Digital Designer

About The Role

Purpose

This role is to work within our growing Digital Team to create user-centric products and experiences across all our digital applications. As a Digital Design at 7IM, you will work on projects across all our digital touchpoints and all stages of our UX and UI design process. You'll work with Digital Experience Manager, Product Manager, and our development team. Together you'll deliver UI mock-ups, prototypes, MLPs (minimal Lovable products) and final products. In this role, you'll be the voice of our customers, you'll translate their needs into user-friendly designs and will have direct impact on the customer's user-experience of our product.

Responsibilities

• Create engaging, visual, and interactive user experiences that provides exceptional client experience
• Collaborate alongside the CX Team to understand their vision and objectives
• Optimise existing experiences to boost user engagement
• Present ideas and designs and explain rationale to senior stakeholders
• Work with business and system analysts ensuring the user experience designs are understood to enable the requirements and solution to meet the design
• Support the development and testing teams ensuring the design is delivered as expected • Create and manage the digital style guides and design system
• Identify and troubleshoot UX/UI problems
• Work alongside the Head of Creative to ensure any designs remain consistent with design & brand guidelines
• Continually keep yourself updated with the latest UI and UX changes in the industry
• Supporting the Digital team with the day-to-day activities

About The Candidate

Skills

• Understanding of user-centered design methodology
• UI & UX design experience across mobile and web
• Experience creating wireframes, prototypes, storyboards, user flows, etc.
• Experience creating artwork and preparing assets for our digital products
• Ability to communicate your ideas in a clear and effective manner to both expert and non-expert audience
• Works well within cross-functional teams internally and with external supplier
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team
• Effective managing own workload
• Willing and keen to learn from the more experienced members of the team
• Awareness of technical SEO best practices
• Experience using tools such as Sketch, InVision, Adobe CS
• Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3 Javascript
• Understanding of online usability analysis tools

Other relevant information

• Reports to Head of Digital
• Occasional travel may be required
• The successful candidate will be client focused, self-motivated, adaptable, and resilient
• The candidate will need to understand and subscribe to 7IM's mission and tenets and in particular the Code of Conduct

About The Company

The '7' in 7IM refers to the seven original founders of the business. Back in 2002, they couldn't find a firm they trusted to manage their families' money properly - big banks seemed impersonal and greedy, while most boutiques lacked the necessary investment process and structure. They started the kind of organisation they'd like to invest with themselves.

Their aim was to deliver steady returns over the long term, while keeping an eye on risk, using the best technology. They wanted everyone to have access to the kind of service and expertise that institutional investors would expect.

We've evolved since then. In 2015 Caledonia Investments joined us as a major shareholder. In 2018 we acquired Tcam Asset Management, a firm we felt closely aligned with our investment philosophies and multi-asset approach. In 2020 we continued our long-term growth strategy and acquired the award winning London based financial planning firm Partners Wealth Management (PWM). PWM will continue to operate as an independent company, retaining its brand, identity and leadership.

Our team, our clients and our funds under management have grown steadily over the years. From our offices in London, Edinburgh and Jersey, more than 400 talented people manage over £19 billion for a range of clients, including individuals and families, financial advisers, corporates, charities and trustees.

We still follow our founders' plan and aim to get the simple things right all wrapped up with real, honest, human service - that's what sets us apart from everyone else.