Cathcart Associates Looking for Product Deisgner at Manchester Full Time

Product Designer
4.5 day week

The Company

A longstanding tech company working in the education space that are committed to staying ahead of the curve. Their tech, methods, and ways of working being very modern, they’ve even got a 4.5 day work week!

Culture – wise they’re a laid back bunch (no corporate vibe or red tape) with a real focus on having a healthy work life balance.

There’s an established product team you can lean on and learn from with genuine progression opportunities. They’ll help fund qualifications/ certifications that will stand you in good stead for your career, too.

HQ’d in Manchester they primarily work from home and will give you the tools/ tech to help you do so. This level of flexibility isn’t a temporary measure, it’s here to stay. You can choose to work from home, on site, or a mix of both.

The Role:

Despite having over 20 years of success behind them they haven’t stood still – they’ve set up a brand new team to build a new product. This is a great opportunity to put your stamp on a new venture and have an impact on this journey from the very beginning.

• You will join team focused on their core new SaaS platform
• Pair with developers to build simple iterations that will continually deliver value to businesses around the world
• Help clients and stakeholders visualise new concepts through UI mock-ups and videos.
• Be involved throughout the design and delivery process from discovery and research to interaction design, and testing of actual UX.
• Create UI pattern libraries/style guides for use across the platform.
• Write and maintain user stories for the product, including acceptance criteria.
• Interview users and conduct user testing

We’re looking for a mix of the following:

• Experience using Figma, Sketch and/ or Adobe XD
• Appreciation for Agile ways of working
• Strong UX focus
• The ability to take ownership of design process and work as self directed member of the team
• Strong communication skills
• A portfolio of previous work

What’s on offer?

• Salary up to £30,000
• Personal training budget
• 4.5 day week
• Remote and Flexi working

Next Steps

To be considered/ for more information apply now. You can also give Bronte Rhodes at Cathcart Technology a call.