👋 We’re Hiring a UI Designer (Services)

Location: Southampton (Flexible remote)

Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 DOE

Alliants is on a mission to build the best digital experiences for the world’s most respected luxury hotel, travel and retail brands… and we’re seeking a UI Designer to join our expanding Services team. Can you see yourself thriving in an innovative, growing SaaS company?

Join us on our journey, we are all-in on building the future of digital experiences 🚀

The role:

Work with the Lead UX Designer, Consultants, Business Analysts and Developers to create both functional and visually appealing designs for written and technical solutions that address our customers' needs.

Use creativity and an eye for detail – along with technical knowledge – to develop exceptional customer experiences.

To deliver UI mockups, prototypes, MVPs and final solutions. Translate customer needs into user-friendly, functionally appropriate designs to have a direct impact on the customer's user experience.

Some key area’s you’ll be working on:

• Attend meetings with clients and/or and internal stakeholders to understand business goals, capture requirements, gather feedback and present findings/data-informed design solutions.
  
• Produce UI sketches, wireframes, designs and clickable prototypes for testing and communicating ideas to stakeholders.
  
• Participate in development sprints to provide UI expertise and quality-control for design throughout the development process.
  
• Collect and interpret user insights into delightful experiences.
  
• Working closely with key stakeholders to transcribe their vision for the app into credible and appealing UI designs.
  
• Develop and maintain wireframes and clickable prototypes.
  
• Working with designers & front-end developers to incorporate visuals and brand identities into client solutions/projects.
  
• Managing digital design assets for client projects.
  
  

Important to have:

• Proven commercial work experience developing responsive user experiences; from wireframes to high fidelity prototypes across web and native (iOS and Android) mobile projects for frontend development.
  
• A portfolio which demonstrates ability and technical knowledge across a range of clients and/or industries.
  
• Experience in understanding user needs and translating them into compelling final designs and solutions.
  
• Experience implementing design choices based on user and stakeholder feedback.
  
• Experienced and comfortable working with multidisciplinary teams, from discovery through to development, working alongside project managers, developers and other designers within an Agile team to improve the usability of solutions and other features.
  
• Comfortable using industry-standard design software - e.g. Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe CC, etc.
  
• Knowledge and an understanding of accessibility standards for mobile apps and web.
  
  

Advantageous to have:

• Background experience in Product / Solution Design (UX/UI or similar)
  
• Interest/experience in Service Design
  
• Educated to a degree level or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline (possibly in the creative sector).
  
• Relevant training and/or certifications in UX/UI Design
• Understanding of analytics/data - has used quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions.
• An understanding of the psychology behind user behaviour.
• Experience with applying client branding to new user digital experiences.
• Familiar or experienced with front-end development languages - e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript.
• Ability to conduct fast "quickfire" research and testing as well as detailed; A/B testing, user interviews, usability testing, etc.
• Experience planning and conducting user research, including designing, facilitating, and documenting internal and external workshops to gather user feedback.

Who are Alliants and what do we do?

At Alliants we help many of the world’s most respected luxury hotel, travel and retail brands to deliver exceptional experiences through the software we build. Since 2009, we’ve gone all-in and built award-winning mobile apps, chat applications and SaaS products, we’ve changed the face of the digital guest experience and we indulge millions of users each day with our technology.

What’s in it for you?

We’re a friendly, mission-driven bunch that values inclusion, learning and development, and transparency. Check out our benefits: 

💷 A competitive salary

🎁 Up to 10% annual bonus

⚖️ Remote & flexible working

🏖️ 25 days holiday + public holidays

📈 Generous level of stock options

🏥 Private healthcare

👪 10x Life Insurance up to £500k

🥡 Monthly takeaway allowance

🧓🏽 Pension with matched employer contribution

🎒 £1,500 training and development budget each year

What’s important to us?

• We are all-in to supporting healthy hybrid and flexible working arrangements, we’ve made our HQ Southampton a great place to work. When you come to our HQ you’ll find full stocked kitchens (amazing coffee), enough snacks to start a tuck shop, comfy spaces and we’re dog friendly!
• Our workforce is mostly International and remote, but we do our best to keep everyone connected, join our weekly exercise classes, lunch & learns, and other socials
• We plant a Great British Oak each time we have a new starter, so as Alliants grows, our forests grow, and our training and development budgets help you grow too.

Why work at Alliants?

• We work with amazing brands on exciting (but complex) projects
• You can also check out what people are saying about us on Glassdoor