Senior Product Designer
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead on the design and build of digital products and services for our site.
THE TEAM
This role will work closely alongside the Ski Product and Development teams to improve the customer facing online product across www.igluski.com. As our Senior Product Designer, you will join an experienced product and development team, working with Agile methodology to bring exceptional user experience and site features to our audience.
ROLE PURPOSE
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead on the design and build of digital products and services for our site. The successful candidate will handle the full spectrum of user interactions with the Iglu Ski site, with a particular focus on delivering UI improvements, UX optimisation and ensuring design consistency through the implementation of a design system.
Our Senior Product Designer will be confident and ambitious to bring new visions to life, adept at working at pace, able to prioritise effectively and clearly communicate with multiple stakeholders.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Proposing and drafting visual concepts.
- Identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
- Translating concepts into wireframes, prototypes and user flows using Figma.
- Redesigning key pages and templates on our site to increase their efficiency and usability.
- Creating new components, working with a design system to set design standards and ensure best practices are adhered to.
- Ensuring consistency and best practice UX on our website.
- Developing designs using HTML/CSS, working alongside our development team.
- Conducting research and insight projects to understand our user and stakeholder needs.
- Creating user personas and user journeys.
- Conducting user research and usability testing to ensure the end-product design provides users with the optimum experience in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and engagement.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of product design experience.
- Expertise in standard software such as Figma is a must, alongside strong HTML and CSS skills.
- Ability to work with stakeholders to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet business and user needs.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
- Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- Thorough understanding of accessibility best practice and WCAG guidelines.
THE PERSON
- We understand everyone has their strengths and performs to their best in different ways, but some of our most successful people here:
- Have an appetite for personal development
- Display great self-awareness around time management and prioritisation
- Are diligent and conscientious
- Show adaptability and resilience
- Have personal drive
- Are solution focused
- Are trusted by others and offer support
- Communicate well with others within their own department and across the business
- Show accountability and embrace responsibility
- Have previous g-suite experience
- Passion for typography and UI design
- Proven experience with creating stunning mobile and web user interfaces
- Great understanding of UX
- Strong experience with prototyping and wireframing
- Strong production-ready HTML & CSS
- HTML semantics and sectioning
- CSS authoring concepts
- Understanding of front-end development principles and execution
- Expert in industry-standard design visualisation and prototyping software (Figma)
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Online booking growth
- Acquisition, Retention and Conversion rate
- Site satisfaction score
- Department
- Ski
- Locations
- Homeworking, Wimbledon
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Colleagues
Wimbledon
Why join Iglu.com?
We might be online, but we're real people who want to make a real impact and work together to create the best experiences for our customers. We've grown a lot and have now created a diverse, flexible, rewarding environment that strives to let everyone be the best version of themselves.
Our social calendar and regular educational trips mean that it is not all hard work. The social committee also allow us to give back to some great causes and initiatives. Plenty of reasons to enjoy life at Iglu.com.
About Iglu.com
Iglu is the UK's largest independent specialist cruise and ski travel agency. We pride ourselves on providing expert advice on the widest range of holidays at competitive prices. Founded in 1998 in London, Iglu has grown from a small startup to one of the country’s leading digital travel agencies. Our mission is to help people achieve their travel dreams.
Iglu.com operates in the UK under the Iglu Cruise and Iglu Ski brands, as well as the Planet Cruise brand internationally. By offering more than 20,000 cruises and over 6 million ski holidays, no matter where you want to go or what you want to do, Iglu makes it easy and stress free with award-winning sales and customer support.
Recent Accolades:
Wave Awards 2024
Best Specialist Cruise Agency
Best Online Agent
Best Workplaces in Travel 2024
2nd Place (Large Company)
TTG 2024
Top 50 Travel Agencies
Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards 2024
Cruise Agency of the Year
Senior Product Designer
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead on the design and build of digital products and services for our site.
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