As a mid UX/UI Designer at Bilue, you’ll be working alongside a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, designers and delivery managers on varied and exciting projects with a wide range of clients.

You will research and design beautiful mobile and web solutions, continuously developing your craft in research, ideation, prototyping, user testing, and user interface design. You'll contribute to creating meaningful, user-centric products that make a real difference in people's lives.

This role will allow you to develop and refine your skills while collaborating with senior Biluers to create practical, impactful solutions. Your hunger for learning and growth will help drive innovation, as you apply best practices across varied projects in mobile, web, cloud, and beyond.

Responsibilities:

• Support and deliver user-centric design solutions across research, ideation, prototyping, user testing, and user interface design.

• Work with engineers, designers, and product owners in an agile environment to solve problems and create sophisticated designs.

• Seek new opportunities to learn, adopt emerging best practices, and apply your skills across multiple projects.

• Ideate and research solutions before collaborating with senior staff for review and development.

• With guidance, develop a commercial consulting mindset, understanding client obligations and enhancing ROI.

The Presentation team creates award winning visual stories, illustrations and graphics for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WAToday.

We work alongside the country’s best journalists, photographers, video producers and editors to produce industry-leading visual content that informs and engages our audience.

The role of Senior Visual Designer reports into the Creative Director. The primary focus will be to elevate the visual treatment of marquee storytelling, including investigations and exclusives.

Day to day you will:

• Work alongside Journalists and editors on visual content for news and features
• Create digital artwork and illustration for premium stories
• Be audience centric - put our audience experience first and foremost
• Regularly identify potential for visual stories and generate original ideas Employee responsibilities
• Work quickly and accurately to ensure deadlines are met
• Be a supportive member of the team, providing assistance and advice to others when applicable
• Keep abreast of industry best practice

Please include a portfolio of your work in your application

We are seeking an experienced UX Designer to spearhead the discovery and design of a new greenfield software product. In this role, you will lead workshops with key stakeholders and third-party vendors, establish design requirements, and ensure the product delivers a best-in-class user experience. You will collaborate closely with product managers, developers, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into compelling and intuitive digital experiences.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Discovery & Research:

  • Conduct in-depth user research to identify pain points, opportunities, and user needs

  • Facilitate and lead workshops with external stakeholders and third-party vendors to gather insights, define project scope, and set clear design goals.

  • Establish a clear vision for the product's user experience, rooted in research findings and industry best practices.

• Design Strategy & Planning:

  • Develop a UX strategy that aligns with business objectives and user needs.

  • Define design requirements and create a roadmap for the product’s UX development.

  • Create personas, journey maps, and wireframes to visualise user interactions.

• Stakeholder & Vendor Collaboration:

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and third-party vendors, to ensure cohesive UX strategies and execution.

  • Promote user-centred design principles during all phases of the product lifecycle.

  • Present design concepts and research findings to stakeholders to guide decision-making.

• UX Design & Prototyping:

  • Lead the design and development of wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity user interfaces.

  • Ensure designs are tested, iterated, and refined based on user feedback.

  • Work closely with development teams to ensure smooth implementation of designs.

The Local Project is Australia, New Zealand, and North America's fastest growing design publication, celebrating extraordinary local design to our global community. With a focus on uncovering and understanding the impact that design makes on everyday experiences, The Local Project celebrates honest and human-centred design through premium print, digital, editorial, video and social content, with over 100,000,000+ impressions per month across our owned, operated and third-party platforms.

Role Introduction...

As Senior Graphic Designer you'll work on every aspect of our creative outputs whilst helping mentor and coach the wider design team.

Some of the things you'll be working on...

- Digital content creation for web and social media: designing and managing assets for our website and social media channels including EDMs, social media content, web banners (static and animated) 

- Lead and mentor an established team of talented mid level designers

- Delivering high-quality design for print collateral and our tri-annual print publications: The Local Project, The Commercial Project, The Local Marketplace 

- Creating and managing documents and presentations for clients as well as internal use 

- Working collaboratively with the wider design team to deliver outputs on time and to brief 

Experience you'll need... 

- Proven experience as a Senior Designer, ideally with a minimum of 2+ years operating at a senior level

- A motivated leadership style with a can-do attitude.

- Advanced skills across the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator 

- Intermediate knowledge of After Effects, Premiere Pro, Figma and Woodwing

- A strong portfolio of work across web, print and social media channels

- Previous experience in print publications highly regarded, as is knowledge or interest in architecture

Application process

At The Local Project we believe that skills and potential come in various forms. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t meet every single requirement in our job posting, we recognise that every candidate brings a unique set of skills, experiences and perspectives. We’re interested in potential, enthusiasm and dedication to your craft, as well as your experience, so if you believe you can make a meaningful contribution then we encourage you to apply. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people of any race, sexual orientation, gender, age or ethnicity, and those who are culturally or linguistically diverse, gender diverse, neuro-diverse or living with a disability.