Senior Digital Designer — Full Time

How&How are looking for an extremely talented Senior Digital Designer with solid brand knowledge; to join our growing team in London (Lisbon secondary optional location). You will be able to identify end user needs and leverage their findings to design beautiful, innovative, and easy-to-use experiences. You will collaborate closely with our digital producers, brand designers and developers to create the best possible user experiences, interactions, and flows.

You will have raw talent, curiosity and a strong creative instinct and help us deliver work for our clients which is bold, conceptual and different. You will be a team player who will be generous with ideas, and have strong beliefs — loosely held.

Salary: £55,000 (LDN) or €55,000 (LIS)

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years’ experience as an UI / UX designer
• Notable experience designing complex user interfaces for web and/or mobile applications
• Bachelor’s Degree in visual design, or relevant design qualification
• Thorough understanding of user-centred design, responsive design, mobile first design, and web standards
• Articulate, confident and assertive in presenting work
• Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of UX processes and methodologies
• Strong multi-tasking skills; able to prioritise own work (and ask questions when it's ambiguous)
• Strong creative instincts and willingness to push further through experimentation
• Advanced understanding of how to apply the methodologies of interaction design and research to business problems
• Proficient in industry standard tools (in particular Figma)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Who you are:

• Pro-active strategic thinker
• Curious about brands and the positive impact they can have on the world
• Meticulously organised and astute
• Personable and positive
• Confident and calm
• Articulate and ambitious
• A team player who can read people well
• Hungry to learn, always ready to share
• A giver, not a taker

Responsibilities:

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity comps to communicate design ideas that illustrate user interaction
• Design the interface and experience based on requirements from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Presenting designs and design systems to clients
• Work jointly with other UI designers to provide input and help solve complex interaction problems
• Work closely with product managers to translate low fidelity wireframes, hand sketches, and/or rough requirements of an idea into well designed user interfaces and experiences
• Collaborate and communicate with developers to ensure execution and consistency of the experience
• Participate in brainstorming sessions and bring fresh ideas to the table
• Ensuring consistency in designs and content across all company platforms
• Transforming wireframes into intuitive user interfaces
• Develop digital storyboards and animation as needed

What we offer

• Working for an English-speaking company in London (or Lisbon), be part of a dynamic team of international professionals
• Based in beautiful Second Home Lisboa above the Time Out Market. Working among 1,000 plants. Resident membership with all the perks. Second Home Member access to the cultural programme of talks and social events. Member access to all Second Home workspaces in both London and Hollywood.
• Personal Laptop of choice (we have a Tech Allowance which you can spend how you like)
• Free coffee and refreshments
• Free beers every Friday at the Second Home members bar
• Huge potential to grow and move up in your role. We're a fast-growing team, with big ambitions for ourselves and anyone up for changing it up and moving to Portugal
• Agency Growth Plan with the option to explore elements of your practice on "play" days
• London - 28 days (including Bank Holidays) | Lisbon - 22 Days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)

About How&How

One of the core principles of “leftright” thinking at How&How is equality. This applies to equality in our workforce too. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we’re committed to diversity and inclusion. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Our mission is to grow our team with the best thinkers, most talented creatives and most curious minds — no matter their background or discipline. This role may be for a designer — but we are always looking for the person, not the job description. If you feel you’d like to join our team, we’d love to hear from you. You may be exactly what we are looking for... we just don’t know it yet.