Senior Product Designer

Distilled

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an innovative and driven Senior Product Designer to lead design initiatives for Daft.ie, with a particular focus on making buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we're driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you're excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you. In this role you will play a pivotal role in crafting and maintaining the benchmarks of design quality, encouraging a culture of innovation, and delivering outstanding user experiences that set us apart in the market.

Requirements

At least 5 years experience in the field of Product Design or UX/UI fields.
Showcase a portfolio demonstrating previous Product/UX/UI Design experience, highlighting innovative solutions and how they impacted on metrics.
Ability to align design efforts with overarching business strategy, driving significant impact through design initiatives.
Strong understanding of user-centred design principles, design thinking, and research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, with a focus on user outstanding user experience happiness and behaviour metrics.
Proficiency in Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite and similar software to enable effective design delivery and execution, with a strong understanding of Design Systems to ensure consistency, scalability and continuous improvement.
Ability to optimally communicate ideas and rationale to cross functional teams, through strong storytelling ability.
Experience working in an Agile development environment, emphasising iterative design and rapid prototyping in an open and regular feedback culture.
Understanding of front-end development technologies and their impact on design decisions, facilitating flawless collaboration with engineering teams.
Demonstrated ability to inspire and influence others through your innovative thinking and willingness to explore and test new ideas.

Responsibilities

Define and uphold design standards to ensure a user-friendly, intuitive product experience, pushing the boundaries of innovation.
Provide insightful feedback to maintain consistency and quality within design, promoting excellence as part of our culture.
Collaborate closely with Product to identify user problems or opportunities and create lean innovative solutions to solve these problems.
Champion usability testing, user research, and data-driven decision-making to continuously improve product experiences, iterating based on user feedback.
Leverage our wealth of user data and tools (GA, Hotjar, Convert) to complement and strengthen design thinking.
Develop design & product visions aligned with the goals and objectives of our marketplace platform, driving innovative and impactful improvements.
Encourage and empower fellow designers with an innovative approach and thought leadership, contributing to a collaborative and creative work environment.
Promote diversity of thought, inclusivity, and collaboration within the design team, encouraging every member to contribute their valuable perspectives.