Senior Experience Designer

About Kin + Carta

Want to help build a world that works better for everyone? Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation consultancy that makes a difference to the billions who now work, play, shop, communicate and share online.

Join a global team of curious and diverse minds in connecting people, data and technology to produce amazing experiences for some of the world’s most influential companies. Become a maker, builder or creator as we explore the possibilities of sustainable digital technology, helping clients to rapidly innovate, modernize their systems, enable their teams, and optimize for continued growth.

We focus on tech but we’re a proudly inclusive business with trust and human connection at its heart. People, the planet, and profit matter equally to us which is why we’re a certified B Corporation in the United States and Europe.

About our Design team

As part of the team you’ll be working on products and services for some of the world’s influential companies. UX Researchers through to Product Designers work in dedicated teams, anyone who has worked at a startup or in a product company will feel right at home. We are involved from planning through to execution, being an advocate for the user at every step of the way. You’ll help the team to make informed design decisions, placing the needs of the user and the business at the centre of every piece of work.

About you

You’re primarily focussed on user experience design, applying your abilities in facilitation, user research, interaction design, information architecture and user testing – amongst others. You’ll enjoy engaging with users and project partners to understand the product’s context, and synthesise your findings into easily-digestible formats for your team.

About the role

As a Senior Experience Designer you’ll be critical to every project you are on; able to draw on your breath of knowledge of user experience design principles and research methodologies to influence and lead many of the project’s design decisions. You’ll also be mentoring other designers, both in day-to-day project activities and as part of more formal career development across the Design team.

Designers at Kin + Carta are:

• Designing, prototyping and building products used by people every day.
• Confident using Sketch or Figma, Google Workspace, Adobe CC suite and a variety of prototyping tools.
• Client-facing, supporting the presentation of the team’s latest design work.
• Inquisitive and eager to continuously improve and learn.
• Collaborative and ego-free, able to give and receive feedback to and from all team members regardless of role or level.
• Experienced in agile methodologies, and software development practices.
• Actively involved in growing the team by finding and attracting talent.

As a Senior Experience Designer at Kin + Carta you:

• Set the agenda and tempo for more junior members of the Design team.
• Coach other designers, accelerating their careers and K+C contribution.
• Help define the strategic agenda of the Design team and its role at K+C.
• Set the standards for the product and Design teams in best practice.
• Are a master of your craft, eager to take on tasks you’ve not tried before.
• Are the gatekeeper for the quality of the products you work on.
• Encourage product teams to experiment with new ways of working.
• Explore new ways of generating ideas, bringing them to life and sharing them.
• See the big picture and give user/business context for design decisions.
• Are keen to present your own thinking, ideas and design work at pitches.
• Use past experience and client knowledge to spot and resolve problems.
• Up for challenging conversations if needed to get to the best product.
• Represent K+C publicly by participating in talks, events and conferences.

What we offer:

• This is a full-time position that comes with an excellent salary and an opportunity to grow within the company based on demonstrated merit
• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working policy
• Additional health insurance that guarantees fast access to contracted health services
• Refreshments and fruits at our office
• Our training policy for technical and other skills-related events, courses and certifications
• Our performance evaluation policy that paves the roadmap of personal career development
• Sport events, such as Biking, Basketball, Yoga, Hiking, etc., organized by different teams within the company
• Co-subvention for individual sport activities and transportation
• Self-care program that provides individual and team psychological consultations
• The annual team building that gathers together our offices
• Mini-team buildings and other local company events that run throughout the year.

Applying for the role

Please share examples of your work as PDFs or online case studies with your application. We’re interested in the activities you go through as you research, test and present your thinking and conclusions. For example; use of data, interviews, workshops, sketches, concepts, flows, experience maps, prototypes etc. ‘Finished’ visual designs are not the only focus here. All supplied examples will be handled in complete confidence.

Apply for this role

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from and whoever you love, you’ll find an open door at Kin + Carta. It’s yours to walk through if you’re passionate about building a better world for everyone, and you’re keen to be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that plays to people’s strengths and thrives on togetherness.