Senior Experience Designer

2 weeks ago


Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Silverstripe Full time

Are you a dedicated and passionate Designer looking for your next challenge? We have an awesome opportunity for a Senior Experience Designer to join our great New Zealand brand, based in Wellington, and really take your career to the next level.

At Silverstripe, we create compelling experiences for people online using creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

Making the complex simple in the digital world doesn't just involve tech—it involves teams filled with determined people working to improve the lives of those around them.


The Senior Experience Designer sees the world and our products through the eyes of our clients, and designs user experiences that not only meet those mental models but also exceed user expectations.

This role delivers value to our customers through strong visual designs that enhance the usability and desirability of our clients websites and our own products.


We are looking for someone with a wealth of creative experience and soft skills who can hit the ground running.

An excellent communicator, problem solver and all round awesome person.

Requirements:

What will I be doing?
Experience Designers at Silverstripe are full-stack and can be working on internal design initiatives and/or client projects.

Those client projects can be end-to-end: from helping with RFPs, to pre-sales meetings, creating and running workshops, UX research, UI design and working with developers during the build phase.


Beyond that expected of an Experience Designer, a Senior Experience Designer possesses strong guidance and problem solving abilities with regard to project-specific designs and the continued growth and development of Silverstripe's professional Strategy & Design offering.


We're looking for people who are:

  • Passionate for creating great experiences through a mix of client insights, design, and development
  • Creative: you can take a problem and find interesting solutions
  • Collaborators: thrive in a teamdriven, fastpaced work environment
  • Leaders: as a Senior Experience Designer you will be leading projects and mentoring other designers within the team.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

  • 5 years experience in a digital designer role
  • Strong understanding of discovery techniques, design tools, and pattern libraries
  • Great communication and collaboration skills, with good attention to detail
  • Workshop facilitation experience
  • Experience working with multiple clients
  • Great time management, self management and teamwork skills
  • Excellent knowledge of a prototyping tool such as Figma or Sketch
  • Excellent knowledge of Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)
  • Experience with user interface design patterns, usercentered design methodologies and user research activities
  • Understanding of software development practices, particularly Agile
  • Experience integrating designs into CMS like Silverstripe, Drupal or WordPress (_advantageous)_
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS (_advantageous)_.

Benefits
At Silverstripe we're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.

Our DEI employee led network ('All Stripes') work together to improve current practices to ensure our people feel valued and included.

We actively foster a culture that supports our core values of Camaraderie, Care and Curiosity. Our culture sets us apart — it's a key reason that brings people to Silverstripe and keeps them here.

Having fully stocked drinks and food cabinets encourage our Silverstripers to kōrero (talk) over kai (food) and kawhe (coffee) You will get the chance to discover how great our people (and chat) are through our regular lunch and learns.

Oh did we mention Innovation week? Well, that's something you do not want to miss out on

Applications close on Monday, 24 April 2023.

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