We want the finest Midweight UI designer known to humanity, and we want you now!

Midweight UI Designer – Perm

Who we are

For the past 10 years Project Simply has worked alongside some of the leading festivals, venues and events, creating amazing digital experiences. We are a leader in our field and work with brands such as Parklife and Second Home. We’re a small team of music and design enthusiasts, looking to help support the industries we love.

We also have our own festival and event web product, called Plot. Plot is a web system that allows for the swift production of gorgeous branded festival, event and venue websites. It provides tools for our design team to create fully branded sites quickly and efficiently. It also provides a modern, progressive user interface for customers to manage their event website and ticketing.

Our benefits…

• £35-40k + Pension + Private health and dental
• Profit share – We give 10% of net profit to the team on a quarterly basis
• Work from anywhere: Our office, your home, in a forest, on a beach.
• Flexible hours: We’re a flexible team and your work week can be flexible to match.
• Laptop provided: Everyone on our team is provided with a laptop for continued work from a place of your choice.
• £500 home spend: Sort your screen out, your desk, a delightful keyboard, so you’re kitted out to work from home with all the right vibes
• Opportunities for personal development: From event attendance, new courses, to meditation and mental health support.

The opportunity…

This role is a dream role for a UI designer looking for an exciting opportunity to work in the sector they love. We’re a small, enthusiastic team, growing an agency and product that we adore, for clients we love. The work we do is exciting, very creative and so you’ll get the opportunity to work alongside some of the most innovative and creatively minded businesses on the planet.

Initial Goals…

You’ll sit under our Design lead, Rob and help plan and execute digital projects for our agency clients. We sit in the festival, event and experience-led venue market, so we expect dedication and love for the sector, and a creative mind to come up with new ideas, amazing design and an ability to communicate and present these to clients and internal team members.

What you’ll be doing…

A very varied and exciting role, you’ll be tasked with using your digital skills to work alongside the design team to conceive, produce and deliver well-thought-through UX as well as amazing bleeding edge design. You’ll work closely with the creative and development teams, helping them to bring your ideas to life with animations and movement.

The Skills/Experience we’re after…

We plan to work part remote with weekly in-person meetings, so you’ll have to be comfortable with that for the long term. Our office in the centre of Manchester’s Northern Quarter is always open, with shared desk space.

We’d like you to have

• 3-5 years min UI experience and a good understanding of UX
• Good knowledge working with Figma and Adobe CS or similar
• Brand and Movement design experience
• Ability to think of great ideas and get buy in from clients and team
• An impressive portfolio of design work
• A love of design, creativity and music
• Strong communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Commercially minded
• The ability to understand the technical implications of your design decisions along with experience working with developers to implement them
• Understanding of frontend technologies.

If you are interested in applying for the Mid-weight UI Designer role and joining us then contact me directly at christian@projectsimply.com