Senior UI Designer

Description

Teamwork.com's mission is to make teams who deliver client work become efficient, organised, profitable and happy! Our platform has revolutionised how companies manage their daily workflows for improved automation, productivity, and profitability. It acts as the ‘one-stop-shop’ project management solution enabling our customers to track, manage, and invoice their projects. Our relentless customer-focus has been rewarded with thousands of amazing customers all across the globe and millions of users who sign in every day. We pride ourselves on creating market leading software, working with outstanding people, and going above and beyond for our customers. Trusted by more than 20,000 teams across 170 countries, Teamwork.com is in acceleration mode as we set our sights to become the undisputed Project Management platform for teams who deliver client work.

We believe in hiring great people and look to ensure everyone has the best possible experience of work, everyday. We strive to be open and transparent, humble and customer focused. And we thrive on curiosity, getting results and working together relentlessly to deliver excellence. We are a company of action, full of triers and doers: we try things, we make mistakes, and we learn from them. Our personality is unmistakable: we work hard, take joy in our wins and each other's successes and important life events. And we care and support each other when life throws lemons. More than anything we embrace a straightforward approach to getting things done. We are fanatical about our customers: and when talent meets passion, success happens.

The opportunity

We are seeking a Senior UI Designer to put the user at the centre of everything that we do. You will become a key contributor on all aspects of design and deliver a world class product that delivers functional & practical excellence and a world class experience for our customers.

• You will design reusable, scalable, and accessible UI components that align with the design system's goals and brand guidelines.
• You will ensure visual consistency across all product features through effective use of the design system.
• You will collaborate with developers and designers to ensure correct implementation of components.
• You will regularly audit the design system to ensure consistency, usability, and relevance across all Teamwork features & user journeys.
• You will proactively update components, patterns, and documentation to meet evolving product and user needs.
• You will work closely with product designers, developers, and product managers to gather requirements and understand use cases for design system adoption.
• You will act as a liaison between design and development teams to ensure seamless integration of the design system.
• You will champion the adoption and proper use of the design system across product teams.
• You will conduct workshops, training sessions, and presentations to educate teams about design system benefits and usage.
• You will create and maintain comprehensive documentation for components, patterns, and design principles to support consistent usage.
• You will develop usage guidelines, examples, and best practices for the design system.
• You will collect feedback from stakeholders, users, and team members to iterate on and improve the design system.
• You will conduct usability testing for new components and patterns within the design system.
• You will address edge cases and exceptions to maintain the system's flexibility without compromising consistency.
• You will communicate and educate the product organisation on how to leverage and contribute to the design system to drive continuous improvement and to ensure consistency, scalability, and usability across the product organisation
• You will work with the Product Managers, Product designers and developers to design UI assets consistent with the standards in the full product suite in Teamwork.
• You will work with Product Managers and design leadership to proactively identify components required by teams for upcoming feature releases.
• You will craft design artifacts like wireframes, UI patterns, mock-ups, and prototypes; highlighting your design process to test, evangelise and deliver ideas.
• You will ensure all design components adhere to accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG guidelines).
• You will advocate for inclusivity in design by considering diverse user needs and experiences.

What good looks like

• You’re passionate, self-motivated, and obsessed with detail. You’re a problem solver. You’re a team player, but you know when to take the initiative. You’re always learning. You understand the difference between product design and graphic design.
• You have several years' proven experience designing digital products that offer clear and simple user interfaces.
• You’re a strong communicator, comfortable articulating design decisions and rationale with clarity and confidence.
• You’re solution focused, comfortable working independently to drive a design to resolution as well as collaborating closely with cross disciplinary team members.
• You’re data driven and research focused, disciplined in validating design assumptions with real data and user insights.
• You actively seek feedback on your design work in an effort to improve the quality of the outcome for the customer.
• You consistently apply critical thinking to your design process to ensure decisions are thoughtfully considered.
• You're experienced with industry standard design tools. Some experience with prototyping tools is also helpful. 
• You're able to work well in a fast-paced environment, communicate effectively, and remain open to feedback from people in a variety of disciplines.
• You have a deep understanding of user-centred design. 
• You're passionate about taking complex user flows and layouts and making them visually appealing and easy to use.
• You have an understanding of interaction design with the ability to envision animations and state transitions.
• Figma and prototyping tools experience required.

Core Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salary
• Up to 30 days vacation
• Pension/Retirement matching
• Health plans and wellbeing programs
• Give Back program
• Educational resources and generous allowance to support development
• Inclusive policies - maternity, paternity & parent leave, as well as a focus on flexible working
• Recognition programs
• Employee Share Options (ESOP) - we mean what we say when we say, ‘act like an owner’!

Teamwork.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, family status, disability, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality or ethnic origin.