Product Designer

Responsibilities:

• Product- UX & UI design. As our first design hire, you must be a strong individual product designer: you'll be involved at every stage of design work. You'll cover the full spectrum of software UX &UI design, from helping define early product concepts, to wire-framing the high-level workflow, to de-risking critical micro-interactions of features, to creating high-fidelity blueprints that frontend developers can use. You’ll also build out a crisp and effective visual design system, ensuring it remains consistent across our products. You should have experience using industry standard design tools such as Figma.
• User research. Alongside having strong visual craft, you’ll need to work and empathise with our users. You’ll run and observe user research in the user’s environment, which might mean sitting in a muddy field with them. You’ll focus on the problems they experience, and feed back into the design and the product to help solve them.
  
• Collaborating with the Engineering team. You don’t need to know how to write code, but you need understanding of and keen interest in technical architecture, and how that effects the feasibility of your designs. You’ll work closely with engineers from the rapid prototyping stage all the way through to release, ensuring that elegant design goes hand-in-hand with pragmatic engineering.
  
• Partnering across the wider company. Beyond Engineering, you’ll work with our Product and Strategy and Partnerships team to understand user needs and contribute to the wider product vision and direction.
  
• Defining the design processes. Following industry best practices, but still pushing the envelope using modern technology and tools, you will setup slick and efficient processes for the whole design cycle at Softplicity.
  
• Building the team. As the company grows, you will help identify, recruit and onboard additional design talent into the team.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years experience in the design of software products / UI and UX design-centric
• Experience conducting user interviews
• Experience designing enterprise-grade software for both desktop and mobile environments
• Skill in design tools such as Figma and/or Adobe XD, Hotjar, GitHub, Notion
• A history of building design teams and processes
• Experience designing geospatial applications for both desktop and mobile applications
• Understanding of interfaces for controlling robotic systems
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Typescript
• Ability to create or modify designs in frontend frameworks such as React

Note: The Company want to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We don't expect everyone to have experience across each of these areas. Please apply even if you only partially fulfil this list.