User Interface Designer

Omnia is one of the Middle East’s leading brand and digital agencies and is focused on creating engaging brand and digital experiences through customer centric design and a strong technical know-how. Building websites, platforms and digital products for almost two decades, Omnia has seven offices worldwide with our Manchester based office becoming a design-focused office for us. Our team of specialists have helped architect a whole ecosystem of thriving global brands.

We are looking for a Mid-Level to Senior UI Designer to support a team of designers, providing training and mentorship. Together with the UX team, you’ll be responsible for building and implementing a design thinking culture.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with multidisciplinary teams to create exceptional digital products.
• Effectively manage time within a project to facilitate the delivery of a digital product on budget and on time.
• Able to look at current interfaces and websites, suggesting improvement to both UX and UI.
• Create visual experiences for customer-facing web, mobile and tablet-based applications.
• Transform wireframes into original, creative mock-ups.
• Inspire users with attractive, compelling designs while maintaining visual consistency and brand identity.
• Communicate with product team members to understand and interpret project requirement.
• Provide artistic direction and feedback on UI team projects.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to design e-mails, promotions, online ads, and marketing collateral when required.
• Create base design systems for our projects which include the modules, components and style sheets.

Job Requirements:

• Passion for outstanding, elegant design.
• Understanding and appreciation of standard user interface design concepts and processes.
• 7+ years experience in visual user interface design.
• In-depth knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, Figma. Knowledge of other creative programmes, such as Miro, Zeplin and Maze are also preferred.
• Use prototyping tools like Sketch and Figma, to not only to communicate ideas and concepts, but to test with real customers to encourage collaboration and iterative processes.
• Actively participate in concept development and design ideation.
• Actively able to speak to development, back-end and front-end during the build stage.
• Experience in brand design or working with brand designers.
• Exceptional organization skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Proven ability to support in delivery of multiple design requests in a timely fashion.

Education:

Degree in computer science/ engineering/ information technology