Senior Product Designer
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About Auror At Auror, we’re empowering the retail industry to tackle theft and Organised Retail Crime, a $150 Billion problem globally. It’s high volume crime that’s increasingly organised in nature and is putting people, retailers, and communities at risk every day. Founded in New Zealand 11 years ago, we’re working with some of the best and largest retailers in the world across the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Auror is connecting people and intelligence to reduce crime. We’re using technology for good. In partnership with our leading retail partners, we need people with the passion, determination, and innovation required to overcome one of the world's largest problems. If you’re looking to make a difference with and for the people dedicated to stopping crime, for good, then we want you on our team. The Role We’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to help us unlock our ‘next-generation’ user experience and interface. Using cutting edge technology and technique, you’ll help explore the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning for our customers, creating an experience that surpasses expectations and sets a new benchmark for crime intelligence. You will be joining our highly collaborative Product team who are responsible for shipping great product, from idea through to delivery, playing a critical role of designing the experiences we provide our customers, enabling our business to scale and take our software to the world. At Auror, our Product squad work in streams. We currently have 7 streams of work and each stream has representatives from each team - this includes Product Manager, Product Design, Quality Assurance and Software Engineering. This way of working encourages and fosters collaboration amongst the team. The core responsibilities of this role include:
- Supporting the Product Squad to design a next-generation user experience by taking high level requirements, working them through an integrated and research focused design process to create exceptional experiences for our customers.
- Being involved in the end-to-end process of designing products from discovery, research, testing, launching and post-launch improvements. This includes partnering with a number of different people, internally and externally and bringing them along the journey.
- Partnering with our current and prospective customers, including household name retailers and law enforcement agencies to shape how we can reduce crime in our communities.
- Shaping the design practice, whether it’s internally with the design team or the wider business and contributing to developing best practices for our teams.
- Being an expert in visual design tools, such as Figma, including experience in creating and sharing interactive prototypes and design systems.
- Having a strong understanding of the ethical impact of the work undertaken, with a responsibility to create tools and services for good, and an ability to consider the wider implications of how your work can affect our users, law enforcement and most importantly, the people whose information is stored on our platform on behalf of our customers.
- Are pragmatic in your approach and find looking at the big picture and acting iteratively your happy place
- Are across all the latest and greatest technologies and methodologies within the design world and you have a modern style that suits a global enterprise platform
- Are comfortable taking high level written requirements and rough wireframes and designing beautiful experiences for our retailers and the police
- Have experience running a design process with user research, user flow, prototyping, co-design etc that enables you to make the best decisions for the business and our customers
- Enjoy variety in your role - you’re happy regardless of whether you’re doing rough sketches or pixel-perfect high fidelity designs
- Have expertise in visual design tools – I.E. Figma
- Enjoy collaborating with others and have experience working with a range of stakeholders from the Co-CEO’s to Customer Success and Sales to Engineers and Product Managers
- Competitive Salary Range: Depending on level of experience $110,000-$134,000 (IC3)
- Employee share scheme: You’ll own part of a company making a real difference!
- Flexibility: We are hard-working and outcome focused, but recognise there is more to life than work. We promote a healthy work/life blend.
- Shorter work weeks (at full pay): Everyone gets Friday afternoons off, so you can start your weekend early, and do more of whatever it is that makes you happy.
- Focus on mental and physical health: We understand how vital our health is and have policies to support your wellness, including: Wellness Days, and up to three expert sessions paid for every year.
- NiB Health Care Plan: Auror covers 100% of the cost of your individual health insurance plan.
- Family-friendly: We offer comprehensive parental leave and benefits for primary and non-primary caregivers, including a baby bonus and meals delivered to your door.
- Personal growth: We support our team to participate in courses, conferences, or events that will help them develop their skills.
- Team love: We have regular team lunches and social events where most (if not all) activities are during work hours.
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