Head of Product Design Ecosystems

Description

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Core Responsibilities

• Lead a team of product designers and graphic artists to drive new designs, concepts,
  and flows that fit our business requirements and delight end users with the best possible
  experience.
• Mentor, build, and guide your team of product designers. This leadership style includes
  design leadership where you are setting standards for designs and approaches that the
  team can easily consume and apply to their daily practices to excel and grow.
• Provide detailed feedback and work to iterate concepts that need work together with
  your team of product designers. In some cases, this will be high level where you can talk
  through your feedback and continue progressing – in other cases, it may require you to
  jump in and provide examples, details, or actively participating to assist. Feedback is
  particularly vital in cases where it may affect the dependencies and connected
  interaction designs.
• Create working Figma components and update design systems and patterns that are
  already in place. This may include many different sizes and breakpoints to accommodate
  all manner of devices, screen orientations, and resolutions. You will be very hands-on
  and need to understand the technical aspects of actual UI component design.
• Work closely with the product team to help conceptualise and iterate new designs for
  customers. While the role’s primary focus will be to execute and iterate through designs
  and prototypes, your input as part of the initial creative process is valuable. This will
  include participating in design reviews, team meetings, and brainstorming sessions.
• Meet with product, business analysis, and development teams to discuss the designs and
  prototypes. While these can ultimately help aid define the specification, building the
  products may require clarification and assistance, particularly if the development team is
  replicating challenging design patterns, animation sequences, and transitions.
• Assist the product and business analysis teams with questions about the designs and to
  help guide the specifications. This will require flow and scenario testing, which may
  require revisions to the designs for edge cases.
• Present concepts clearly, concisely, and effectively to the team and to stakeholders.
• Adjust designs based on feedback from stakeholders or from broader technical
  challenges, constraints, or limitations that may arise during the production process.
• Prepare tidy, thoughtful, and well-structured source files for development and supervise
  their implementation to ensure they are delivered according to the original vision.
• Where possible, take new design solutions and bring them to life by creating mobile and
  desktop prototypes. Those will be used to get a sense of how they will function in
  practice, help solve animation and interaction sequences and foster critical fine-tuning
  feedback from stakeholders. While static images give a great impression of the
  functionality, seeing it in action is even more valuable.
• Document new controls and designs so that other team members (or other teams) clearly
  understand the design decisions and how to use, implement, or maintain the outputs.
• Update design systems and common controls where necessary to ensure that iterations
  are then fully documented, updated, and usable by the rest of the team.
• Liaise with other design teams throughout the business to ensure broad alignment with
  design systems and characteristics.
• Create high-fidelity concepts and designs from the outset. While we may occasionally
  use coarser wireframes, we typically dig directly into the details from the outset to flesh
  out issues and understand how it will work practically.

• When executing designs, you need to consider how it fits within the broader system and
  how we may want to address other areas for consistency. This needs to be a measured
  and phased approach with a thoughtful application of prioritisation to address matters
  now versus later.
• Keep an eye on broader design trends and tools, especially within the gaming and
  entertainment spaces, to ensure that we are keeping up with best design practices and
  exceeding customer expectations.
• Provide thoughtful, considered feedback on the overall roadmap and user experience
  strategy.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

Education, Qualifications, and Background

•  You should have experience in a product or creative related field (such as a UI/UX
  designer), ideally with experience in iGaming.
• You should be able to understand the mindset of a gaming customer and balance those
  with the needs of our business-to-business clients.
• You must have built sophisticated, high-fidelity, production-like prototypes for mobile
  and desktop interfaces.
• You must have worked on and delivered large, complex projects facing consumers and
  internal customers alike. Be prepared to talk about these endeavours in great detail.
• You ideally should have led a team of product designers and/or other creative
  professionals.

Key Experience Areas

• You must be completely proficient with design tools such as Figma or Sketch.
• You should have a clear understanding of usability, user-centred design, and web
  standards.
•  You should be very comfortable with prototyping. Extremely high-fidelity prototyping
  using advanced tools like Origami Studio is a big advantage.
• Working knowledge of Adobe’s Creative Cloud Suite, particularly Photoshop and
  Illustrator is advantageous.
• Having the ability to delve into graphic design, motion graphics, animation, or video
  outside of product and UI design is a plus.
• Ideally you will have some technical background or knowledge. Understanding how
  developers build the interfaces and the challenges they face is tremendously valuable
  when designing solutions. Having the ability to code in HTML or CSS is advantageous.

•  Lead by example and be prepared to do everything that you would ask your team to do.
• Operate at different levels seamlessly. While this is a senior role that needs to operate
  strategically, you need to be able to dip directly into the details at the drop of a hat and
  provide direct assistance or contribution.
• Be exceptionally well-organised. There are going to be a lot of moving parts to this role
  so you must bring method and structure to your approach.
• Be extremely creative – this is a role that specifically designs experiences for players to
  have fun.
• Be obsessed with details and optimisations. Creating amazing player experiences means
  scrutinising every detail to ensure that you’re constantly delivering the best possible
  solution. In a such a highly competitive industry, small details can make a big difference.
• Take critical feedback well. A lot of different stakeholders are going to be looking at the
  designs and prototypes and providing their input – this is a critical part of the
  collaboration process. Knowing how to accept and act on feedback is vital to this role.
• Discuss constructively and diplomatically. Having many different views means that we
  won’t always agree – but we need to focus on collaborating solutions that deliver optimal
  outcomes for our customers.
• Be an expert communicator both visually and verbally. Your designs and prototypes
  should nearly speak for themselves; however, you still need to be able to walk different
  audiences through them in detail. For example, explaining them to stakeholders versus
  relaying the details to development.
• Exude transparency, openness, and objectivity. We’re all here to build great things and
  need to collaborate effectively.
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and be able to work to very tight deadlines. We work
  to visualise things quickly and make decisions to push the business forward.
  
  

• Opportunities for both professional growth and personal development.
• Taking part in creating studios as part of an award-winning iGaming business.
• Truly international experience and collaboration possibilities with impactful results.