+ designers. This will involve designing components, interactions patterns and writing documentation.
• Evolving the visual language - You will continuously develop and refine the design language, ensuring the highest quality for all our digital products.
• Cross-collaboration - You will support engineers focused on building the design system. You will work closely with iOS, Android and Web engineers ensuring a high level of quality across components, products and platforms.
• Supporting & evangelsing - You will be supporting the rest of the design team and a cross-functional team. Helping them to use the design system and create new components.
• Data-driven - You use qualitative and quantitative data to influence your work. In conjunction with the team, you measure and monitor the performance of the components you work on.
• Communicate - You transparently communicate on your progress and you discuss ideas with your cross-functional team. You present well both within the Design team and to non-creative stakeholders.
• Teamwork - You take a collaborative approach and foster strong working relationships with your team, and with people in the wider Just Eat team, learning from them.

What will you bring to the team?

• A strong eye for design and craft with a highly creative approach to design
• Prior experience in product design, with expertise in interaction design and systems-level thinking
• Experience working on large-scale design system, contributing to design systems and component libraries
• Figma expert with the ability to mentor others
• Experience in designing and shipping consumer products or products for businesses
• Experience collaborating on projects alongside product, research and wider engineering teams, in agile/sprint-based environments
• Understanding of the importance of accessibility in design
• Experience designing user interfaces for both app platforms (iOS or Android) and responsive web
• High-fidelity prototyping skills (Principle, Framer)
• Good understanding of motion principles
• Comfortable presenting to larger audiences and senior stakeholders
• Ability to take ownership, creatively solve problems, and proactively contribute to the objectives of the business

At JET, this is how we play

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

What else are we delivering?

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Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!

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