Digital Product Designer; B2B

Department: Product Design

Hours: Full-Time

Contract type: Contract (B2B via Ltd/LLC)

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay.

We’re a remote‑first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

We’re looking for an experienced, hands‑on Digital Product Designer, with strong UX and product strategy skills, as well as great Visual Design skills to join our Product Design team on a contract basis.

The ideal person is someone who can bring their drive, passion and experience to our work and processes, working potentially as the solo designer in a cross‑functional team, alongside engineers, currently on a remote basis, but with access to client’s offices in central London.

We expect that you have a successful background in Digital Product Design and that you are comfortably familiar with a combination of specialisms, such as UX Design, Product Strategy, Service Design, and UI Design; a blend of these skills is a big advantage, but your core skills and real strength really sits in Product and UX Design. Experience working with, or a good knowledge of, implementing web accessibility would be a big bonus too.

As an experienced Digital Product Designer, we assume that you have strong UX Design & Research skills, and as someone who is also a good Interaction Designer, you’ll have a deep understanding of Information Architecture.

We strongly support that you have some kind of official UX training, as well as a substantial amount of real‑life professional experience. An interest or experience in AI and open AI would be an extra welcomed bonus, though not expected, nor required.

(Coding ability would be a benefit, but is in no way essential - HTML, CSS, JS, Swift or any other language.)

• You have significant experience in Design Systems and UX design;
• You can take the long‑term vision and help define it into a product design strategy, composed of complex service and product design projects;
• You know how to visualise responsive websites and applications, and the thought processes required;
• You make good structural design decisions for feature sets that are well‑defined or limited in scope;
• You’ll deliver quality design work and inspire our clients to work towards these standards;
• You can balance relatively complex user, business, and technical requirements to arrive at sound information‑architecture designs;
• When it comes to visual outputs, you always base your decisions on solid visual design principles and are proficient in using the right tool for the job;
• You can happily and expertly build complex, accurate wireframes, following existing visual‑design guidelines;
• You expertly collaborate with product teams to understand how all aspects of a product’s functionality would work within an established visual design framework;
• You can define and document new interaction design patterns specific to a product or platform;
• You’re comfortable in the design software of your choice, but generally software agnostic with a keen ability to pick up a new one quickly, should it be required (e.g. Sketch, Figma, Framer, Adobe XD, Marvel, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.);
• You have a hands‑on approach to User Research and Usability Testing;
• You employ user feedback techniques to influence design decisions;
• You have done significant work on and with design systems covering: audits, foundations, documentation, governance, variables, tokens and of course component creation.
• Your ability to work autonomously means that you’re equally comfortable working in a fully remote environment, as you would be in an office environment;
• You can work closely with the rest of the product team, including front and back‑end engineers, and PO/PM to…