Lead UX & UI Designer

We are seeking a Lead UX & UI Designer to join our Fintech division to drive and own the design efforts for our client's application modernization program. This role is critical for ensuring a user-centric approach in redesigning and enhancing the user experience and interface. We want to bring creativity and unique design into the digital products we deliver.

The successful candidate will be able to efficiently interpret complex system requirements, collect and translate user insights into delightful functional user experiences. You will be leading by example, focussing on how users interact with the application and create an intuitive and easy to use interface.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the UX and UI design efforts for the modernization program, including mentor and guide designers within the team. Your team will be creating, and scaling digital features that drive process automation, optimisation and simplification, reducing the need for manual touch-points in the customer journey 
• Define a design system that reflects the clients design principles
• Oversee and govern the quality of design solutions, and identify experience risks or opportunities.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to understand user needs and business goals.
• Develop user personas, journey maps, and wireframes.
• Create high-fidelity prototypes and design specifications.
• Distill simplicity from complex user and system requirements.
• Work closely with dev teams to ensure design consistency and quality.
• Advocate for user-centered design principles and best practices.
• Can define and prioritise design problems effectively. 
• Host workshops, user research and feedback sessions with team and stakeholders.

• Extensive experience in UX and UI design, for complex applications.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centric design solutions.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Sketch, Figma etc.
• Experience with user research and usability testing methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to balance user needs with business goals.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - able to transfer ideas to UX flows and prototypes at speed. 
• Ability to work and design on your feet with continuous feedback loops for iterating through design evolutions on a constant basis until needs are fulfilled.
• Ability to travel and work onsite at client locations. 
• Flexible and easy to get on with, putting needs of the customer first.

The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.

Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera. We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world. You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.

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