Design Principal

Experience

8+ years in UX and product design or related fields

Salary

Location

Remote. Proximity to Dublin required for occasional in-person meetings and workshops

Hours and Flexibility

About The Role

Marino Software is a leading technology solutions company dedicated to creating exceptional customer experiences through research, design, and innovation. We're seeking a talented and experienced Lead UX & Product Designer to join our team and help us build cutting-edge solutions that drive business success.

As a Design Principal (UX, Product and Innovation), you will be responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and execution for assigned projects for our flagship client. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders, to ensure a seamless, user-centred design process. We’re seeking an individual who will be motivated by the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to a culture of design excellence within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field

Diversity

Your Skills and Experience

Responsibilities

Design Leadership: Lead the full spectrum of the design process, including research, conceptualization, prototyping, validation, and detailed design, ensuring high-quality outcomes that align with user needs and business goals.
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Engineers, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure a seamless product development process. Act as a pivotal bridge between design and non-design teams, facilitating communication and collaboration.
User-Centred Advocacy: Champion user-centred design principles and best practices across the organisation and client projects, contributing to a strong design culture that prioritises user needs and experiences.
Data-Driven Design: Utilise data-driven insights to inform design decisions, optimise existing designs, and uncover areas for innovation and improvement.
Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers and team members, promoting professional growth, learning, and a collaborative team environment.
Continuous Learning: Stay abreast of the latest trends, tools, and technologies in design to continually enhance the company’s design practice and offerings.

Requirements

Proven Expertise: Demonstrable experience with a portfolio showcasing excellence in UX and product design, particularly in consumer-facing products within regulated fields (advantageous).
Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically and work collaboratively across departments to align design initiatives with business objectives.
User-Centred Design Skills: Deep understanding of user-centred design, Design Thinking, UX methodologies, and usability best practices.
Communication Excellence: Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills to articulate design concepts and rationales to diverse stakeholders.
Agile and Collaborative: Experience in agile environments and adeptness at facilitating workshops, design sprints, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
Passion for Design: A strong passion for creating intuitive, user-friendly products that exceed customer expectations.

Benefits

Competitive salary.
Comprehensive health insurance.
Generous annual leave and paid time off policy.
36 hour standard working week.
Flexible work schedule and remote work options. While the role is based near Dublin, we value flexibility and offer options to work remotely when not required on-site.
Training and professional development opportunities. We are committed to the professional development of our team members and offer various opportunities for growth and advancement.
Collaborative and supportive work environment.

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The Hiring Process

Hiring for a software development role at Marino generally consists of 2 interviews and a tech test or demonstration.

Interviews

You can expect to be interviewed by the relevant team lead and our Software Development Director, but you may also interview with our CEO and others. The interviews are a chance for us to get to know each other better and see if we're a good match. You can expect that some questions will go into technical detail to reveal your level of expertise in certain areas, but we don’t interview in a way that necessitates studying in advance.

Tech Test

The tech test aims to give you a chance to demonstrate how you work and some of your software development skills. You will be given access to a repo containing a project and a list of known issues to work on for between 2 and 4 hours. You will have access to any tools, documentation and anything else you typically use in your day to day coding work, including the web.

Depending on how you feel you can best demonstrate your capabilities or how much time you're willing to commit, you may prefer to demonstrate an existing codebase or part of one developed by you, take a short online test, or have a more technically focussed interview instead.

Professional Development and Training

We aim to support all our developers' continued professional development. You will have regular one on ones with your team lead to discuss your progress and receive feedback and junior developers will work closely with more senior developers and receive dedicated mentorship where appropriate.

We regularly send developers to industry conferences or training events and can also support you gaining relevant certifications or qualifications including covering costs or providing additional leave for study.

Dev teams organise weekly team tech talks or watch videos together on interesting and relevant topics, and you can expense any books that are relevant to your work.

The Way We Work

Marino Software has a relatively flat hierarchy and provides an open and casual workplace. A lot of team communication (and plenty of socialising) happens in chat and it’s common to interact with many people across the company including people working in different roles or on entirely different projects.

There are 2 kinds of teams at Marino, functional teams and cross functional project teams. Functional teams are composed of people with similar skills (the Android team for example) and provide a consistent, stable environment to share best practices, learn from each other and grow.

Project teams are composed of people from different functional teams and work together building or maintaining a particular product or feature, typically for one of our clients. In general you will remain on the same functional team unless you want to change your specialisation but will move between many project teams over time. We have some demanding clients and we care about delivering quality work but we strive to provide an environment where people can enjoy their work and the company of those they work with.

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