Digital Product Designer

Location:
Portugal (remote)

Department:
Product Design

Hours:
Full-time

About YLD:

Everything we do is to empower our clients to move forward. Our
purpose
is to help our clients develop the capabilities they need to outperform their competitors. Our
success
is a consequence of ensuring our clients are successful. Our
company
is built on extraordinary people; we aim to attract, inspire, develop and retain them. YLD is a software engineering and design consultancy; we create digital capabilities for our clients that last beyond our engagement. We have offices in London, Lisbon, Porto.

About the role:

We're looking for a very experienced hands on Digital Product Designer with proven Design Systems skills and good UX knowledge to join our Product Design team.

As a
Product Designer
, you'll be part of a client team shaping innovative, user-centric products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, and driven, with a strong eye for detail and a deep understanding of design principles. You'll be skilled at solving complex problems through thoughtful design, creating intuitive and visually compelling experiences.

You'll be an effective communicator, able to articulate your decisions clearly, and a collaborative team player. You and your team will work in a fast-paced, iterative environment, consistently delivering high-quality design outcomes that elevate the product and delight users.

About you:

We know that everyone can't be good at everything, but we expect that you have a solid background in Digital Product Design, with a strong expertise in Design System and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms.

You'll have the following skills and experience
:

• Experience in UX Design, Product Strategy, UI / Interaction Design;
• Significant experience in Design Systems and UI design;
• Are confident with creating UI components independently to craft a reusable design systems.
• Experience working with Zeroheight / Supernova (or similar) and Storybook very welcome;
• Experience with animation and incorporating it into UI is very much welcomed;
• Experience working with, or good knowledge of implementing web accessibility would also be a big bonus;
• Coding skills / ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential;

You should:

• Be happy to collaborate with both more senior and junior people to establish a design language;
• Enjoy transforming complex concepts into simple and easy-to-use experiences;
• Happily participate in all aspects of product design: Research, Sketching, Wireframing, UI Design, Prototyping, User Testing etc;
• Love working with other experienced designers and learning from them as well as sharing your own knowledge;
• Love working alongside front-end developers and being a part of a cross-functional team;
• Believe that product, design and engineering are closely connected and work best when collaborating together;
• Care about accessibility and creating products that are inclusive to all people;
• Be very hands-on;
• Feel comfortable with moving at a fast pace with your team;
• Believe that learning and self-development never end;
• Want to bring your drive, passion and experience to our work and processes;
• Be comfortable working either in a remote environment, or surrounded by your colleagues in the office.
• Have great stakeholder management skills and be able to help, guide and support the client to success.

What we'd like to see from you:

• A portfolio (pdf, presentation or website) demonstrating critical thinking, creativity, visual design and Design System experience;
• CV outlining any professional experience and creative training/education, incl. any kind of official UX / UI training that you may have;
• All written documents must be sent in English.

As well as the chance to work with a forward-thinking, ethical, and fun group of people, you'll also get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• €2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• €300annual allowance for additional hardware
• Mental Health support: access to Spill app
• Meditation/Sleep support: Headspace or Calm app subscription
• Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30/45 mins)
• Portfolio Review with two of our Senior Designers (~1h30)
• Interview with Head of Product Design (30 mins)
• Meet the team (30 mins)

We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We're an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We don't discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability status. We also believe in work-life balance and offer flexible working around our core hours.