About the Role
Aquent is partnering with a global leader in retail and home furnishings, a company dedicated to creating a better everyday life for many people. This organization is embarking on a significant journey to unify and enhance the development experience for its vast engineering community.
Responsibilities
•Translate complex research insights and user needs into tangible design concepts and compelling experience visions for critical platform products, including developer portals, onboarding flows, service catalogues, and dashboards.
•Establish and champion shared design patterns to bring coherence and consistency across a diverse portfolio of internal platform products.
•Design innovative AI agent interaction patterns and envision future-state experiences that leverage emerging technologies.
•Create impactful prototypes at various fidelities to validate design concepts directly with engineers, gathering critical feedback for rapid iteration.
•Support crucial stakeholder alignment by crafting compelling visual artifacts that effectively communicate future possibilities and secure buy-in.
•Work in fast, iterative cycles, collaborating closely with Service Designers and product teams to deliver impactful solutions quickly.
•Review research findings and journey maps to proactively identify design opportunities and areas for improvement.
•Define and document reusable UI patterns and design system components, contributing to a scalable and consistent internal tool ecosystem.
•Conduct usability testing and design validation sessions with engineers, ensuring solutions are user-centric and effective.
•Create experience vision artifacts such as storyboards, flows, and prototypes to facilitate leadership alignment.
•Collaborate daily with the Service Designer and Design Lead to align on priorities, direction, and strategic design decisions.
•Present design rationale and concepts to Senior Product Owners and engineering leads, advocating for user needs and design excellence.
•Iterate designs rapidly and pragmatically based on user feedback, embracing a culture of continuous improvement.
Requirements
•4+ years of hands-on experience in UX/Product Design, demonstrating a strong portfolio of end-to-end design work.
•Exceptional interaction and visual design skills, capable of taking concepts from initial sketch to high-fidelity prototypes.
•Proven experience designing complex, data-rich interfaces, such as dashboards, admin tools, or other developer-facing products.
•Strong systems thinking, with the ability to create coherent and unified experiences across multiple, interconnected products.
•Experience working effectively within agile, cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with engineers and product owners.
•Proficiency with industry-standard design tools including Figma and Miro, along with experience leveraging AI in design workflows.
•A self-driven mindset, proactively identifying opportunities and taking action without requiring detailed briefs.
•A pragmatic approach to design, understanding how to apply the right fidelity at the right moment to achieve project goals.
•Due to the contracting nature of this role, only candidates with unrestricted rights to work in The Netherlands will be considered.
Nice to Have
•Prior experience specifically designing developer tools, internal platforms, or B2B/enterprise products.
•Familiarity with design systems, including experience building or contributing to their development and maintenance.
Conditions
This is a 6-months fixed term salaried position contracted via Aquent on behalf of our client as a third party. There is the possibility for extension. The role offers up to €61.5K/annum (pro rata), based on experience – 40 hrs/week.
