Lead Product Designer

Job Description

About Blexr

We’ve been around since 2015 and have had a lot of success in that time, along with a few useful failures. Now we’re writing the next chapter in our story. Our strategy is to build some of the best products in the iGaming industry, innovating and creating experiences to move the industry forward and be the champion of a better game.

We want to do that by hiring amazing talent, like you, who will take us to the next level, building and creating a company and products that we are proud of. Expanding our horizons, learning and growing and reaching that next step in our journey together. It’s important to us because if our people don’t grow, then neither will Blexr.

Blexr’s culture has 4 core values that help guide us on our journey: No Limits, Eyes on the prize, Stay True and Better Together. Each one brought to life from within the company and used every day to guide our decisions and actions.

If this sounds good to you, then we want to talk to you. We want to work with incredible people that want to do incredible things and we are certain that your career will be Better with Blexr.

About the role

Pay band depending on experience

UK - £85,000 - £94,000

EU - €78,000 - €85,000

All of our roles are fully remote as long as you are based in the UK, Spain or Malta

We're looking for a Lead Product Designer to join our UX team. This role will be responsible for taking our sites to the next level through user-centered design. Using data and knowledge gained through experimentation and user testing, you’ll improve the user journey by working through the full design process to produce mobile-first, adaptive, accessible, designs.

Our high performing teams consist of Product Designers and Researchers who work closely with SEO experts, QAs, Software Developers, and Content Specialists to create award winning products. As an experienced Senior Product Designer, you will work closely with our team to develop and achieve the product’s vision.

There’s a great opportunity to pioneer new ways of working, embed leading practices across marketing disciplines and explore the best ways to lead a team to achieve our goals, with full support and backing from the exec team.

Main responsibilities

• Responsible for contributing to the product and design strategy and accountable for the design of the product. You will own the experience of the product, pushing it to new levels through collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams. As part of the product’s Senior Leadership Team reporting into the Executive, you will help ensure its successful implementation to demonstrate the impact on business results.
• Following an agile development process, your responsibilities include understanding our business models and our users; creating designs and implementing user-centered interfaces and interactions, from discovery through to beta and iterations and improvements beyond launch.
• You will connect your level of understanding with your team, ensuring priorities, direction, and reasoning are understood so the team is aligned and effective decisions can be made. You can measure and demonstrate the impact of your team’s work to be shared across the organisation.
• Champion a user-centred culture across Blexr, helping teams take a more evidence-based approach to product development by educating and evangelising the benefits of user-centred design, conducting workshops, and presenting key research initiatives, insights, and results
• Evolve the design practice, staying up-to-date with design trends and technologies, establishing new processes and best practices to increase design maturing that can scale as the team grows to maximise efficiency and their impact on the business.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, marketing/content, and commercial
• Creating wireframes, rapid prototypes, and high-fidelity designs as well as mapping user flows and journeys
• Ensuring design consistency across all products and platforms
• Define, plan, and conduct user research (usability) to support the product team and inform design decisions

About you

• You are just as happy being a hands-on designer as you are managing and leading people
• At least 5 years of experience as a product designer with a proven track record of delivering world class user-centered experiences & results-focused digital products
• At least 2 years of experience managing designers
• Experience managing designers effectively in a remote-first environment, investing heavily in team relationships, using a structured process for assessing, refining, and growing the strength and goals of your team
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and collaborating with developers, product managers, and informing and influencing multiple stakeholders
• Excellent understanding of web and mobile design principles and responsive design
• Ability to break down complexity, understand complex problems within confines of compliance, challenging assumptions and leading a team through difficult and sometime ambiguous work to create user-focused solutions
• Work experience within Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Agile Methodologies as well as an understanding of user research and testing methodologies
• Strong analytical mind and a desire for making user- and data-driven decisions
• Experience with accessibility standards and inclusive design practices is a plus
• An understanding of online betting/casino/slots or affiliate sites would be helpful, but not required

Benefits working at Blexr

• Company Pension Scheme (e.g. you give 8%, we give 10% up to a maximum)
• Remote Work & Wellbeing Budget*
• Personal Training and Development Budget*
• Spill Mental Health Platform
• Hardware of choice*
• Private Health Insurance*
• Life Insurance*
• Sabbaticals*
• Company Get Aways*
• Remote first with option for remote working space

We love all people, from all walks of life. This means Blexr is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to people of every race, religion or belief and ethnic origin, regardless of age, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We don’t care where you’re from or who you love, we just want you to do your best work with us, so that together we can make things #betterwithblexr

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