Senior UX/UI Designer - App Ops

Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) wanted to join our dynamic team. The opportunity: We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Senior UX/UI Product Designer with a specialized focus on mobile applications to join our dynamic, flexible team, embedded directly with a leading automotive client's App Operations team. This hybrid role is for a hands-on designer who excels at crafting, optimizing, and delivering exceptional mobile-first digital experiences that drive user engagement, enhance operational efficiency, and seamlessly integrate into the broader automotive customer journey. You will be instrumental in translating complex automotive functionalities and operational needs into intuitive and delightful mobile user interfaces. Working collaboratively within a cross-functional team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end design lifecycle of the client's mobile apps, ensuring every pixel and interaction is meticulously considered and executed.   What you’ll be doing: You are a hands-on, highly motivated, self-sufficient Senior UX/UI Product Designer with deep expertise in mobile-first design principles, patterns, and best practices. Your passion for user-centric design pushes you to create intuitive, efficient, and visually appealing mobile experiences for our automotive client.           Mobile-First Design & Execution: • Lead the end-to-end UX and UI design process for features and functionalities within the client's mobile applications (iOS and Android). • Develop detailed user flows, interaction models, information architecture, wireframes, and interactive prototypes specifically tailored for mobile platforms. • Create pixel-perfect, high-fidelity UI designs, incorporating the client's brand guidelines, design system, and best practices for mobile usability and aesthetics. • Focus on micro-interactions, gestural controls, haptic feedback, notification systems, and responsive layouts for various mobile device sizes and orientations. • Ensure all designs are technically feasible and collaborate closely with developers during implementation, providing detailed specifications and reviewing UI for fidelity. User Research & Testing (Mobile Context): • Conduct and participate in user research sessions (e.g., usability testing on mobile devices, remote ethnography, A/B testing within apps) to gather insights specific to mobile user behaviour and preferences. • Analyze app analytics, user feedback, and market trends to identify pain points and opportunities for mobile app experience improvements. • Translate research findings into actionable design recommendations and iterate on designs based on user feedback and performance data. • Collaboration & Advocacy: • Work closely with the UX Lead, App Operations team, product managers, developers, and other designers to ensure a cohesive product strategy and design execution across all mobile initiatives. • Contribute to and advocate for the adoption of mobile-first design best practices, accessibility standards, and consistent design patterns within the App Operations team. • Present design concepts, rationale, and user insights clearly and persuasively to stakeholders, fostering a shared understanding and buy-in for mobile experience enhancements.   What we want from you: • Mobile UX/UI Specialization (Essential): Proven track record as a Senior UX/UI Designer with a specialized, hands-on focus on mobile application design (iOS and Android), demonstrating exceptional craft and attention to detail. • Automotive Context: Experience designing for the automotive sector or other highly regulated/complex industries with a strong digital product presence is highly desirable. • Exceptional Portfolio: A must-have portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX/UI design for mobile apps, showcasing your process from research and wireframing through to polished UI and implemented solutions. • Mastery of Mobile Design Principles: Deep understanding and practical application of mobile-first design principles, platform-specific guidelines (e.g., Apple Human Interface Guidelines, Google Material Design), and responsive design. • Figma & Prototyping Proficiency: High proficiency in modern design tools, especially Figma, with the ability to create scalable, well-structured design files, interactive mobile prototypes, and high-fidelity UI. • User Research & Testing: Strong experience in conducting and participating in mobile-specific user research (qualitative and quantitative), including usability testing on devices, A/B testing, and synthesizing results into design solutions. • Technical Understanding: Familiarity with mobile app development processes, limitations, and platform capabilities to ensure designs are technically feasible and optimized for performance. • Collaboration & Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to present and articulate design decisions and rationale clearly to developers, product managers, and other stakeholders. • Problem-Solving & Autonomy: A proactive, problem-solving mindset, capable of working autonomously to manage design tasks and priorities within a fast-paced, cross-functional App Operations team. • Design System Contribution: Experience working with and contributing to comprehensive design systems, ensuring consistency and scalability of mobile components. • Accessibility & Performance: Solid understanding of mobile accessibility standards and performance considerations to ensure inclusive and efficient app experiences.   You will collaborate with our UK project team, so we’ll need you to be available until 18:00 PL