Senior UX Designer (Fixed Term - 12 Months)

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Product discounts

Staff café

Free on-site parking

Job summary

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd in Auckland seeks a Senior UX/UI Designer for a 12-month contract, based at our Global HQ in Penrose. You will shape premium digital experiences across our web and ecommerce platforms, combining strong UX thinking with exceptional visual design.

You will bring 6+ years in UX/UI design, proficiency with Figma, and experience contributing to a Design System. You’ll collaborate with Digital, Product, Brand, Content, Marketing and Customer Care teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in UX/UI design with strengths in visual and interface design.
• Proven experience designing digital products for web/ecommerce or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of customer journeys and digital commerce impact on outcomes.
• Experience with Figma and robust design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end UX/UI design for web and ecommerce channels.
• Collaborate across Digital, Product, Brand, Content and Marketing teams.
• Contribute to evolving the Design System with tokens, components and documentation.
• Translate customer needs and business requirements into concepts and wireframes.
• Ensure usability and accessibility in digital experiences.

Skills

UX UI design

Visual design

User research

Communication

AI-assisted prototyping

Tools

Figma

Design System

Design tokens

Job description

The Role Fisher & Paykel is one of New Zealand's best-known brands, a global company with a strong heritage and ambitious plans. Our New Zealand origins, curious nature and passion to develop luxury products designed around people are core elements that make us unique. Driven by our brand values of being real, generous, curious and sustainably minded, as a team we take a collaborative approach, have a culture where ideas are heard, and are united in our leading goal to be the world's most human-centred, #1 premium appliance brand. We are entering an exciting new phase in the evolution of our luxury brand, as we expand our presence in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland into a state-of-the-art three-site campus. Our Global HQ in Penrose, Distribution Centre in East Tāmaki and our world leading Global Experience Centre in Grey Lynn. Connected across the Auckland isthmus, our campus sites combine to tell the story of our people, our brand and our future legacy. These bespoke, purpose-built developments located strategically across the region will see Fisher & Paykel create a centre for excellence in appliance design and innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Digital Function as a Senior Designer (UX/UI) on a 12-month contract, based at our new Global HQ in Penrose. Reporting to the UX Practice Lead, you'll work alongside a talented, multi-disciplinary team to create premium digital experiences across our web and ecommerce channels. You'll play a key role in shaping how customers discover, explore and engage with Fisher & Paykel online, combining strong UX thinking with exceptional visual and interface design. This is a hands-on role where you'll contribute across the full design process, from discovery and ideation through to high-fidelity design, validation and implementation. You'll help challenge and refine digital experiences, ensuring they are intuitive, accessible, commercially effective and unmistakably Fisher & Paykel.

You'll bring:

• 6+ years' experience in UX/UI design, with demonstrated strengths in visual and interface design.
• Proven experience designing digital products and experiences, ideally across web, ecommerce or other customer-facing digital environments.
• A strong understanding of customer journeys, digital commerce and how design can create seamless experiences that support both customer and commercial outcomes.
• Extensive experience working in Figma, with robust and disciplined design workflows and file management.
• Experience contributing to or evolving a Design System, including tokens, components, variants, modes and documentation.
• The ability to translate customer needs, business requirements and user insights into compelling concepts and wireframes.
• A strong understanding of usability, accessibility and customer behaviour in digital environments.
• Experience working with developers and an understanding of developer workflows, design handoff and implementation.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to articulate design rationale and build confidence with a diverse range of stakeholders.
• A collaborative and proactive approach, with the ability to work effectively across Digital, Product, Brand, Content, Marketing, Customer Care and other cross-functional teams.
• A naturally curious mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing thinking and propose fresh, forward-looking digital experiences.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools to enhance the design process, including AI-assisted prototyping, generative design exploration and staying current with the rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who cares deeply about the customer and the details. You'll be comfortable working with ambiguity, take ownership of your work from design intent through to implementation, and be motivated by creating digital experiences that are genuinely useful, intuitive and beautifully considered.

What we offer

We can give you the rare opportunity to move into a large, complex global organisation headquartered in New Zealand, where you'll gain wide exposure across the business and work on digital experiences for a world‑leading premium appliance brand. This role offers diverse and exciting challenges, the opportunity to work with talented multi-disciplinary teams and the chance to influence the future of our web and ecommerce experience. Along with a competitive salary and flexible working, as a valued member of our team you'll enjoy generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products, our subsidised staff café and free car parking when you are on‑site. All this, coupled with great leadership and backed by a world‑leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand's most Trusted Brands.

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design. Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Fisher & Paykel has been designing products since 1934 and has grown into a global company with products sold in more than 50 countries around the world. The best innovators don't just understand technology, they understand people. We design technology that enriches and improves people's lives. By challenging conventional appliance design these world-first technologies have changed the way we live forever. Learn more about Fisher & Paykel