Senior Product Designer - Daft.ie (12 month contract)

What’s the Opportunity

We are seeking an innovative and driven Senior Product Designer to lead design initiatives for Daft.ie, with a particular focus on making buying and selling property simple for everyone across the country. With over 3 million users visiting our website and apps every month, we’re driven by the opportunity to enhance the home buying and selling experience. If you’re excited to do impactful work that reaches hundreds of thousands of people daily, this could be the perfect role for you.

In this role you will play a pivotal role in crafting and maintaining the benchmarks of design quality, encouraging a culture of innovation, and delivering outstanding user experiences that set us apart in the market.

Please note: This is an initial 12-month contract.

What will I be doing

• Setting and Elevating Design Standards: Define and uphold design standards to ensure a user-friendly, intuitive product experience, pushing the boundaries of innovation in the automotive marketplace.

• Conducting detailed Design Reviews: Provide insightful feedback to maintain consistency and quality within design, promoting excellence as part of our culture.

• Solving user problems through design: Collaborate closely with Product to identify user problems or opportunities and create lean innovative solutions to solve these problems.

• Advocating for Usability Testing and Research: Champion usability testing, user research, and data-driven decision-making to continuously improve product experiences, iterating based on user feedback.

• Using data to support design decisions: Leverage our wealth of user data and tools (GA, Hotjar, Convert) to complement and strengthen design thinking.

• Crafting Design Visions: Develop design & product visions aligned with the goals and objectives of our marketplace platform, driving innovative and impactful improvements.

• Leading by Example: Encourage and empower fellow designers with an innovative approach and thought leadership, contributing to a collaborative and creative work environment.

• Fostering a Positive Team Culture: Promote diversity of thought, inclusivity, and collaboration within the design team, encouraging every member to contribute their valuable perspectives.

What skills and experience do I need

• History of crafting beautiful experiences: At least 5 years experience in the field of Product Design or UX/UI fields.

• Compelling Portfolio: Showcase a portfolio demonstrating previous Product/UX/UI Design experience, highlighting innovative solutions and how they impacted on metrics.

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to align design efforts with overarching business strategy, driving significant impact through design initiatives.

• User-Centred Design: Strong understanding of user-centred design principles, design thinking, and research methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, with a focus on user outstanding user experience happiness and behaviour metrics.

• Expertise in Design Tools: Proficiency in Figma, Miro, Adobe Creative Suite and similar software to enable effective design delivery and execution, with a strong understanding of Design Systems to ensure consistency, scalability and continuous improvement.

• Collaboration and Communication: Ability to optimally communicate ideas and rationale to cross functional teams, through strong storytelling ability. 

• Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile development environment, emphasising iterative design and rapid prototyping in an open and regular feedback culture.

• Front-End Development Knowledge: Understanding of front-end development technologies and their impact on design decisions, facilitating flawless collaboration with engineering teams.

• Thought Leadership: Demonstrated ability to inspire and influence others through your innovative thinking and willingness to explore and test new ideas.

What’s it like to work here

You will have the opportunity to work with one of Ireland's fastest growing Internet companies. You will get the chance to create a significant contribution to our strategic direction. Projects are exciting and employees are given wide scope for creativity and innovation

Benefits - what you can expect

• Our goal is to maintain a culture where people look forward to work – whether in our centrally located office in Dublin or working from home, which is optional for all employees.

• We do that by making Distilled a place you'll be listened to and trusted to do your job. Where you can have fun, learn and feel appreciated. And where you get focused career development, growth and progression opportunities.

• We want you to feel confident that this is the right place for you, your career, your wellbeing and your future.

More about Distilled

We exist to make buying and selling in Ireland simple.

We put our people first, creating an inclusive environment where we can develop products that put our users first. We value people’s work and time, creating a community where they have an opportunity to make an impact and grow.

Our challenge is to enhance our market-leading products using insights and empathy to present our users with the perfect match.

What we build is technology, but what we do is create connections for life’s most meaningful moments. We are Distilled and we bring people together.

Our Values

We have five core values: We have a growth mindset. We like to simplify things and make things happen. We collaborate across teams, business units and brands. We're passionate about what we do.

These values give us a framework for leadership and daily decision making. They embody how we behave and present ourselves — as individuals and as a business — both internally and externally for our colleagues, our users and our customers.

We are a diverse bunch of people here in Distilled, and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our Company. We do not discriminate based on gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race and membership of the Traveller community.