Are you a talented and driven UX/UI Designer looking for an exciting opportunity? Travelex is seeking a creative professional to join their team on a 6-month remote contract. If you’re ready to showcase your skills and thrive in a dynamic environment, they want to hear from you!

About the Company

Founded in 1976, Travelex has established itself as a leading global provider of foreign exchange products, solutions, and services. The company operates across the entire foreign exchange value chain in over 20 countries. Travelex has developed a vast network of over 900 ATMs and 1,100 stores, strategically located in major international airports, transport hubs, shopping malls, high street locations, supermarkets, and city centers.

The company has also built a robust online and mobile foreign exchange platform, processing and delivering foreign currency orders for major banks, travel agencies, and hotels worldwide. Additionally, Travelex sources and distributes large quantities of foreign currency banknotes to central banks, international financial institutions, and other wholesale customers. The company offers a range of remittance and international money transfer services across the globe.  

Position: UX/UI Designer

Salary: £3,750 to £5,000 monthly

Job Type: Full Time

Location: Remote – with some travel related task

About the Role

As Travelex continues to enhance its digital customer offering, a significant online platform and frontend rebuild initiative requires the skills of two contract Product Designers, with expertise in UX and UI Design. These designers will join a high-functioning in-house team, focused on building user-centric solutions. Over a 6-month period, they will play a pivotal role improving product usability, while aligning with strategic business objectives. This will be achieved through comprehensive discovery, definition, and design processes.

Main Duties

  • Partner with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, Developers, Researchers and fellow Designers, to drive the end-to-end design process.
  • Evolve, manage, and maintain a comprehensive UI component library within Figma, ensuring consistency across all design deliverables.
  • Design, document, and maintain reusable components (including usage guidelines and best practices) as part of a wider design system, ensuring alignment with both current and future product requirements.
  • Create high-fidelity user interfaces that solve known usability issues, with the application of research findings, design principles and the Travelex UI library.
  • Consider design solutions in the context of white-label and partner delivery.
  • Present design solutions to stakeholders, articulating rationale and the user-centric insights that drove the approach.

Qualifications

  • Must have experience with a tokenised approach to UI design and development (Figma variables and/or Tokens Studio use).
  • Process driven, with a meticulous approach to digital asset creation, file management and project documentation.
  • Familiarity with front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to effectively communicate with development teams.
  • Practical knowledge of UX role in agile Scrum methodology ways of working.
  • Experience maintaining design systems with UI libraries in Figma.
  • A question driven, user focused approach to problem solving.
  • The ability to confidently present, actively listen and question, during Product meeting scenarios.

Preferred:

  • Degree in UXD or a relative qualification and/or experience.
  • Experience contracting in a global or corporate setting, especially within fast-paced, digital product environments.
  • Knowledge of the Tailwind CSS framework and designing for React Native builds
  • Portfolio examples of past CMS or white-label design collaborations
  • Portfolio examples of past finance or ecommerce design solutions
  • Technical / professional qualifications and experience:
  • Extensive experience building and managing UI libraries in Figma with a particular focus on the role of variables and modes
  • Working knowledge of MV testing and personalisation platforms
  • Excellent knowledge of working tools i.e., Figma, Miro, Trello, Jira, Confluence Microsoft Office 365,
  • Keen interest in emerging technologies

Required Documents

  1. CV/Resume
  2. Cover Letter

Application Process

Interested and qualified candidates should kindly CLICK HERE to learn more and apply

Application Deadline

Open until filled