About the role

As a Product Designer, you'll run and help scale our creative design approach used to deliver our HR & Payroll products and services. Design innovation and consumer grade experiences are at the heart of what we do to ensure we keep at the cutting edge of user experience and ahead of our competitors. You'll be involved in all stages of the design process, from concepting and prototyping to working closely with Product Developers.

User first principles will be high on your agenda, but we push creative boundaries whilst considering the practicalities of what can be delivered. You'll live and breathe creativity.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Innovating and evolving our products user experiences by applying user-centric design and strong systems thinking to deliver a best-in-class user experience.
• Creating and managing a brand illustration system for Zellis covering our flagship products.
• Ensuring our design system meets and leads accessibility standards by applying solid understanding of accessibility criteria and best practices.
• Utilising creative design techniques to look beyond the obvious and provide different design options to a given problem.
• Collaborating with the Front-End Developers to bridge the gap between design and engineering to ensure experience-driven outcomes.
• Utilising other mediums (e.g. motion design, moving image and presentations) to help communicate concepts, ideas and product promotion.
• Creating innovative user interface designs in response to requirements that are intuitive and have considered user needs, support product innovation, technology requirements, and business needs.
• Working closely with our product team to ensure designs support product visions.
• Working at pace whilst not compromising on accuracy and quality of execution.
• Working closely with Front-End Developers (especially with regards to material 3) to create components ready for usage in products.
• Utilising the style guides, pattern libraries, component versioning, shared vocabularies, design linters, overall governance, and approvals.
• Evangelising our creative design throughout the organisation.

Skills & experience

• 5+ years of industry experience in enterprise user experience with a strong focus on design systems.
• Proficient with design software such as Figma, the Adobe Creative Suite (with very good knowledge of Adobe After Effects).
• Solid design knowledge of material 3 and its limitations.
• Excellent knowledge of working with design systems and interaction patterns.
• Solid knowledge of web accessibility guidelines.
• Broad range of core design, motion, video and presentation skills.
• Have worked closely with Front-End Developers to ensure components meet the required design standards.
• Experiences in documenting design patterns, creating style guides and communicating the design system across an organisation.
• Can employ excellent analytical and critical thinking skills in your work.
• Ability to prioritise and manage several milestones and projects efficiently.

Additional desirable skills:

• A degree in a design related subject or related field.
• Comfortable high-level knowledge of html/css/react paper.

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.