Senior Product Designer
A little bit about Kindred
Over the last 20 years, Kindred Group has brought together 9 of Europe's most successful online gambling brands – forming one of the largest online gambling companies in the world. We offer 27 million customers a great form of digital entertainment, fine-tuned to present an unforgettable experience in a safe and fair environment every day.
We are on a mission to transform gambling by being a trusted source of entertainment that contributes positively to society. Our vision at Kindred is to make gambling 100% enjoyable with an ambition to have 0% of our revenue from harmful gambling by 2023. Read more about our stance on responsible gambling and maintaining integrity on the Kindred group website.
The Senior Product Designer
As a Senior Product Designer you will play a central role in developing a key area of the overall user experience. You will work closely, as part of a Product Design team, with wider UX functions, experiences and business stakeholders to ensure outcomes are insight driven, well explored and have been fully considered in line with the design process.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create high-quality, engaging multi-channel design solutions for our experiences. Including; sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, visual and interaction designs as well as interactive prototypes
- Conduct in-depth competitor analysis or heuristic reviews to feed into recommendations
- Organise and coordinate insight and data gathering to support team priorities
- Provide input into, and run, user research activities
- Align to and help evolve a multi-brand design system to ensure scalability needs are met
- Document designs & specification effectively so solutions are easy to follow and understand
- Present work to business stakeholders, clearly articulating rationale behind design decisions
- Work closely with Developers to ensure solutions are delivered on time, to specification and in line with stakeholder expectations
- Collaborate closely with UX specialists to clearly understand, define and solve experience problems
- Build strong internal / external relationships to ensure our cross functional skillsets are effectively utilised
- Make informed design decisions that support both short and long term visions
- Monitor and share knowledge on emerging technologies, trends within UX and the gambling industry
Skills and Experience Required:
- Excellent knowledge in the practice of user centred design and design principles
- In depth understanding and application of UX best-practice & accessibility guidelines
- In depth understanding of UX tools (e.g. Figma, Sketch, Axure, Principal etc.)
- Experience delivering multi-brand, multi-product and / or multi-channel customer experiences
- Worked with Design Systems, Style guides and Brand guidelines
- Experience working with and running user research
- Contributed to and run UX / Design workshops
- Experience working with senior business stakeholders
- Understanding of business and commercial objectives
Behavioural Expectations
- You embrace opinions but lead with collaboration
- Willing to continually improve work through giving and receiving feedback
- You are willing and confident to run workshops
- Use stories as a way of getting through complexity
- Be an ambassador for UX
Kindred is for everyone
Kindred is an equal opportunity employer. With over 60 nationalities onboard in Kindred, it really doesn't matter where are you coming from. We all thrive from diversity, collaboration and positive experiences we can share together. We can't wait to see what personal experience you'll bring to Kindred and what we can learn from you. Learn more about Life at Kindred and Kindred culture.
Up for the challenge?
We have big plans, and we need a great team to help deliver on those plans. We empower our team to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work. If you'd thrive in that environment, and our core values resonate with you -- build on trust, individuals united, dare to challenge, and seek to innovate -- you'll fit right in!
