We’re hiring – Senior UI and UX designer

About you

This is a role for a UI and UX designer who can turn complexity into simplicity at a fundamental level and craft beautiful user interfaces. When faced with complexity, we have to scratch beneath the surface, go back to first principles, ask stupid questions and be confident to say, ‘I don’t understand this’. You must think about a product holistically, grasp the dependencies, and challenge yourself to create delight in the seemingly mundane.

You are passionate about design and believe in its power to transform. You read and think about design and take inspiration from everywhere.

You will need to be able to think about the context of how a user arrives at the journey they are on, what dependencies there are elsewhere in the product, be dogged about consistency, sweat every last detail and know the difference between a foot mark and an apostrophe.

Details matter to us and our clients.

With 7+ years of agency or freelance experience, you will bring your insights into our product design process, be an active contributor to our agency processes, have a growth mindset and be eager to do your best work no matter the project.

• Be able to turn a product vision into a reality by going through a journey of discovery, requirements scoping, wire-framing, prototyping, UI and UX design and developer handover.
• Work with product owners and developers to understand their constraints and needs while thinking about business and user needs.
• Be driven to create exceptional user experiences to challenge the status quo in B2B product design with a strong eye on typographic hierarchy and brand custodianship.
• Not follow trends to create stand-out, memorable and own-able product experiences that seamlessly transition from brand to product and vice versa.
• Work on net new products, component libraries or design systems and old products with design debt.
• A portfolio that demonstrates craft and beauty but also shows business-level problem-solving.
• Confident, able to defend decisions and construct arguments grounded in discovery and research.
• Deep understanding of Figma, design systems, tokens, and UX best practices.
• Able to see design in the context of business owner and user needs.
• Self-sufficient, able to thrive in ambiguity, and motivated to work alone or collectively as a team to meet deadlines.
• Fiercely organised, a lover of craft with exacting standards.
• Questioning and open to criticism or direction.
• Good communication skills and comfortable working with clients directly.

What we offer

• Health insurance gives you access to private healthcare to help cover costs.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays per year.
• Flexible, remote working with core hours where the whole team overlap for continuity. If you have morning or evening commitments, we fit around your lifestyle.
• A MacBook Pro, 4K monitor and software.
• A learning budget for professional growth.
• Monthly socials and annual getaways.
• £55,000 – £75,000 (DOE).

About Kohde

We are a B2B design agency that creates brand, web, and product designs for start-ups, scale-ups, and enterprise clients in the SaaS and software space.

We embed ourselves in our customers’ businesses with the single-minded goal of transformation through design. We believe the only way to achieve this is through a long-term relationship.

We take pride in creating effective yet beautiful solutions.

We are a small team of designers, developers, and project managers with a keen eye for detail. We deliver exceptional work and form trusted, long-term relationships with our clients.

A candidate with B2B experience is preferred but optional. While we execute with a B2C mindset, a candidate must understand the nuance and complexities of long sales cycles and multiple audiences in B2B, show evidence of turning complexity into simplicity and how design was the lever for change.

We always look for process improvements and meet regularly to discuss our collective performance. We are open to admitting mistakes but learn from them.

Our ambition is to grow into a close-knit team of strategists, researchers, designers, writers, and developers so a candidate who wants to go on a journey will thrive.

We are fully remote, with London being our hub to gather for monthly socials.

Are you interested in joining us?

To apply, please send your CV and portfolio to careers@kohde.agency

No agencies. Remote. Prepared to travel to London. A resident in the UK has an advantage.