About miDrive
miDrive
is reinventing learner driving and insurance. Frustrated by the poor
safety outcomes, high costs, and lack of transparency in the learn to
drive industry, miDrive set out to disrupt it.
Based in
Shoreditch, miDrive uses tech and data with a fresh attitude to empower
both learners and instructors. Offering the largest marketplace of
independent instructors (all fully approved, highest rated in the
industry) and mobile-first tools to support learning, miDrive is first
time driving as it should be.
Over 300,000 young people in the
UK have already gained their independence with miDrive. Having
reinvented learning to drive, miDrive’s next set of products focus on
reinventing first time insurance.
Founded in 2013, miDrive has
raised £5m to date from a respected group of well-connected and
supportive investors ‒ including Holiday Extras & Initial Capital.
Learn more at midrive.com
Role Objectives
Based
in Holborn, miDrive is seeking a full-time UX/UI Designer to join our
team. Reporting to the Head of Product, we are seeking an
entrepreneurial, strategic, technical, and passionate designer to shape
our web and mobile product design. miDrive is growing its presence
across the UK, but also plans to launch its current product into Europe
while introducing additional products which will truly enhance learner
driving.
miDrive is undergoing a complete brand refresh. The new
design language will include 3D paper cut-out animation, subtle
patterns, and bold typography. The UX/UI designer will play a big role
in shaping the new look and feel of our brand. We want to ensure our
customers have an exciting and memorable experience using our
interfaces. The UX/UI designer will help us refresh our award-winning
Theory App, Instructor App, Learner App, and miDrive.com. They will
also help the team launch our innovative new Insurance App and future
InsurTech interfaces.
Our ideal candidate will come from a
start-up or agency technical background with an ability to translate
high level requirements into intuitive and user friendly new features
for our website and app interfaces. We are seeking an analytical and
creative designer who is able to grasp user needs and solve problems. A
strong portfolio of successful UX and other technical projects is
essential. The ideal candidate will be organized, know how to manage
multiple projects and can communicate with internal and external
stakeholders at all levels. We are a collaborative, smart and
hardworking team and are excited to welcome this important role into the
company!
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Understand and synthesise product specifications and user requirements and psychology
- Partner
with the product and engineering teams to create a seamless and
exciting visual experience to enhance our customer experience
- Own all visual design stages from concept to hand-off to our engineering team
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user, task and process flows to effectively convey design ideas
- Conduct concept and usability testing and gather feedback
- Evaluate and prioritize new deliverables with our Head of Product and Senior Leadership Team
- Use UX research tools and best practices for your designs
- Help make miDrive the number one app for new drivers and shake up the insurance world
Requirements
What We’re Looking For
- A degree in Business, Computer Science, Technology, or related area
- 4+ years experience in progressive Web and UX/UI roles in corporate, agency or start up environments (internships count!)
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment with web responsive platforms and iOS/android interfaces
- Strong web design fundamentals and principles
- Customer oriented with a desire to understand customer problems
- Exposure to interaction design and information architecture
- Experience using design software such as Balsamiq or Sketch
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with strong critical thinking and decision making skills
- Ability to focus and prioritize with multiple competing deadlines
- Working knowledge of HTML/CSS; JavaScript is an asset
Benefits
At
miDrive, we believe it’s the people that work here that makes us
successful. We are a start-up with big ambitions and we work hard so we
want to give our people benefits that they really want. We’re constantly
adding to this as new people join but here’s a list of the sorts of
things you can expect:
- TGIMonday Breakfasts, Juice Wednesdays, Happy Hour Thursdays
- Fun
social events - recent adventures have included escape rooms, comedy
clubs, and visits to high up places (e.g. Shard, SkyGarden)
- Regular guest speakers, networking events and ping pong (anytime)
- Free beer, cider and prosecco all on tap!
- Up to 2 weeks unpaid leave per year to pursue personal projects (additional to standard holiday allowance)
- miDrive stock options
Application Method
- We are accepting applications until May 8th, 2017
- Recruitment firms or agencies - Do not send applications for candidates as they will not be considered
