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🕒 May 8

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Human Made

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📱 Media

SaaS • Enterprise • Media

Human Made is a leading global WordPress agency, specializing in creating enterprise-grade content platforms and providing digital consultancy since 2011. The company develops scalable and secure WordPress solutions for some of the world's largest organizations, including brands like Standard Chartered and Harvard Gazette. With a diverse, fully remote team, Human Made is renowned for its expertise in building platforms that adapt to large teams and complex workflows, while driving engagement and return on investment. They also offer services in UX/UI design, CMS architecture, content migration, and ongoing technology consultancy. Human Made is committed to open-source innovation and serves clients across the globe, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions tailored to their clients’ needs. Their services include enterprise WordPress audits, staff augmentation, and seamless migrations from other platforms.

📋 Description

• Lead the UX/UI design process from concept to implementation. Take ownership at a project level for not only your own work, but work that interacts or impacts your own. • Collaborate closely with stakeholders in a professional and respectful way, including editorial teams, developers, and project managers, to gather requirements and understand the project’s vision. Work with clients and their expectations, navigating the relationship and taking ownership of client satisfaction. • Create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity mockups to communicate design ideas effectively. • Conduct user research, usability testing, and analyse feedback to inform design decisions and ensure the best user experience. • Design responsive and accessible interfaces that work seamlessly across various devices and platforms. • Develop a consistent design language and style guide for the project, ensuring a cohesive look and feel across all digital touchpoints. • Work with the development team to ensure that designs are technically feasible and implemented as intended. You should be able to adapt the designs to ensure they're feasible and able to be implemented within timeline and budget. • Stay up-to-date with the latest design trends, tools, and best practices, and apply them to the project. • Present design concepts and rationale to clients and internal teams, articulating the value of design choices in relation to business goals. • Deliver work on time and according to specifications. • Regular communication with both your team and the rest of the company. Willingness to check-in with your team throughout the week and notify them if you are struggling or need guidance on assigned tasks. Proactively address technical issues as they arise. Ability to prioritise tasks and to communicate issues to your team. • Helping others on your team when asked for assistance.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of proven experience in UX/UI design, with a strong portfolio showcasing editorial, publishing, or media-related projects. • User Interface (UI) Design: Strong ability to create visually appealing, intuitive, and functional user interfaces. • Systematic Design Approach: Understanding of design systems, reusable UI components, and pattern libraries to maintain consistency. • Responsive Design: Experience designing responsive interfaces that adapt to different screen sizes and devices. • Prototyping and Wireframing: Skilled in creating detailed wireframes and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma or, Sketch, or Adobe XD. • Typography and Layout: A keen eye for typography, layout, and composition, particularly in the context of editorial design. • Attention to Detail: Meticulous attention to detail, ensuring that designs meet the highest standards of quality. • MVP thinking: Understanding of how to break down designs into an MVP and phased enhancements. Ability to prioritize design features based on user impact and scale back functionality to align with development constraints when needed. • Scalability & Maintainability: Ability to design with future extensibility in mind, ensuring that UI components are modular and adaptable. • CMS experience: Familiarity with modern WordPress or other CMS platforms.Understanding of how blocks and patterns work in the WordPress editor. • Accessibility: Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG). • Animation: Understanding of basic motion design principles and micro-interactions. • Software Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator). • Web Technologies: Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how design translates into code. • User Research: Experience conducting user research, usability testing, and data analysis to inform design decisions. • Design Systems: Experience in developing and maintaining design systems and style guides. • Leadership: Proven experience leading design projects and collaborating and guiding development teams. • Iterative Approach: Experience in an agile environment, working in short feedback loops rather than waterfall-style delivery. • Familiarity with WordPress or other CMS platforms, knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), and experience with animation and micro-interactions. • Upper Intermediate use of English (we use the British Council’s level B2 as a guide) and Japanese

🏖️ Benefits

• Gain experience working in an agency, without a long term commitment • Competitive day rates • Work alongside some of the WordPress industry’s top engineers • Access to Slack channels which will open up plenty of opportunities to network with other WordPress peers at Human Made • The opportunity to explore Human Made with the potential of becoming a full-time employee