Senior UI Designer - Brisbane, Australia

Senior User Interface Designer – Brisbane, Australia

At Rio Tinto, we are finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. For nearly 150 years we’ve been looking for new and better ways of doing things. Today you will find our teams around the world doing just that: seeking opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint, partnering to develop new technologies to decarbonise steel and aluminium production and create new products from waste. As part of the commitment to our purpose, Rio Tinto continues to build a world-class software product development team. Sitting within our company wide Information Systems & Technology function, our Products & Software Development (P&SD) team is focused on delivering high value and strategic products for the digital transformation of Rio Tinto. We are excited by the challenging problems we have to solve, supported by a culture that is value driven, diverse and inclusive, innovative, and fun. We think you might be surprised about what we are creating here at Rio Tinto.

About The Design Team You’ll Be Joining

We are committed to making a meaningful difference to the 49,000 people across Rio Tinto as they do their day-to-day jobs through our software. To do that well, and to deliver on our promises as a business, we know that user-centred design matters.

Across the landscape of software products needed to support a business of our size, we need to grow our Product Design team to several times its current size. Make no mistake, this is a unique opportunity to grow personally along with helping to scale a team that is driving new product development.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Designer you will be:

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product owners, business analysts, software developers) to design and deliver elegant, compelling, and user-friendly products.
• Working closely with the user experience (UX Strategy) team to effectively understand user needs, the end-to-end user experience and implement efficient user interface and interaction design solutions based on user research & feedback.
• Creating wireframes, prototypes & high-fidelity UI designs to communicate both the UI and user flow at the right level of detail in the phases before it is developed.
• Confidently presenting the team’s work to internal stakeholders, justifying the design solutions, and iterating on designs as needed.
• Assisting in the ongoing creation and maintenance of our design system to ensure consistency across company design team and digital properties.
• Making decisions about the foundations that build on our design system including colour palettes, typography, individual UI components, design tokens, and the creation of Figma variables and libraries to assist design workflow across the team.
• Working with developers to create UI components, patterns, and templated designs that can be scaled across different products and platforms.

What We Are Looking For

As our ideal Senior UI Designer:

• You are a designer who is naturally curious, passionate about design, and driven to create interfaces that are accessible, functional, and consistent across Rio Tinto’s products.
• You are willing to communicate, advise on best practice, build consensus and rapport with different stakeholders: our internal users, product owners, developers, leadership team and user experience (UX Strategy) designers.
• You have an excellent working knowledge of visual design principles and interaction design.
• You have worked closely with all stakeholders and team members in the end-to-end design and have knowledge in user experience design principles and processes.
• You are eager to visually communicate your ideas through developing prototypes that clearly illustrate functionality and design.
• You can understand the users broad set of needs and be creative in delivering high-quality product designs.
• You are experienced in designing for accessible and international audiences.
• You are comfortable working in a high pace and iterative environment across cross-functional teams and can simplify complex problems.
• You appreciate big picture thinking and while details are everything, creating an experience that always keeps our users in mind is equally important.
• You are a problem solver that is excited by a challenge and will use their knowledge of visual design to create engaging and innovative interfaces across web, mobile and tablet.
• You are an empathetic user advocate that values modern design solutions that have been backed up with research and data analysis.
• You demonstrate alignment with Rio Tinto’s values of Care, Courage and Curiosity.

And it’s essential that you have:

• 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
• 5+ years of experience in Interaction Design, Product or User Interface Design with a background in user experience and or visual design.
• Strong portfolio that that demonstrates attention to detail, a strong understanding of Material Guidelines and experience in designing and delivering high-quality, end-to end designs for significant web-based, tablet and mobile applications, and platforms.
• Worked with cross-functional teams using agile methodology from inception through implementation to deliver modern UI design.
• Strong experience using more than 1 collaboration, prototype and design tool (Figma, Adobe CC, Sketch) and Microsoft Suite.

Working At Rio Tinto

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. Our benefits for permanent Rio Tinto employees include:

• Your base salary reflects your skills, experience, and impact in the role you are performing in. Our salary ranges are reviewed annually to ensure they remain fair internally and externally.
• Health & Wellbeing. We care about your health. We offer flexible, comprehensive medical benefits to look after your total health and wellbeing to suit your needs and life stages. This includes subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Flexible Work Arrangements. We have a hybrid work model (in-office & from home), with our office always open to balancing flexibility and connection.
• Supportive Leave Policies. We enable leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, sick, paid parental). Our inclusive parental leave policy supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Growth & Development. We will support you to pursue growth and development opportunities aligned with your career aspirations.
• Employee Discount & Offers. We have established partnerships with several providers who offer access to exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, car, retail and more).
• Superannuation & Shares. Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packing options. Plus, we offer an award-winning employee share plan – myShare.

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 different.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy, please submit your application as soon as possible.”