Senior Product Designer

As a Senior Product Designer at Kin + Carta you will:

• Set the agenda and tempo for more junior members of the Design team.


• Possibly line-manage a couple of team members and coach them to accelerate their careers and contribution to K+C.


• Help define the strategic agenda of the Design team and its role at K+C.


• Set the standards for best practice


• Are a master of your craft, creative and eager to take on tasks you've not tried before.


• Are the gatekeeper for the quality of the products you work on with a keen eye for attention to detail


• Encourage experimentation with new ways of working.


• Explore new ways of generating ideas, bringing them to life and sharing them.


• See the big picture and give user/business context for design decisions.


• Are keen to present your own thinking, ideas and design work at pitches.


• Use past experience and client knowledge to spot and resolve problems.


• Embrace challenging conversations if needed to get to the best product outcome.


• Keep your skills fresh and up to date by participating in professional development
  
  You're primarily focused on human-centred design, backed by a broad knowledge of design patterns, art direction, iconography, typography and colour theory.


• You can evidence a strong portfolio and experience in delivering projects across web and native apps. Experience evidenced in other digital channels/platforms is also welcomed.


• You're confident conceptualising and visualising solutions in response to the problems, ideas and opportunities you help extract from users and partners.


• You have experience driving your design decisions and rationalising them using research data, design principles, prototypes and the resulting user-testing insights.


• You're most effective when collaborating with engineers, strategists and other team members to respond to the constraints of any project.


• Extremely proficient or even a super user of Figma,, Adobe CC suite and ideally a variety of prototyping tools.


• Confident client-facing, supporting the presentation of the team's latest design work.


• Inquisitive and eager to continuously improve and learn


• Collaborative and ego-free, able to give and receive feedback to and from all team members regardless of role or level.


• Experienced in agile methodologies, and software development practices.
  
  Want to help build a world that works better for everyone? Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation consultancy that makes a difference to the billions who now work, play, shop, communicate and share online.


Join a global team of curious and diverse minds in connecting people, data and technology to produce amazing experiences for some of the world's most influential companies. Become a maker, builder or creator as we explore the possibilities of sustainable digital technology, helping clients to rapidly innovate, modernise their systems, enable their teams, and optimise for continued growth.

We focus on tech but we're a proudly inclusive business with trust and human connection at its heart. People, the planet, and profit matter equally to us which is why we're a certified B Corporation in the United States and Europe.

The role in a nutshell:

As a Senior Product Designer at Kin + Carta you will be responsible for solving complex design challenges crafting great products and experiences.

You'll be critical to every project you are on; able to draw on your breath of knowledge of product design principles and methodologies to influence and lead many of the project's design decisions. You'll also be mentoring other designers, both in day-to-day project activities and as part of more formal career development across the Design team.

As part of the team you'll be working on products, services and experiences for some of the world's most influential companies. We work in multi-disciplinary, dedicated teams and are involved from planning and discovery through to build and execution, whilst advocating for the user every step of the way., Second-Stage Interview (60 minutes)- This interview will also be a Q&A style interview via Zoom this time with two of our senior leaders. The interview will last approximately 60 minutes. It's a chance for our team to see how you apply your skills and experience and assess how that matches our expectations for the role. It's also a chance for you to meet more of our Kin (that's what we call our colleagues here at Kin + Carta).

Making a Decision - Following the interview process, our hiring team will get together to discuss feedback and make a final decision. We aim to get back to you as soon as we possibly can!

Our average recruitment process takes around four weeks. You will be assigned a dedicated member of our Talent team to support you throughout the process.

We will always do our best to accommodate any reasonable adjustment requests. Please just let us know how we can make the interview process more accessible for you.

Here at Kin + Carta, we believe in building a better and more welcoming world for everyone. We want you to know that whoever you are, wherever you're from, and whoever you love, you are welcome at Kin + Carta. We put our commitment to our global IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Awareness) programme at the centre of everything we do. We're also a certified B Corp, which means we are committed to being a force for good and operate to the highest social and environmental performance standards.

Our benefits

Curious minds are nurtured at Kin + Carta through a wide range of benefits including:
Dedicated team learning budget
Hybrid remote working policy
Global leadership programmes
Flexible working hours
Enhanced Christmas leave
Dog friendly offices
Subsidised private healthcare
Discounted gym membership, Whoever you are, wherever you're from and whoever you love, you'll find an open door at Kin + Carta. It's yours to walk through if you're passionate about building a better world for everyone, and you're keen to be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that plays to people's strengths and thrives on togetherness.