Job Description

UK-based applicants only with the ability to attend the Cornwall office a minimum of a couple of days a month. Full-time preferred but part-time will be considered.

We’re looking for a Product Designer to join the RouteNote Creative Team.

We are looking for candidates who will thrive in a dynamic work environment and creative team culture like ours. We default to curiosity, empathy, integrity, and resourcefulness. We expect team members to move in line with our approach project work and each other.

We look out for people who practice ownership and accountability, are open to making mistakes and learning from them, are unafraid to reach out and ask questions, take a balanced approach to work, and are committed to understanding the impact of their decisions inside and outside of project work. We value quality ideas over hierarchy. As a team, we are passionate and inclusive. We look for people who are excited to learn about our product, our customers, and the ever-expanding UI/UX landscape because that’s what we’re doing. To be successful in your interview, we are looking to see that our values align in a meaningful way and this can be supported with examples.

RouteNote’s mission is to provide artists of all shapes and sizes the same opportunities as the biggest labels and artists in the world. We have spent over 10 years building a library of tools that empower independent artists to get their music out there. RouteNote is one of the leading digital music distributors in all of Europe.

Responsibilities include:

• Define project requirements in collaboration with Product Managers, Design Lead and Developers

• Carry out extensive research to understand the task at hand and create informed, effective, appropriate design solutions

• Understand and represent users in product decisions with cross-functional peers during tradeoff, timeline, and experience discussions

• Create and execute product design strategy

• Practice time forecasting for project work and ensure all stakeholders are informed

• Take ownership over your work. Hold yourself accountable, take responsibility every step of the way

• Succinctly produce informed concepts and prototypes. Know-how and when to create, organise and combine flows, user stories, sketches, wireframes, and deliver specs in organised files

• Create concepts, update flows, or refine designs that represent the big-thinking work.

• Balance a people-focused design mentality against business requirements. Refine your designs through feedback, whether through hands-on research, user research, or designing options for testing

• Design high-quality product experiences across various platforms including web, desktop, and mobile whilst caring about the impact

• Focus on holistic design

• Practice storytelling through design

• Modify, revise and work collaboratively within existing designs to meet business goals.

• Stay up to date on industry trends. Bring new ideas to the table

• Participate in regular design reviews where you’ll seek out feedback on your designs at specific project points and incorporate relevant feedback

• Participate in and shape design team culture – practice empathy

• Impact business goals through the effective and efficient development of design solutions

You will need:

• A portfolio

• Proven track record in high-quality UX/UI implementation

• Be comfortable making mistakes. Be open and willing to learn from them.

• To provide examples of lived behaviour and alignment with our team values

• Proven experience in inspiring creative ideas and working successfully with product owners

• Adaptability to suit working in a dynamic work environment and fast-growing company

• Have proven design skills, experience shipping products, and understand what it takes to build valuable and meaningful experiences.

• Familiarity with software platforms such as Sketch, Figma, Photoshop (or equivalent UX/UI industry-standard tools)

• Must be able to read, write and speak in English

Desirable

• Familiarity with Design file version control such as Plant, Abstrakt (or equivalent UX/UI industry-standard tools)

• Familiarity with Project management tools such as Asana, Producteev (or equivalent UX/UI industry-standard tools)

• Comfortable working with extensive UI kits and sketch created product libraries

• Experience working with Auto-Layout in Sketch

• Experience working with Agile project management

• Experience working with HTML/CSS

You will get:

• Competitive rates of pay

• Regular salary review

• Remote working

• The space to stay an active participant in shaping your career and select a design specialism later down the line.

• Regular feedback on performance, and upcoming projects and opportunities

• Space in a passionate, collaborative, empathetic team that works on cutting-edge product development.

• Support and the opportunity to undertake training and professional development

• Access to our online learning resources

• Social activities and team-building excursions

• Pension plan

• Life insurance

• Access to Employee assistance program

Learn about life at RouteNote

Creative team values

• Customer centricity – not competition focus. Intrinsic motivation. Get to know our users.

• Long-term thinking – simplify, refine, improve and update. We love an MVP. Every journey starts with the first few steps.

• Ingenuity – ability to solve difficult problems; the power of creative imagination.

• Application – plan out your how. Step with great care and great tact. Collaborate, draw on the expertise and infrastructure of colleagues, teammates, departments, and the wider company.

• Ownership and accountability – take responsibility for your work from reception to outcome, honour commitments made, inform relevant stakeholders.

• Be prepared to make mistakes – know that you’re safe in doing so. Own and learn from mistakes, be optimistic and curious.

• Resourcefulness – be resourceful, creative, and ready to challenge boundaries with your ideas.

• Hit us where it hurts – If there is a problem, say so.

RouteNote is an equal opportunity employer. No matter where you’re from, what you look like, your background, how you operate in the world, or what you’re listening to – you are welcome at RouteNote. Our platform is open to anyone, anywhere and so is the creative team. We have a strong culture of inclusion and flexibility. We want you to help us create a world where millions of people are more creative, fulfilled, and inspired. We are a team full of real, living, breathing, feeling human people looking to expand.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: #ux #ui #design. Salaries: 20,000 - 40,000.

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