Senior UI UX Designer
Description
Senior UI/ UX Designer
Summary of Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior UI/UX Designer to join our team and help us build cutting-edge enterprise level applications that are scalable, user-friendly and accessible. As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and optimizing our user interfaces that are both visually appealing and highly functional that enable remote file access and collaboration for offices and remote/hybrid workers.
Responsibilities:
- Collaboration with Product team to understand requirements and design intuitive, responsive and accessible user interfaces that meet the requirements.
- Model user flows, create wireframes, prototypes and final UI designs that meet the business goals.
- Eloquently present designs and concepts to engineering teams, product teams and other cross-functional departments.
- Create, maintain and contribute towards a consistent design system.
- Work closely with other UI/UX designers within the business to ensure consistency of approaches.
- Drive to ensure that the application meets best practice and industry standards around accessibility e.g. WCAG, to provide an inclusive experience for all users.
- Provide close mentoring and guidance to engineers to deliver great user experiences.
- Design web interfaces that work seamlessly across web, mobile and tablet devices.
- Create, maintain and perform end user based research testing to validate the best approaches.
- Continuously review, refine and optimize the end user experiences based on feedback, analytics, and best practices.
- Keep up to date with the latest design systems, best practices, tools and technologies.
Experience Required:
- 4+ years of UI/UX design work with a strong portfolio showcasing your design work.
- Strong proficiency in design tools, like Figma, including their design and prototyping capabilities.
- Demonstratable experience translating business goals into a UI/UX vision.
- Demonstratable experience working with both product management and engineers to translate visions and requirements into deliverables.
- Strong understand of UX principles including user research, personas, journey mapping, and usability testing.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate design decisions and advocate for the end user.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically about user interactions and interface design.
- Keen eye for detail and a passion for creating delightful but efficient designs.
- Experience working in an agile development environment, and a solid understanding of agile methodologies.
- Deep understanding of web accessibility standards, in particular WCAG, and a track record of steering the implementation accessible web applications to achieve these goals.
Beneficial Experience:
- Working with greenfield and brownfield development projects.
- Prior experience delivering enterprise application experiences.
- Prior experience working with enterprise file sync and share solutions.
- Non web-based previous design experience (e.g. desktop and mobile apps)
- Prior experience working with frontend applications powered by TypeScript, React and Tailwind CSS.
About Nasuni
Nasuni is the leading hybrid cloud storage solution that powers business growth with effortless scalability, built-in security, and fast edge performance using a unique cloud-native architecture. The Nasuni File Data Platform delivers operational excellence by consolidating NAS and backup, eliminating data silos, and making management easy and flexible without changes to apps or workflows. Its built-in security offers proactive defense and rapid recovery, lowering organization’s risk from the detrimental effects of ransomware attacks and other disasters. Synchronized access to file data everywhere ensures user productivity by supporting remote and hybrid work.
Why work at Nasuni?
As part of our commitment to your well-being, we are pleased to offer comprehensive benefits packages to employees across the UK. Benefits packages generally include:
- 25 days of PTO for full-time employees plus 10 holidays
- Incentive stock options
- Robust, company-paid private Medical and Dental benefit plans
- An Employee Assistance Program to help with life’s difficulties and stressors
- Substantial Death In Service and Income Protection (disability) insurance
- Pension Plan with company match with salary exchange option
- Generous employee referral bonuses
- Professional development resources
- “Nasuni Cares” volunteer opportunities
- Brand new, modern office space with great, public transit-accessible location in Paddington with lounge, bike storage, phone booths, café, rooftop terrace, lockers, kitchens and break-out spaces
- Great team culture and social activities
- Best in class employee onboarding and training
- Professional development resources
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Nasuni is an equal opportunity employer. The equal employment opportunity policy at Nasuni protects employees and job applicants from discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based
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