Job Description

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Description

We're looking for an enthusiastic and talented Senior Digital Designer to join our design team here in Leeds. This is a varied role allowing you to flex your creative muscles across branding, UX challenges, content, mobile apps and interactive digital designs.

You'll need a minimum of 5 years of design experience working in a team and be able to lead on all areas of digital design from discovery scoping to handing off pixel-perfect user interfaces to developers.

Our client base is vast and diverse, spanning different sectors and countries. Many of our clients reach out to a global audience, so you must be able to adapt your design style to build on clients' existing brand guidelines and visual identities or develop new ones altogether.

As a Senior Digital Designer, you must be able to showcase a highly polished portfolio of designs with various digital products and experiences (websites, apps etc.). You must also be able to demonstrate effectively how your UX strategies and/or designs have transformed businesses and delivered results.###

Key Responsibilities

Engage with key stakeholders to plan and facilitate workshops, ensuring business objectives, aspirations, KPIs and user requirements are understood Champion the user and run research and insight exercises to uncover friction points, leading to actionable outcomes Participate in design discussions and give feedback during planning and strategy meetings Review and recommend common interface and interaction patterns that can be used as reference points for a project Quickly turn ideas into sketches, wireframes and interactive prototypes Work closely with other disciplines in cross-functional teams, collaborating with developers to ensure designs are to spec, and with project managers to work through iterations for clients in a timely and efficient manner Drive operational excellence across the design process, from planning and ideation to implementation and deployment Contribute to building an open and collaborative culture within the department and the design community Mentor and coach other designers in the team while helping to enhance processes and promote a collaborative, feedback-driven culture.
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

A deep understanding of brand values, strategy, messaging and approach to visual communication Consider all the visual, interactive elements of a website or product interface and how they positively affect the digital experience Deliver best practices around user-centred design processes, user research and experience design Understand the role content plays within the user experience and are therefore able to structure information architectures accordingly Create and iterate visual prototypes to test and communicate ideas and help the wider team learn about user needs Identify and understand constraints and be able to work within them Craft and develop innovative digital design experiences underpinned by detailed and accessible design systems Present comfortably to senior stakeholders, clearly explaining the recommended approaches and decisions made Experienced in typography, layout and composition with an impeccable attention to detail Display a learning mentality, keep track of industry trends, and have a constant desire to improve your skills and learn from the experience of the wider team Have the ability to work directly from brand guidelines or revise them so they're fit for purpose Interest and experience in low-code solutions such as Webflow Commercially aware, balancing business objectives with client and end-user needs to deliver impactful solutions
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About Parallax

Parallax is a digital transformation consultancy with innovation at its core. We solve complex problems and build leading digital products for local and national SMEs, international clients and blue-chip corporations.

We transform ideas into opportunities, using cutting-edge user experience design, technical innovation, and our passion for digital excellence. We don't shy away from projects that seem too out of reach, unachievable or even impossible. We welcome the challenge and deliver success.

We're always questioning the norm and understand the risks of the latest and greatest and know how to deliver large digital projects at the forefront of technical possibility with a balanced approach to risk mitigation. Our clients trust us to deliver a transformative user experience married with technical excellence across various projects and industry sectors.

Our team features some of the most talented minds in the industry. We work hard to stay on top of the newest innovations and always strive to be the best at what we do.
We believe that our brand, people and behaviours are a powerful platform for social change in the tech industry. Our mission is to become the clear choice for all employees, candidates and clients, bringing out the best in people and giving everyone an equitable chance to find fulfilment in their careers. Parallax values and respects all differences in people (seen and unseen) and encourages applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries. We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences, abilities and backgrounds. If you are not 100% sure that you meet all the requirements but believe you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and use the application questions to tell us about what you would bring to this role.