Product Design Lead

Product Design Lead (UX/UI)

We encourage Indigenous Peoples and women to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• Tremendous opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Great work life balance, so you can spend more time on the things that are important to you outside of work
• Attractive salary, annual incentive program and a huge range of employee benefits and discounts designed to make life better
• Permanent position based in Perth, Australia with flexible work hours, hybrid work (work from home and the office), leave for all of life’s reasons

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Product Design Lead to play a crucial role in shaping the future of our team by cultivating a dynamic environment, contributing to strategic outcomes, and working with stakeholders to make a difference.

This is a great opportunity for an expert-level Product Designer with proven technical leadership abilities to use their talents to contribute to the success of the one of the world’s most successful mining organisations.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager Design and working in a collaborative community within our Digital Products department, you will:

• Master the design process from problem space, ideation to sketching and prototyping. Show off your skills in visual and interaction design by creating sketches, wireframes, flows, comps, and prototypes
• Use customer insights to guide design and help with research efforts
• Analyse data and understand customer perspectives to identify problems and opportunities
• Create clear and engaging visualisations to communicate research findings to teams and stakeholders
• Combine stakeholder vision, user insights, and team discussions into design proposals
• Propose creative interactive experiences based on research and ideation
• Facilitate ideation sessions and workshops with stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Use design systems effectively and understand their differences with bespoke product patterns
• Test and improve your designs with stakeholders and users
• Explain your design decisions clearly to team members and stakeholders

What you’ll bring

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn’t align 100%, we still want to hear from you.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Use design tools like Figma, Miro, Dovetail, and testing tools efficiently. 
• Strong portfolio that shows insights into your UX process and demonstrates creative problem-solving skills and conceptual thinking
• 5 plus years of experience as a UX practitioner with a background in user experience design, interaction design or similar
• Worked with a cross-functional team using agile methodology from inception to implementation to deliver impactful user experiences
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Computer Science, Visual Design, Communication Design or other related discipline, or equivalent experience or training

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have helped the world progress.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidized private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership goals.
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Flexible working arrangements

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for over 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us who we are.