Mid-weight Product Designer

We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.

Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.

The Role:

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that our designs are usable, accessible, visually appealing, and aligned with our brand values.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the Product Design Lead and product team to design the UX and UI of our products, features, and releases
• Working closely with our user researcher, analyzing data and user insights to inform design decisions and create user-centric solutions
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate your design ideas
• Ensuring consistency and coherence across our product designs, adhering to our design systems and guidelines
• Working with engineers to ensure that designs are technically feasible and efficiently implemented
• Presenting and advocating for your design solutions to stakeholders, clearly articulating the rationale behind your decisions
• Keeping up with industry trends and best practices in e-commerce and product design, and sharing insights with the team

• You may have a design or HCI degree but this isn’t mandatory
• 3+ years of product design experience, with a focus on e-commerce. It may be in fashion or it could be in another area such as gaming or travel
• A portfolio showcasing your user-centric design solutions. We’re really interested to see how you identify and solve user problems and then delivered live products
• Strong visual design skills with proficiency in typography, colour, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense, and a solid understanding of how these elements influence. product function
• Proficiency in Figma. Any other prototyping tools are a plus
• An interest in motion graphics and micro interactions is a plus
• Familiarity with working within design systems
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively within a team
• A user-centered design approach. You’re interested in user research methodologies and you might have contributed to research projects
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail
• A passion for creating engaging user experiences and an eagerness to learn and grow as a designer
• The willingness to give and receive constructive feedback and iterate on your designs
• An interest in understanding the business and how design decisions impact commercial goals

• Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
• Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
• Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
• Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
• Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
• Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
• Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
• Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
• Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
• Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.

We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.

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