Senior Product Designer at Olivela, Remote, 3 Months, Part-Time, £Contract Rate

Key Job Requirements:

Functional Area and Department: Digital

Location: UK (remote)

Reports to (Title): Head of Product

Hours: 3 days a week for 3 months

Please email your resume /portfolio to hr@olivela.com

Job Summary:

As the Senior Product Designer for Olivela, you will sit within the Product Management function, reporting to the Head of Product. You will partner closely with stakeholders across the business to help us transition from Headless Shopify to Shopify Themes, maintaining luxury brand experience and key design features. You will be responsible for delivering accessible and meaningful experiences of the highest quality, creating and owning our UX strategy and UI designs across the Olivela digital product. You share our passion for reducing customer friction and creating beautiful and results driven experiences. Your ideas are born out of the need to continuously search for improvements to the product and work with your team to implement them. You should be able to deliver end to end customer journeys, low to high fidelity wireframes, sitemaps and prototypes. You will play an integral role in the capturing of customer insights in various formats, for continuous discovery of opportunities and problems.

Reporting Relationships:

This role is an individual contributor

Essential Functions:

● Be the UX design thought and executional leader for our team. Communicate effectively to educate others on the art and science of UX design

● Collaborate with the Creative Design team to lead on the implementation of design best practice for digital channels

● Partner to lead UX research and experimentation to inform our Product Roadmap.

● Work closely with Software Engineers and Product Managers to create new features that deliver business goals on conversion, revenue, and profit

● Work with Product, Development, Creative Design and other stakeholders to build and maintain visual guidelines that ensure consistent representation of the brands across the web and email experience

● Conceptualize abstract ideas and transform them into user-friendly features per specific use cases

● Apply human-centered design thinking not only to the visual and interaction design of the products we build, but also leverage your expertise to affect change.

● Have a deep understanding of visual design & UX principles based on performance and an ability to apply learnings through complete wireframes and flowcharts

● Have a strong point of view on design elements and interactions and how it pertains to a better user experience overall

● Create pixel perfect visual designs for hand-off to development teams as well as developing design guidelines in tandem with Creative in order to adhere to best practice and standards.

● Study and gather insights to end-users’ behaviors specific to the shopping experience to enhance engagement and conversion potential.

Specialized Skills and Knowledge:

● 3-5 years of industry experience as a user experience designer, product designer, or similar design-related role

● Deep knowledge of the way consumers shop online, with 3-5 years exposure to e-commerce (experience in the Luxury and Retail sector would also be a plus).

● 3-5 years of experience working in direct collaboration with Product leadership, Development Managers, and cross-functional stakeholders

● Experience owning large-scale projects, communicating timelines, and executing independently

● An online portfolio demonstrating samples of design deliverables for digital channels (personas, journey maps, wireframes, and prototypes)

● Experience with designing for Shopify Themes

● Fluency in best practices for information architecture and interaction design, user-centered design process, as well as strong knowledge of user experience principles and techniques

● Understands Atomic design or similar

● Experienced in owning and improving design systems for web in Figma

● Interested in developing UI/UX design principles aligned with new tools and advances in component design

● Demonstrated history of acquiring customer data (e.g., conducting usability studies, performing customer research) and creating personas and journey maps

Key Competencies:

These are the skills, traits, qualities or characteristics that contribute to a person’s ability to perform responsibilities in an organization. Examples include but are not limited to: decision making, collaboration, leadership, communication, problem solving, adaptability and initiative. You must list the three most critical competencies.

1. Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and analytical skills including the ability to communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization

2. A real team player, who can react and pivot with the team to deliver business value

3. Someone who is proactive and curious, who can work on the roadmap and business priorities but who can also bring innovative ideas and thinking to the team for consideration.

Physical Requirements/Factors:

Employee must be available to work and to interact with Company personnel and others in the performance of the job duties during the Company’s regular business hours. Exempt employees must also be available to work and interact with others during other times as needed, which may vary depending on such factors as different time zones, availability of persons or equipment, deadlines, etc.

All roles: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Olivela is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This job description is not all-inclusive. It acts as a guideline and is subject to change over time. Additional duties may be assigned based on business needs.

Please email your resume /portfolio to hr@olivela.com