Interface designer - European Commission

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Role: Interface designer - European Commission

Location: Brussels, Belgium - European Commission

Responsibilities:

Following tasks will be performed by external service provider:

Design Systems Expertise:

• Proven expertise in designing and working with Design Systems, demonstrating a deep understanding of creating, maintaining, and scaling cohesive and efficient design frameworks
• Strong knowledge of responsive design principles and accessibility standards
• Ability to document design guidelines clearly for team collaboration
• Very strong communication skills and ability to advocate for design best practices across teams
  
  

Digital Product Design and UX:

• Design work on digital solutions, ensuring UX/UI consistency and enhancing user interactions
• Execute end-to-end product design, from wireframing and prototyping to final UI design, ensuring designs align with business needs and technical feasibility
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure cohesive digital product experiences
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops and brainstorming sessions to gather inputs and validate design concepts
  
  

Product Owner Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the product management team to define and prioritize the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with user and business needs
• Guide feature development from concept to execution, ensuring user feedback and usability testing inform the final product
• Oversee the launch of digital products, coordinating efforts between solution teams.
• Engage stakeholders to ensure digital solutions meet both user requirements and business objectives
  
  

User-Centric Digital Solutions:

• Drive the development of user-centered digital solutions by conducting user research, persona development, and user journey mapping
• Apply iterative design processes, including A/B testing and usability testing, to continually refine and optimize digital interfaces
• Use UX research tools to gather insights on user interactions and behaviors, translating findings into actionable design improvements
  
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Coordinate with stakeholders across departments to ensure seamless integration of UX design into broader business objectives
• Provide mentorship to junior UX designers and foster a collaborative design culture within the team
  
  

UX Research and Insights:

• Lead the research and analysis of user needs, conducting interviews, usability tests, and market research to inform design decisions
• Create and manage user personas, ensuring design solutions are tailored to specific audience segments
• Leverage data analytics tools to evaluate the performance of digital products and drive continuous improvement of the user experience
  
  

Requirements:

Following skills are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:

• Great experience creating high-fidelity prototypes and wireframes using industry-standard tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch and UXpin Axure
• Experience turning conceptual ideas into visually compelling, user-friendly interfaces
• Great understanding and experience of responsive design techniques to ensure usability across various devices and platforms
• Experience developing and maintaining design systems, ensuring consistency across all digital
• touchpoints
• Proficient in creating and documenting UI components, patterns, and style guides to enhance
• collaboration between design and development teams
• Great experience designing user interfaces for complex digital products, focusing on usability, accessibility, and aesthetics
• Good experience in interaction design, enhancing user engagement through interactive elements and animations
• Experience creating motion graphics to guide user behavior and improve overall user flow.
• Good experience designing for multiple platforms, including web, mobile, and tablet interfaces, ensuring consistent user experiences across all devices
• Great understanding of platform-specific design guidelines for iOS, Android, Web and ability to adapt designs accordingly
• Great experience collaborating with front-end developers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation of UI designs
• Proficient in delivering assets, design specifications, and prototypes to development teams using tools like Zeplin, Figma, and InVision
• Adept in designing interfaces that comply with accessibility standards such as WCAG, ensuring inclusive design for users with disabilities
• Experience running user interface testing, gathering feedback, and iterating designs based on user insights
• Works closely with Business and cross functional teams to reach desired organisational goals
• Experience with project management methodology like Agile and Waterfall
• Experience with UI design tools Figma, Sketch, Adobe
• Experience with Analytics Tools like Hotjar,Google Analytics, Dynatrace
• Experience with Remote Collaboration using Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom, Miro and Slack
• Excellent communicator in English, able to communicate the organisations' strategic vision and goals from an end-user' point of view
  
  

Other tools:

1. UserZoom for UCD, remote user research, and usability testing
2. Xtensio for persona developement
3. Smaply for user journey mapping
4. JIRA for project management
5. Documentation and knowledge sharing using Confluence
6. Sharepoint online
7. HTML/CSS, XML, SEO

Certifications and Standards:

• User centred design
• Usability and accessibility standards
• Participatory design (design sprints, visual conversation)
• Agile
• Research techniques

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English - Level C2 in Understanding, Speaking and Writing

Some soft skills the client will appreciate:

• Good analytical and synthesis skills, communicate effectively and know how to adapt communication to interlocutors
• Flexible, conscientious, results-oriented, proactive and critical. Someone who constantly wants to learn
• Can work independently and in a team, under pressure and with changing priorities
• Problem-solving skills
• Proactive attitude, customer oriented and results
• Rapid self-starting capability and experience in team working and working in an international/ multicultural environment
  
  

Our offer:

• You will have the opportunity to work in an international and multi-cultural environment
• You will be able to work for interesting European projects that is managed by European Commission
• You will receive a nice compensation and benefits according to your level (Freelancers are also welcome)

If you think you're a suitable candidate for this mission, don't hesitate and apply today!