Lead Product Designer - £70k - £90k London, England
CogX
Full Time
London, England
70000 - 90000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Description
As Lead Product Designer you will be responsible for UX and visual design across our mobile and web apps. You will ensure that there is a consistent and delightful user experience across all our websites and apps. You will conduct user and competitor research, define our information architecture, define our brand and design guidelines, and create wireframes, prototypes, and finished visual designs. You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and marketers to build great products that deliver value to our users.
You will also lead and build the design team, establishing best practice ways of working and processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Building a high-performance design team and establishing best practices
- Building prototypes and wireframes for our mobile and web apps
- Creating finished visual designs
- Defining information architecture
- Owning the end-to-end user experience across all our platforms
- Customer and competitor analysis
- Testing and iterating
- Working with the engineering team to implement designs
- Understanding product requirements and translating them into detailed user journeys, wireframes and finished designs
- Exploring and communicating interaction and design concepts through wireframes, sketches, storyboards, user flows, process flows, site maps, and high fidelity mockups, which serve as a foundation for you to build clickable interactive prototypes
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
The preferred candidate MUST have
- At least 5 years of relevant experience as a full-time multidisciplinary designer.
- A portfolio showing your work across a range of projects and brands. This should showcase your work on responsive web apps and native mobile apps.
- Worked at a tech start-up before and are comfortable in a fast paced environment.
- Experience managing and mentoring designers.
- Strong experience with Figma and other key design tools.
- Experience working with atomic design systems
- Enthusiasm for lean thinking, design sprints, and iterative design.
- Passion for design leadership and communication
- A broad understanding that spans visual design, branding, HCI, usability, information design, interaction design, responsive web design and UX.
- Mastery of both wireframing and visual design
- Strong experience creating low-fidelity wireframes through to high-fidelity clickable prototypes
- Experience defining information architectures
- Strong ability to collaborate with developers on implementation.
The preferred candidate SHOULD have
- Understanding of product management, requirements gathering, product strategy.
- Experience creating motion graphics
About CogX
CogX is a purpose driven company focused on building the world’s biggest platform and community for leadership, creativity and innovation.. A social media platform and festival for global change makers. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic sector leading Operations team and a community of the most inclusive and forward-thinking leaders, CEOs, tech entrepreneurs, scientists, policy makers, artists, and activists in the world.
At CogX we address the most critical challenges and opportunities of our time, driving and galvanising the partnerships needed to make a difference to our mission statement “How do we get the next 10 years right?”. Our community & alumni partners have an array of global organisations and include Google, Sony, Vice, Goldman Sachs, BBC, Barclays, ThoughtWorks, BT, NHS, Tesla, Warner Music Group, PWC and Microsoft. We are backed by the UK’s most successful investors.
There are 2 parts to the business. The revolutionary CogX knowledge app and platform, which enables you to knowledge share and learn from the experts that matter directly to you. Whilst the CogX Festival which in 2023 is hosting its 7th edition.
The CogX Festival - The world's largest Festival of leadership, creativity and innovation - its where everything is possible. 2023 will see the biggest and most ambitious event yet, taking place across the O2 and Canary Wharf estates. 120,000 people, 20 stages, 2000 speakers, 1000 expo stands. Covering 20 topics from AI/DeepTech, Global Leadership, Future of Energy, Startup Innovation/IPO to Health and the Global Economy.
CogX is a community bringing together global leaders, technology industry, economists and the public at scale to explore the biggest transformation opportunities of our time and address the question, “How do we get the next 10 years right?”.
Co-founded by trailblazing serial tech entrepreneur Charlie Muirhead (Orchestream, Nexagent & Rightster) and Tabitha Goldstaub, MBE - Chair of the UK Government's AI Council and Creator of How To Talk To Robots; CogX aims to seek top talent from all industries and diverse backgrounds to join our team. People who succeed at CogX have something in common—they are tenacious, energetic and they strive to change the world and create positive impact.
The company is backed by many of the UK’s most successful Angel Investors and has a pipeline of over 100 enterprise clients for its unique “always on” knowledge sharing and thought leadership platform.
CogX
cogx.live
London, United Kingdom
Unknown / Non-Applicable
1 to 50 Employees
Company - Private
Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
2020
