Company Overview
Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.
To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com
Role Summary
We’re looking for a proactive and autonomous UX Designer who can make a positive impact on the user experience of our digital products. You will be creating intuitive and user-friendly designs that will solve real, sometimes complex, design problems and will meet our users’ needs.
What you’ll be doing
- Work closely with our Head of Product, other Designers, Product Managers and Engineers, to solve problems and deliver user-friendly, and intuitive, finding the balance between user needs, business goals and technical feasibility.
- Plan, design, validate and improve the user experience of the product.
- Conceptualise and create pixel-perfect design mock-ups from sketches, wireframes, and other UX deliverables that represent your design thinking capabilities.
- Use and contribute to our growing web and mobile design systems, to help with creating a scalable design foundation.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders, to understand their needs and solve their problems.
- Participate in design review sessions with other user experience designers and receive constructive feedback that will help you develop your design abilities.
What we’re looking for
We invite applications from candidates who can demonstrate:
- Drive and self-motivation, with the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change;
- Relationship building, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport;
- Collaboration, able to work well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills, and deliver results;
- Resilience with the ability to persist and adapt;
- Smart problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas;
- Professional integrity and a respect for company values.
Other requirements
- 4+ years of experience designing digital products.
- Have a portfolio of projects that demonstrates strong UX and UI skills, contextualised with solid thinking and rationale.
- High proficiency with Figma and Miro.
- Experience in B2B, enterprise software design, or any other SaaS application will be considered as a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to have:
- Empathy, intellectual curiosity and openness to learning about shipping.
- Ability to prioritise tasks and being organised, when working on more than one project at the same time.
- Have a continuous improvement mindset. You appreciate that there are always ways to do things better and will speak up to ensure improvement in work, processes etc.
What can you expect from us?
- In return you will have an exciting opportunity to join and be part of a leading organisation that is shaping the maritime industry. This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly collaborative environment where there are significant opportunities for growth and development.
