The Company 

HooYu is a global customer onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) specialist. Our client base covers both regulated and non-regulated sectors across the UK and international marketplace, and a variety of customer sizes from start-ups through to multi-national organisations.

Our unparalleled, market-leading approach to successful customer onboarding and the integrity of our KYC processes means we’re trusted by Tier 1 banks such as NatWest and Virgin Money, as well as other leading financial service providers, FinTechs, and online gaming firms such as Betfred and Tombola.

The HooYu platform blendsID document validation, online profile analysis, geo-location, open banking and facial biometrics with traditional database checks and PEPS & sanctions screening to offer a complete solution to help businesses know who they are dealing with. All of this technology is combined with smart UI & UX features to help our clients maximise the success of their customer account opening journey.

HooYu was recently acquired by Mitek, a NASDAQ-listed global leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention based in San Diego, California in an all-cash £98 million deal. With offices all across the US and Europe, and an unparalleled, powerful identity and onboarding platform behind you, it is a hugely exciting time to join the company.

The Position

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the UK’s most dynamic web companies during a period of exciting growth. The Digital Designer will have a background in Graphic Design, User Centered Design (UX / UI) & with a good understanding of HTML/CSS/JS.

The position will be joining a strong technical team and be working on the user experience of HooYu.com and other online platforms with a strong mobile web orientation. This is an online environment and HooYu.com is a fast paced organization with demanding customer service and operational excellence requirements.

Principle responsibilies:

• Transfer business requirements into conceptual designs (wireframes, sitemaps, flowcharts, Online Ads)
• Create high level visual designs in Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign
• Quickly iterate on multiple solutions as required
• Work with the Lead UX\UI Designer and create inspiring and engaging assets
• Comfortable creating a whole brand concept and evaluating a brands visual language
• Consistent design system / brand guidelines
• Test assets and optimize based on their performance
• Design engaging user interfaces and user journeys through use of mock-ups and paper and click through prototypes that demonstrate strong visual understanding
• Eloquently present designs and review with a variety of stakeholders
• Iterate new designs based on user feedback.
• Create digital assets (static, video, and HTML) for a range of platforms (social, display advertising, websites, mobile apps, etc.).
• Create website assets from hero design to web animations.
• Create email designs for CRM programs and coordinate the creation of email templates in HTML.
• Design and develop homepages, landing pages, and email concepts.
• Assist in user research and other user centered design activities
• Fluent in responsive design, mobile/tablet UI/UX
• Basic knowledge of HTML5/CSS3 development for mobile and desktop web
• Compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proficiency in visual design and aesthetics
• Excellent design skills and creative solutions following recent design trends and standards
• Experience theoretical and practical knowledge in Information Architecture, Human-Computer
• Interaction, and usability and navigation design principles
• Experience with Responsive Design, mobile/tablet UI/UX
• Experience of the Adobe Creative Suite especially Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• Excellent eye for aesthetics: layout, grid systems, colour theory and typography
• An understanding of accessible website development
• Experience working with WordPress
• Knowledge of prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, etc.

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience with Agile / Kanban methodology
• Knowledge of Project management tools such as JIRA / Confluence
• SEO Techniques exposure

Personal Skills & Qualities:

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills
• Self-motivated with strong team spirit
• Ability to work independently with little supervision as well as ability to work within a team
• Excellent multi-tasking skills
• Ability to communicate well to both technical and non-technical staff
• Formal education in UI/UX design is a definite plus

We believe in equal opportunities:

It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.

If your application is successful, please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:

• We will check your details against disclosure barring service
• We will check identity; address match; adverse financial checks (CCJ, bankruptcy)
• We will be requesting verification of all activity for the 3 years prior to joining HooYu, including employment references, education references and character references for any periods of unemployment

If you wish to apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@hooyu.com.