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ProductFor over 80 years, GfK has been a reliable and trusted insight partner for the world’s biggest companies and leading brands who make a difference in every consumer’s life - and we will continue to build on this. We connect data, science and innovative digital research solutions to provide answers for key business questions around consumers, markets, brands and media. With our headquarters in Germany and a presence in around 60 countries worldwide, you benefit from our global company with a diverse community of ~9,000 employees.
Harnessing the power of our workforce, the greatest asset we have is our people. As part of GfK, you can take your future into your own hands. We value talent, skills and responsibility and support your development within our international teams. We are proud of our heritage and our future: Currently we are in the latter stages of a transformational journey from a traditional market research company to a trusted provider of prescriptive data analytics powered by innovative technology. This is only possible with extraordinary people and this is why we are looking for YOU to help create our future. For our employees as well as for our clients we pursue one goal: Growth from Knowledge!
Job Description
GfK has a long-term vision to provide best in class digital products and services that help their clients make better decisions, now, and in the future. To help to deliver on this vision, we need a Product designer (UX and UI) to work on and deliver innovative data and workflow products for the platform. Help and be part of the digital transformation of GfK.
We are looking for a Product Designer – Design System, able to understand our business requirements and technical limitations and lead a team to translate them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes. You will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
At GfK, we strive to innovate and push the boundaries of market research products and redefine the relationship between market data and consumers. Our culture is diverse, agile and somewhat relaxed to our processes and we strongly encourage entrepreneurship and initiative. Our data scientists, creatives, developers and product owners collaborate across different disciplines to develop fully integrated solutions.
Role summary
This role will collaborate with Design and Development team members to build and maintain a design system that supports the product ecosystem. You'll evangelise the benefits and socialise improvements of the system throughout the organisation and empower its adoption.
As our platform grows, we need to ensure we can support a broader number of internal users for our design system.
You will work alongside our designers to accelerate progress against core responsibilities:
Create, maintain and manage a multi-product design system at a platform level
Own design system components - from concept, to documentation, to code
Take visual routes, platform principles and concepts into implementation to evolve the look and feel of our platform design language
Advocate for and embed the design system across the platform portfolio - supporting designers and engineers across different products and collaborating where the system doesn't meet their needs
Proactively seek opportunities to improve and enhance the design system with a view to improving metrics
Work with developers and designers to increase reusable components and accelerate design/delivery
Required skills and experience:
Demonstrable experience of successfully leading the development, design and deliver of a large scale, commercial design system
Advanced competency with Figma
Experience designing for accessibility and usability to ensure all users can enjoy our product
Pixel-perfect attention to detail
The ability to interface with developers and speak their language
A natural collaborator, able to work with designers and developers to understand detailed requirements
Experience with data visualisations a plus
Desired behaviours:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to clearly articulate ideas and requirements so they are understood by technical & non-technical teams
Strong persuasion and relationship building skills to influence others without authority and encourage collaboration between stakeholders
Capable of resolving challenges independently, escalating only when appropriate
A team player, able to work collaboratively with other members of the team and autonomously when required
Excellent self-organisation and ability to plan own work in line with the broader team plans and priorities
Contributes to strategy development, community building and knowledge sharing within Design, encouraging others to do the same
Please provide your portfolio with your application.
We offer an exciting work environment that brings people together. We encourage an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit. We make use of the latest digital technologies. We are looking for self-starters, who accept challenges and create solutions.
Can there be a better place to take center stage in the digital revolution? We are excited to getting to know you!
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