UX/UI Designer

Reporting to our Senior Product Manager, our UX/UI Designer will work with PMs to understand business requirements, and translate them into intuitive, inspiring workflows for our users. You will research user problems by conducting interviews and analysing data, produce both hi-fidelity and lo-fidelity prototypes, and drive iterations through usability testing to ensure the user problems are adequately solved. Creating cross-platform solutions across multiple initiatives, focusing on consistency and simplicity, you will act as the voice of the customer to ensure the user’s needs are met, deliver “build ready” designs to bring the desired solution to life for the developers, and collaborate with them to produce excellent web and iOS app solutions.

This role is fully remote, based in Porto, Portugal.

Salary for this role is €20,000-€25,000 dependent on experience.

Check out the progression path for this role here (it sits within the Product team, UX/UI Designer category)

Requirements

You Will:

• Research user behaviour and pain points to identify their requirements and propose solutions that meet their needs
• Act as the voice of the customer (or internal user) to make sure their pain points are understood internally and the team is clear on why the proposed solution best meets their needs
• Produce high level sketches / wireframes, and iterating on them with developers
• Devise simple, elegant UI desktop and mobile solutions to complex problems
• Working closely with the Product Managers, agile development team and cross functional teams to solve real business problems
• Identify value, empathise with users' needs

You have:

• A strong background in UX and UI design. You are able to show this through your portfolio and have a proven history of releasing designs to users.
• Good understanding of responsive design, typography and Iconography. Good cultural/industry awareness.
• Proficient in UX, UX sketching, UI Design, wire-framing in any software you prefer
• Experience in-house, design studio, digital education or a Start-up environment - from taking briefs/requirements to clear UX documents to precise UI design.
• Familiar with prototyping tools and usability Testing
• Ability to work on a digital first mainly remote setup

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Programme through Lifeworks

• Staff discounts
• The Inclusive Threads DE&I Program
• Holiday - 22 days + bank holidays
• Flexible working
• Long service awards
• Mentorship & Coaching
• 12 weeks Leadership programme

About Threads:

Want to help build the future of luxury fashion commerce? If so, you’ve come to the right place.

Threads is a creative, luxury fashion personal shopping and commerce business. Through social and chat-based media, we inspire our international client base to discover the rarest luxury items. We then search the globe to procure them for our clients; this is the future of retail.

Threads is in Tech City’s Future Fifty programme which recognises some of the UK’s fastest growing businesses, pioneering the best luxury shopping experience in the world!

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Equity in selection practices

Threads practise equity in selection through targeting less represented talent pools, and offering access to development and support in interviews. We do this because we want to provide less represented groups with access to opportunities, and us, access to great people. All candidate offers are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. If we have two candidates at the final stage, we choose the best candidate for the job.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, and have committed to the recruitment and continued employment of people with disabilities. We are working towards improved employment practices to ensure those with disabilities receive full and fair consideration for all types of vacancies as well as for training, career development and promotion. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.