Job Opportunities in United Kingdom

About Us

Cloudsmith is the world’s most powerful artifact management platform. Software organizations of all sizes use Cloudsmith to protect and manage their software supply chain.

Design at Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith’s customers are typically large enterprises who are looking to control, secure, and distribute their software. Our web applications are used by our most senior customers; people overseeing large teams, and selecting the right tools to offer to engineering orgs. Our ability to design excellent web-based solutions for those senior customers is crucial.
We’re building two new and distinct design teams inside Cloudsmith; one focused on our web applications and digital products, the other on our brand. This role sits within the first team, working on the design of web applications.

About the Role

As the UX Prototyping Lead on our Product Design team, you will explore and refine prototypes of possible new products and features. Your primary responsibilities will be:

• Ideation and new product definition: Working with product team to identify and describe emerging product needs; new features, new products
  
• Shaping designs: Working with designers to develop the target user experience, and informing the best way to deliver on those experiences.
  
• Prototype development: Creating intuitive, efficient, and engaging user interfaces for the browser that can be put in front of customers for testing, and inherited by engineering teams for further development towards launch
  
• Early specification: Documenting the prototype; describing what it does, doesn’t do, what data is needed for a future working version
  
• Collaboration to production: Working with engineering teams to share knowledge and help them get work into production
  

Minimum Requirements

• You must live in either the UK or Ireland to be eligible for this role and visa sponsorship is not available at this time
  
• 8+ years working on front-end prototyping projects - with extensive experience in HTML, CSS, JS
  
• Some experience developing web applications in React and/or Next JS (3-5 years of experience)
  
• Strong understanding of design practice and deliverables; working with design component libraries, design systems, Figma etc.
  

Our Preferred Candidate

• Likes to work fast to deliver a prototype early, prompting discussion and further refinement
  
• Has a core toolkit of well-understood tools and technologies, but is open to learning new frameworks and technologies when necessary
  
• Loves working in a fast paced environment with lots to learn, and many problems to solve
  

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary and Equity Package
• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Generous Annual Leave and Flexible Working Policies
• Professional Development Budget for Conferences and Training
• Dynamic, Innovative, and Supportive Work Environment

Health and Wellness
Regardless of your location, we deeply care about the health and wellness of our staff and their families; a sustainable pace is important to us. In addition to generous annual leave (PTO), we offer parental leave and health benefits that can cover you and your dependents up to 100%. We also offer flexible family-friendly working policies.


Personal Growth
You will have an enormous scope to learn new skills alongside your colleagues, and your continued professional development is essential to us because it's important to you. We will support you with budgets for equipment, training, books, conferences, travel, and certifications. The more powerful you become, the better for all of us.


Hybrid Work
Cloudsmith is based in Belfast, and we use out HQ regularly for activities like bi-weekly development review sessions and operations team in-office days. We also hold all-hands offsites in Belfast a few times per year, with guest speakers and team activities. On a day-to-day basis, most Cloudsmithers work remotely, so we really rely on our online collaboration tools!

About Equal Opportunity

We’re an equal opportunities employer who is proud to nurture a workplace that welcomes applications from individuals of all races, genders, and ethnic groups and we do not discriminate on age, religion, sexual orientation, citizenship status, military service, or health conditions. We will not tolerate discrimination of any kind within our workforce.