Are you a tech-loving, self-motivated Product Designer with big ideas? Are you ready to shake things up and create next level design trends for a global company with over 74 Million users?

We are seeking a Product Designer to help drive the company's design system to refine and push our user experience to the next level, as well as launch exciting new features to our ever growing audience.

Twelve-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, which connects millions of clients to freelancers across the globe. You’ll be joining a highly experienced and fresh-minded tech-loving design team, directly contributing to the creative collaboration and reworking of Freelancer’s design space. You’ll have great creative vision and expertise in visual communication with UX, UI and branding.

The type of designer weʼre looking for:

• You are a Product Designer with a deep understanding and appreciation of digital technologies and how they are designed.
• You love people; empathizing with users, problem solving and creating amazing product experiences.
• Strong visual design skills, and being able to use them to craft engaging and meaningful experiences for our users.
• You love to prototype to help get your ideas across and refine and rework to get a working version out for live testing.
• Strong communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a collaborative workplace; partnering with the rest of the design team, product managers, engineers, and other disciplines throughout the company.

Responsibilities include:

• Work as part of the product design team designing features that impact millions of users, ensuring all user facing touch points align with our design system and the company’s overall vision.
• Collaborate with the Design Systems team to build the next generation UI components for the Freelancer ecosystem.
• Planning and conducting UX research projects (workshops, interviews, surveys and usability testing sessions) including defining research objectives, developing scripts and test plans, participant recruitment and conducting sessions.
• Producing journey maps, user flows, sketches and annotated wireframes.
• Determine information architecture and create sitemaps.
• Production of design prototypes (both low and high fidelity) for demos and stakeholder feedback.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience of end-to-end product design. You have a track-record of tackling complex problems and delivering simple and elegant solutions for digital products.
• Extensive experience working with Figma managing design systems. Experience with Adobe Creative Suite is also desirable.
• You have a great portfolio that demonstrates experience in designing world class user interfaces and product features.
• You excel in UI Design. You're driven to create strong visual designs that align with brand and design systems.
• Strong UX knowledge across iOS, Android, desktop apps and web.
• Attention to detail; master of typography, color theory and layout.
• Creative problem solving skills and conceptual thinker.
• Ability to work both within existing brand guidelines and on the development of new brands.
• Understanding of information architecture, responsive web, native mobile design.
• Strong working knowledge of frontend web technologies. You do not need to be a developer though but need to understand how things will be built.
• Positive attitude, team player, and proactive contributor.
• Ability to support, take direction and deliver.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Benefits:

• Fast-track your career growth – our meritocratic culture is known for promoting from within and producing industry leaders in tech.
• Delicious Friday lunches from a rotating selection of local restaurants.
• A fully stocked kitchen and beer taps, complemented by a bar with a breathtaking view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
• Engaging Weekly Town Halls with global presentations and open Q&A sessions with our CEO (feel free to ask him anything!).
• Regular fun events (Did we mention we once built a soccer stadium in the office with two tonnes of turf?).
• Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide event where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
• Our office is located in the iconic Grosvenor Place, the home of Freelancer HQ, offering weekly complimentary classes, activities, events, promotions, competitions, and deals.

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:

• Change lives every day – Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale. Our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.
• Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry.

We are striving to shape the future of work, so help us scale to 100+ million users, while enjoying all the perks of working in tech - fun atmosphere, smart people, awesome office, fully-stocked kitchens (yes, free food!), social events, hackathons, and more!

Please note: This is a permanent, full-time role based in our Sydney office.

About Twine

We're a thriving ecosystem of top-tier freelancers from around the world. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and Silicon Valley startups, Twine is the go-to platform for mission-critical projects. With over half a million registered freelancers and a growing roster of 35,000+ companies, we've become the comprehensive solution for freelancing.

Our Mission

At Twine, we recognise that companies require a flexible approach to hiring expert freelancers for their most critical projects. Traditional freelance platforms often fall short when it comes to scalability and diversity. That's where we shine. Twine operates as a thriving global freelance network, with diverse experts across various fields, including marketing, engineering, and AI. Our core mission is to empower creators, whether they're businesses or individual freelancers, to thrive in their creative endeavours.

About the Role

We are seeking a freelance graphic designer for a branding & content agency. This involves supporting the design team in delivering various projects for clients under the supervision of the Design Director. The role includes working on conceptual projects like branding and campaign creative, print projects such as long-form documents and stationery, as well as digital projects like presentations, social media, digital ads, and UI design. Progression to end-to-end project responsibility, including smaller branding projects, is possible over time.

• 4+ years of experience in a design role
• A strong portfolio demonstrating creative capability and thinking
• Experience in a fast-paced creative environment
• The candidate should be proficient in various software like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Google & Microsoft Office Suites, and have the ability to effectively and efficiently deliver design projects. They should be adept at identifying and troubleshooting design issues, handling different file formats, and preparing designs for digital and print outputs.
• Curious, hungry, straight-talking, and a good team player
• Passionate about creativity and detail-oriented
• Proactive and forward-thinking
• Collaborative, always striving to improve their work