Junior Product Designer
**FARFETCH **exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.
About The Role
You have a unique opportunity to join a global product design team who are enabling the digital transformation of the fashion industry, defining what luxury means for digital.
This role is for an ambitious and talented junior designer with a passion for craft. You will be working as a product designer within a multidisciplinary team (primarily design, engineering and product management). You are expected to have understanding of design methods and practices that will help your team make sense of their customers’ needs and behaviours. You will have technical knowledge of web or native UI and interaction design to ensure that the experience our customers have when using our products is appropriate, effective and coherent.
You are able to communicate the importance and value of shared, collaborative design systems and have demonstrable experience in contributing to as well as working with them.
You have a portfolio of examples which demonstrate your ability to fully understand a problem, identify value creating opportunities and to clearly communicate your team's intent.
What you'll do
You’ll be working collaboratively with your team (product owners, engineers, researchers and others) in defining the problem space and desired customers outcomes
You will support the execution and development of strategy in your area based on the learning and explanations created by the teams
You’ll help to define hierarchy of user needs for the design project (use cases, heuristics), making sure that when customers interact with your product the experience is coherent, effective and consistent with our brand
creating provocations and prototypes to help the team build better products and features for our customers
Use your knowledge and expertise of interaction design in micro-interactions and also at task and flow level
You are able to work in partnership with engineering teams and ensuring any design specifications are clear and well-understood by your team.
Who you are;
You have the ability to demonstrate the process and outcome of the evidence-based approach that you’ve employed on previous projects
You have enthusiasm and an appreciation for visual design
You have varied experience designing products for web or native platforms
You have excellent collaboration skills, as well as being able to constructively direct action within teams
You understand how to select and develop appropriate methods for prototyping and when to apply them as tools to remove risk
Before Applying
Through your application, we want to understand the skills and experiences you have that make you the perfect fit for this role and for FARFETCH. We’re passionate about creating the conditions for Farfetchers to grow and develop but we’re also looking for people who can hit the ground running, so make sure to apply for a position where you feel you can thrive.