Are you a UI specialist? Do you love making components and being interaction focused? Are looking to specialise in a career in UI design?
We’re looking for someone with a passion for creating great, intuitive user interface components to work within our design systems team. As part of the design system team, you will work with other UI designers to help maintain, create, and organise new components into our design libraries.
As a UI designer, you will need to enjoy all aspects of user interface design, from their conception to their execution – seeing them come to life in development. We want someone who is ready to specialise in a career in UI and loves all things Figma.
The role will need to adhere to brand guidelines and deliver components that scale. Working on a number of brands, across a number of channels, you will need to get your hands dirty in creating assets and understand how to take the static UI into development to bring our components to life.
Note: This is not a UX role. Applicants do not require a UX background, skillset or experience. The UI designer role will specialise in just UI and UI components, with an separate UX team handling any UX requirements.
Requirements:
- ‘Expert’ in using Figma, with demonstratable examples of projects undertaken.
- Experienced background in creating front-end UI for digital products.
- Ability to demonstrate UI component creation from scratch.
- Experience working with Design Systems, asset libraries or UI systems.
- Ability to create high quality responsive UI designs.
- Evidence of working with developers to ensure pixel-perfect UI implementation.
- Strong skills in accessibility.
- Knowledge of how to optimise designs for the design systems.
- Experience in organising and maintaining components, through the use of documentation.
- Good communication skills and understanding of how to deliver designs to development teams.
- Ability to adhere to brand guidelines.
Nice-to-haves (non-essential):
- Have a good understanding of interaction design.
- Understanding and experience in using Figma variable, variants, and properties.
- Understanding and experience in design tokens.
- Experience in Sketch or XD.
- Experience in creating brand guidelines.
- An awareness of HTML, CSS and front end practices.
- Understanding and experience in Atomic Design Principles.
- Knowledge of Storybook.
- Knowledge of Chromatic.
Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
Our Commitment to You
At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.
Salary, Benefits, and Work-Life Balance
We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.
At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.
All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.
You can also view some of our other key benefits here.
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