Senior Product Designer

About Us

Making a meaningful difference with mission-critical software that empowers communities to thrive.

ReadyTech is more than just a one-trick pony playing in one market with one product, or one customer. We re-imagine, design, develop, and deliver technology to solve our customers’ diverse problems – supporting multiple businesses across a variety of markets to be ready for anything. We’re an ASX-listed company, which means we are stable, have a strong track record of sustainable growth, and have a significant number of long-term customers. So, what does this mean for you? It means we can offer you an experience that will push you to be your best, provide career-building challenges, and offer you numerous growth opportunities that can’t be found in any other company. It’s an inclusive environment where there is no place for politics, where we get our heads together to solve the problems that really matter to our customers, and where we always stay focused on our north star – the communities we serve, and society at large.

Key Accountabilities Of The Role

• Accountable for the design outcomes of your squad's work, ensuring they are fit-for-purpose
• Be conscious and aware of client requests and needs, ensuring they have received satisfactory consideration alongside the broader user base’s needs, resulting in pragmatic decisions that align with client needs and the product vision.
• Ensure your squad speaks to customers/users regularly (aiming for weekly).
• Sharing your team's design work across your squad and key individuals across ReadyTech, with regularity.
• Support the creation and implementation of a centralised design system.
• Support your Product Manager with strategic product and design decisions, planning work, and driving
  
  
  

Key Responsibilities Of The Role

• Conduct user research and gather insights to inform the design process, ensuring user centricity and usability.
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and Lead Engineer (as a ‘product trio’) to understand the product vision, goals, and user needs for education products.
• Create wireframes, experience maps, and prototypes to visualize and iterate on the product's structure, interactions, and user experience.
• Design intuitive and visually appealing interfaces for JR Plus/Ready Student, considering branding guidelines, accessibility, and industry best practices.
• Work closely with developers to ensure accurate implementation of designs and address any technical considerations.
• Take ownership of the end-to-end design process for your squad, from conceptualization to delivery, ensuring high-quality and timely execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, sales teams, support, delivery, leadership, and your product trio, to gather feedback and refine design solutions
• Mentor Product Designers and support them in driving towards skill improvement and better outcomes.
  
  
  

Key requirements for the role:

• Product & Design strategy: Experience and comfort in contributing to squad roadmap, project, and initiative planning and direction.
• User Experience (UX) Design: Ability to understand user needs, create user flows, conduct user research, and design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces
• Rapid design iteration: Comfort in exploring problem spaces through creating designs (wireframes to interactive prototypes), using designs to (in)validate hypotheses and ideas
• Development Awareness: Understanding of front-end and relevant back-end development technologies and their impact on design feasibility, ability to collaborate effectively with developers.
• A degree or relevant qualification in Product Design, User Experience, User Research, Human Computer Interaction, Visual Design or a related field.
• Proficiency in using design and prototyping tools such as Figma
• 4-7+ years of experience as a Product Designer or similar. Senior experienced is highly desirable.
• Evidenced experience working on complex systems and services
  
  
  

Why You Should Become a ReadyTecher

• A day off for your birthday- hip hip hooray!
• Additional 4 days of leave each year
• ReadyTecher Awards each quarter with the chance to win flights and accommodation to Hamilton Island
• Hybrid work, with in-house baristas in Australia via the Ready Beans team
• Access to Sonder- a technology-driven platform supported by safety, medical and mental health experts - available 24/7
• Paid parental leave
• Additional paid leave for miscarriage, endometriosis and menopause
• Volunteer leave
• Flu vaccinations
• And plenty of ReadyTech merch drops along the way!
  
  
  

ReadyTech is committed to seeing things through each other's eyes. We invest deeply in relationships by offering positivity, fairness and empathy in every interaction and love that everyone is different. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates our diversity of race, beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, age, disability status, marital status and more - so that every single one of us can feel like we belong.

As part of our commitment to ensuring a safe and secure working environment for all employees and in compliance with Australian regulations, please note that if selected for this role, you will be required to complete a comprehensive police check and an Australian working rights check. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding these requirements, please feel free to contact us.

So, if you are ready for anything, please apply today. Please note that if your application is progressed to the next stage, we will send you some testing to complete as part of your application as we have found this helps us to quickly identify potential ReadyTechers!

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