UX & UI Designer - 6 Months Contract

Job Role: Product Designer UX/UI

Job Type: Full Time, 6 Months Contract

Location: Remote- with some task related travel

Job purpose:
 

As Travelex continues to enhance its digital customer offering, a significant online platform and frontend rebuild initiative requires the skills of two contract Product Designers, with expertise in UX and UI Design. These designers will join a high-functioning in-house team, focused on building user-centric solutions. Over a 6-month period, they will play a pivotal role improving product usability, while aligning with strategic business objectives. This will be achieved through comprehensive discovery, definition, and design processes.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Developers, Researchers and fellow Designers, to drive the end-to-end design process.

• Evolve, manage, and maintain a comprehensive UI component library within Figma, ensuring consistency across all design deliverables.

• Design, document, and maintain reusable components (including usage guidelines and best practices) as part of a wider design system, ensuring alignment with both current and future product requirements.

• Create high-fidelity user interfaces that solve known usability issues, with the application of research findings, design principles and the Travelex UI library.

• Consider design solutions in the context of white-label and partner delivery.

• Present design solutions to stakeholders, articulating rationale and the user-centric insights that drove the approach.

Skills, knowledge, and experience:

Must have:

• Must have experience with a tokenised approach to UI design and development (Figma variables and/or Tokens Studio use).

• Process driven, with a meticulous approach to digital asset creation, file management and project documentation.

• Familiarity with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively communicate with development teams.

• Practical knowledge of UX role in agile Scrum methodology ways of working.

• Experience maintaining design systems with UI libraries in Figma.

• A question driven, user focused approach to problem solving.

• The ability to confidently present, actively listen and question, during Product meeting scenarios.

Preferred:

• Degree in UXD or a relative qualification and/or experience.

• Experience contracting in a global or corporate setting, especially within fast-paced, digital product environments.

• Knowledge of the Tailwind CSS framework and designing for React Native builds

• Portfolio examples of past CMS or white-label design collaborations

• Portfolio examples of past finance or ecommerce design solutions

Technical / professional qualifications and experience:

• Extensive experience building and managing UI libraries in Figma with a particular focus on the role of variables and modes

• Working knowledge of MV testing and personalisation platforms

• Excellent knowledge of working tools i.e., Figma, Miro, Trello, Jira, Confluence Microsoft Office 365,

• Keen interest in emerging technologies

Why Travelex?

To remain the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist, we are focused on making our customers’ lives simpler, more engaging and hassle free while they travel or move money abroad. We promise to give them the freedom and peace of mind to explore the world, their way – enabling them to travel confidently because they know they have us to lean on.

Customer centricity and digital are at the heart of our business strategy. Our commitment to innovation has never been greater, with the development of a number of digital-first, greenfield products and services. And with the Travelex's resources, deep industry experience and leading brand we are inventing the future of FX, cross-border e-commerce and international payments.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.