Job Description

Job Title: Product Designer - User Interface Researcher / Designer

Location: London

Job Type: Contract

Experience: 5+ years

Introduction:

We are committed to building a better future for smokers who would otherwise continue to smoke. Our Smoke-Free Products organization is focused on creating a Smoke-Free Future, and reducing the harm caused by tobacco by offering reduced risk nicotine products.

As a Product Designer - User Interface Researcher / Designer, you can make your own powerful contribution to our social responsibility innovation programme. Bringing a relentless focus on delivering the right outcomes for our users, you'll be part of the Design delivery team within our Global Studios. This is a high-profile, high-impact role. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in UI/UX design, a strong portfolio showcasing high-quality visual design, and a passion for solving complex design problems.

Responsibilities:

Collaborating with product managers, business stakeholders and technologists to understand and act upon key business requirements

Contributing to new feature definitions and exploration from concept through execution within an integrated team that meets business needs, user needs and technical capabilities

Delivering design via concept sketches, wireframes, and ultimately production-ready comps

Designing for motion/transition to enhance the feel of the resulting interfaces

Creating and evolving consistent affordances across the product set to enhance and standardize the usability of the interfaces.

Partnering with other UX/UI designers and developers to deploy user-friendly mobile-first customer experiences

Seeing product additions/enhancements from concept or research to deployment and optimization

Assisting Senior Design team in creating design rationale and specifications

Advocating for clean, simple user-centred interfaces

Iterate rapidly on proposed designs based on user feedback.

Consult with stakeholders, design team members, end users and developers on UI best practices.

Solve unique UI challenges facing our users and products teams using modern design paradigms based in design theory.

Hybrid role requiring office collaboration 2 days a week at our fantastic studio next to St Pauls, central London.

Requirements:

Good working command of Figma, and DS delivery, and at least 1-2 higher-fidelity prototyping/motion tools such as Principle, InVision Studio, After Effects, or the like.

Experience designing solutions for mobile-first responsive design (app-only and desktop-only is not preferred)

Strong capabilities in overall visual composition: typography, spacing, placement, hierarchy - and creating consistent affordances that enhance the usability - and ultimately delight - of the resulting product. These should rely on text, colour, and other systematic elements to convey usage.

Experience creating simple, usable experiences within a complex systems environment - ones that leverage large amounts of content/data but provide a simple, intuitive interface for applications or other types of transactional interfaces

Some experience/aptitude in UX design (ability to create simpler sitemaps, journeys, etc)

Success creating and launching work in a large product program, with product managers, engineering, and design

Experience working in a production environment, owning detailed deliverables (comps, motion parameters, etc) needed for engineering to execute a design

A passion for simplicity, user.

Must be located in London and eligible to work in the UK.

What we can offer

An environment that rewards entrepreneurial spirit - We will provide you with the space to explore elements of your specialism. Every new initiative is embraced and supported:

Work and life balance - We understand that everyone has varied lives and we want you to have a great work-life balance. So, where possible encourage you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.

Well-being and culture - We're passionate and committed to creating an environment that enables everyone to prioritise their wellbeing.

Positive societal impact - We're serious about having a positive societal impact across all our products and interactions