JOB DESCRIPTION
UX Designer, Consumer ExperienceLocation: Belfast, Hybrid (2 days in office)
Full time, Permanent
Life at Everquote
Come join us at EverQuote, a leading online insurance marketplace. We're on a mission to help consumers better protect life's most important assets: their families, property and future.
Our design team focuses on delivering the best experience possible for shoppers, agents and all our internal and external partners across all of our products and markets. We’re currently invested in ensuring a fast and easy way to shop for insurance, as well as optimising our agent-facing experience to help carriers work smart and fast to provide the best deals.
We’re looking for a UX Designer who can join our small and energetic Site Experiences team, who take care of the consumer marketplace. In this role you’ll learn and grow through mentoring and support, as well as have the room to use your curiosity and self starting nature to crack on.
What you’ll do
- Work on initiatives across our consumer facing experiences, our insurance marketplace - delivering simple, engaging and performant solutions that help connect consumers with insurance providers
- Understand and advocate the needs of both our Everquote business, and our shoppers - ensuring we’re delivering evidence backed design solutions and decisions that balance business, user and technology considerations.
- Be a master of user research. From exploratory interviews to usability testing you evangelise continuous discovery, helping the team make informed design decisions from both qualitative and quantitative insights
- Ideate through sketching, mock-ups, storyboards & prototypes - delivering high-fidelity designs for our e-commerce user journeys
- Co-create with Product, Engineering & Data Insights teams across all stages of the product development lifecycle
- Support the evolution of our design system to ensure we continue to grow in an efficient, scalable and consistent way
- Believe in a culture of feedback and actively seek out feedback on your work and approaches
- Be an active figure in our design community, collaborating in our design routines, contributing to our culture of continuous learning and improvement
Who we are looking forEssential Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience designing digital user experiences
- Education in Graphic Design, Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Business or related disciplines
- Experience designing across the product development lifecycle, from concept through launch and optimising beyond
- Competency conducting and synthesising user research
- Understand and carefully consider the landscape on which you design, including information architecture, systems design and design systems
- Experience in working with, contributing to, and governance of design systems.
- Expert proficiency in core design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Experience designing e-commerce user experiences, with demonstrable focus on visual and interaction design
- Experience with experimentation design, as a part of CRO programmes
- Experience with user behaviour analytics, and tools such as Google Analytics, Amplitude, Hotjar etc.
- Experience working in an agile product development team
We still encourage you to apply even if you don’t match the job description perfectly. You never know how your background might align with what we are looking for. We look forward to hearing from you.
Interview Steps
- Telephone screen (Hiring Manager)
- Case Study / Design Challenge
- Working in a team - Interview
Applications will only be considered when accompanied with a portfolio.
Why EverQuote
At EverQuote NI we work with the latest and greatest technologies, we offer incredible learning and development opportunities, we value the diversity of our people and invest in outstanding career progression and flexibility and work/life balance.
- Our company is profitable & established.
- We encourage creative thinking and independent responsibilities
- Growth mindset culture regularly seeks to reflect and improve.
- This role offers a highly unique learning and development opportunity
- We encourage creative thinking and independent responsibilities
- Lunch catering to the office, fully-stocked kitchen, company outings to local restaurants, day trips, and more
- Very competitive salary
- Performance based bonus plan
- Flexible work environment
- 30 days annual leave plus 6 stats.
- Group Benefit Scheme - Private Healthcare, Dental and Optical insurance for you and your family
- Enhanced parental leave
- CSR and Social Events
Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities
EverQuote NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants. This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender, (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age of disability.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. All appointments will be made on merit.
Applicants should note EverQuote NI complete background checks on all candidates offered a position. Having a criminal record will not necessarily debar you from working with EverQuote NI Limited.
About EverQuote
EverQuote operates a leading online marketplace for insurance shopping, connecting consumers with insurance provider customers, which includes both carriers and agents. Our vision is to be the leading growth partner for property and casualty, or P&C, insurance providers. Our results-driven marketplace, powered by our proprietary data and technology platform, is improving the way insurance providers attract and connect with consumers shopping for insurance.
For more information, visit https://investors.everquote.com and follow on LinkedIn.
