UX/UI Designer

UX/UI Designer

Full-time employment contract

The role

Josh Wood Colour is looking for a curious, enthusiastic UX/UI designer to take the lead on managing the day-to-day design needs for our growing eCommerce business. Sitting at the heart of the small but fast-growing organisation this role is very hands-on and requires a person who is willing to learn fast and grow with the company.

About

Josh Wood is a world-leading colourist, an Executive Board Member of the British Beauty Council and a regular host on ITV’s This Morning.  He founded the Atelier in 2011 as the home of our handpicked dream team of colourists and stylists. Josh Wood Colour is on a mission to offer a better solution for customers to have fantastic personalised hair colour that is tailored to each individual and a salon-quality experience at home. 

Responsibilities

• Design and define interaction patterns through components, documentation, and prototypes and then manage the implementation of the design system across the product ecosystem.
• Illustrate ideas using a variety of wireframes and high-fidelity designs
• Test with prototypes that can be easily disposed of or iterated on to learn more
• Refine through high fidelity mock-ups that solve the problem at hand
• Participate in the conducting of usability testing to gather feedback and iterate ideas
• Develop a design system that is used to create superior user experiences and strengthen the Josh Wood Colour brand
• Foster a team and company culture of involvement user centred design thinking practices
• Devise and run design workshops with team members
• Collaborate and support people in other streams
• Act as a constant source of insight into both trends in user experience design and best practice

Ideal candidate

• 3+ years of experience in design and research covering the full spectrum of design practices and techniques from visual language and interaction to process flows, journey mapping and design system
• A strong sense of visual design. A sensibility for layout, visual impact, colour, proportions, typography and iconography
• Proficiency in UX / UI tools (Adobe, Sketch, Figma, Zeplin, Abstract, etc.) together with a knack for effective prototyping
• A portfolio showing high quality, thoughtful UX and UI work
• Comfortable working in an agile environment with designers, developers and product managers to create new digital products and services
• Demonstrable knowledge, experience in and passion for user centered design practices
• Confident presenting work to a room of the curious and the sceptical, the interested and the demanding
• Like to embrace the small details that ultimately define the product
• UX writing / Content design experience
• Design for subscriptions based mobile products
• A good understanding of technical aspects of mobile (iOS and Android) and web applications.
• You are passionate about or you already have experience in the beauty industry

Working Environment

• We have a physical office presence in Ladbroke Grove, London, but have a flexible working from home culture
• This role is likely to involve travel both within the UK and abroad when Covid travel restrictions lift
• We are a friendly bunch with a strong and collaborative team culture
• You will be joining a creative team and get the chance to help shape how we work
• Working in a growing brand with global ambition is a unique challenge and opportunity where time passes quickly, no two weeks are the same, and the opportunities for trying new things for personal development are constant

  Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday
• Generous discounts on hair & beauty products
• Complimentary salon treatments