UX/UI Designer

Who we are:

Bboxx is a UK-based Next Generation Utility company providing affordable, reliable and clean energy solutions to meet off-grid customers’ energy needs. We are fully vertically integrated, controlling every part of our customer experience. having already impacted over 2 million customers' lives with our solar home systems (SHS) so far and diversification into clean cooking and other utilities underway, we have 1000+ staff working across five offices in Europe, Asia and Africa - who are waking up every morning to transform the lives of our customers and to unlock their potential.

Role Brief:

Create the B2B experiences for new workstreams within our Pulse software ecosystem. Deliver clean and artful design that works well in a low bandwidth internet environment. Be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artefacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.

This role requires extensive collaboration and persuasion skills to influence others and respond positively to different points of view. It also requires deep empathy with a wide range of cultures and work patterns to deliver a design that works for all. Travel to field sites around Africa to engage directly with end users will be required approximately 4-6 times per year, typically for no longer than 1 week per visit.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management and front-end software teams to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Lead the process of turning ideas into workable models that can be handed off to software engineering for your assigned projects
• Execute all stages of UX/UI design process from concept to final hand-off to engineering
• Conduct user research and user testing to deeper understand their needs and behaviours.
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Present designs and key deliverables to a wide variety of stakeholders and incorporate any relevant feedback to reach a final design.
• Use brand design guidelines, design system, best practices, and standards
• Pro-actively propose areas that need design improvement within the product.
• Develop and communicate the design philosophy around Pulse so that everyone can see and understand how the different design choices combine.

Requirements

• Proven 5+ years of UX/UI experience
• Demonstrable UX/UI design skills with a strong portfolio
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in visual design and wire-framing tools, ideally Figma to easily share your design to FE Engineers
• Experience building/maintaining a design system
• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Up to date with the latest UX/UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or relevant experience.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process