We're looking for an experienced UX/UI designer who can help us grow and optimise our existing products as well as creating brand new experiences for our customers.

Experience working on a range of products is essential; for example, both web and app user interfaces. You will be inspiring, passionate and dedicated to helping make our design team truly world-class.

We work in an agile environment, so you'll have experience of this and enjoy working in a multidisciplinary product team, and with stakeholders across the business to create products iteratively. As the voice of our users, you'll be instrumental in helping our team build products that people love.

About Sparkol

At Sparkol, we want anyone, anywhere to be able to bring stories to life in magical and meaningful ways. Put simply, our mission is to create simple software for people of any ability to make and share engaging content. Our main software, VideoScribe, is used in over 160 countries. It enables thousands of businesses, marketers, illustrators, trainers, bloggers, salespeople, video professionals and teachers to tell better stories with video and animation.

Our diverse and supportive culture means our team is curious, inventive and work to become a little better every single day. We pride ourselves on our 45% female, 55% male team makeup. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fun and vibrant company in the heart of Bristol, UK, that while small has a global reach. Get in touch if this sounds like a good fit for you!

Requirements

A portfolio that covers UI/UX design for both web and app products
High level of proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite, and/or Sketch (and ideally Zeplin)
Experience of user-centred design techniques and research skills
Wireframes and interface designs
Designing solutions for user problems
Know best practice for interaction design (including accessibility) - they are up to speed on current and emerging design patterns
Strong prototyping skills (interactive and paper)
Successful delivery of complex designs and strategy
Self-motivate and work in a highly-organised way
Experience working in multiple sectors

Responsibilities

Responsible for our end-to-end user experience across products and websites
Work through problems to get to the best outcome for the user and the business
Design effective interactions and journeys for new and existing users
Measure the impact and success of UX/UI changes and optimisations of our products
Design creative ways to solve user problems
Communicate design ideas and prototypes to the right people in the right way
Understanding what users need (rather than what they say they want)
Understand user journeys of all our products, inside out and back to front
Help create user journeys with user flow paths and diagrams
Create and design assets