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We're looking for a UX/UI Designer

Preston, Lancashire + Work From Home
Competitive
Full Time
What does the job entail?

EKM is the home to tens of thousands of online shops, each with their own shop owners and shoppers who rely on our platform. You'll spend your time ensuring the consistency and usability of the EKM platform for existing functionality and brand new features. You'll be involved in gathering user requirements, creating wireframes, mockups and prototypes, conducting user research and working closely with the software developers during implementation.

This role is within our dedicated UX/UI Squad which has ownership for the user experience and user interface of the entire EKM platform. You'll be working closely with 6 development squads within the engineering team and have involvement in all their UX/UI requirements.

You'll be joining one of our agile squads, which are geared up to be autonomous and reduce bottlenecks as much as possible. Our squads sit and work together in private offices, self organise and have all the tools they need to take projects from inception right through to release.

What skills do I need?
Experience

You have at least 1 year industry experience working within a UX/UI role (SaaS would be a plus).

Data Driven

You embrace user research, usability testing, heat maps and split testing to shape your decisions.

Design

You have experience creating wireframes and mockups using tools like Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD.

Prototyping

You have experience creating prototypes using tools such as Marvel or InVision.

Coding

You are proficient at writing HTML, CSS (Saas or LESS would be a plus) and JavaScript.

Agile

You've worked in an Agile environment and ideally are familiar with Scrum.

Communication

You're a great communicator, love presenting your work and embrace all the feedback you can get.

Portfolio

You have an extensive portfolio that demonstrates your UX/UI skillset.

On top of all the perks listed previously you will also receive...
10% Hack Time

Hack time every Friday afternoon for working on your own projects.

Design Conferences

We love going to design conferences and even have our own plane for getting there!

Choose Your Hardware

A brand new MacBook with dual monitors? The choice is yours!

Free Pluralsight

You'll have access to the best creative training with your own FREE Pluralsight subscription.

Apply Now

Please send your CV and example projects / portfolio to

join-engineering@ekm.com
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