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Senior UI Designer at Thinkmill

Help us design hyper-functional products and Design Systems, for web and mobile applications.

Key facts

  • Full-time
  • Remote-first (with on-site available in Sydney)
  • Australia & New Zealand residents

About Thinkmill

  • We’re an internationally recognised consultancy that designs and builds software and platforms with long-term clients and partners, including Atlassian, Reckon, Enlitic, Vocal, and more.
  • Our team works across a wide range of domains including accounting software, medical AI, online publishing, IoT, and connected products.
  • We’re an engineering-led company, with extensive experience developing Design System and Front-end architectures.
  • Our model is not typical: we partner with companies both locally and internationally to augment, or become, their design and technology team. This means we get the best of both worlds: the depth of long-term product development usually restricted to single-product companies, as well as the diversity of multi-client agencies.
  • We’re serious about open source with contributions including Keystone, Keystatic, Emotion, and react-select.
  • We organise popular meet-ups and conferences, including React Sydney, SydJS, and ReactConfAU.
  • We’ve been featured in AFR’s Fast100 companies in 2018, 2019, 2021.
  • We work in the open by sharing our approaches. You can read more about the Thinkmill Method here.

About the role

Thinkmill is growing and we are looking to add another senior full-time designer to the team to help take on more (and more ambitious) projects, as well as to shape our growing design team.

Here are a few recent projects you might have worked on if you were already part of the team:

…and here’s a few things you might work on soon after you join:

  • Partnering with Thinkmill’s renowned front-end engineers to architect a new Design System, including token architecture, core components and patterns (eg. filtering, navigation, bulk operations, etc).
  • Helping to implement the UX design process of new (highly functional) web and mobile apps.
  • Collaborating with a tight-knit design team working on complex application interfaces.
  • Designing an approach to theming in a Design System that relies on colour functions and palette resolvers, rather than endless definition of component tokens.

You’d also contribute directly to the strategy and creative phase of new projects, helping us with some of the challenges we face when developing products, like:

  • Interviewing users to understand their mental models, behaviours, wants, and needs.
  • Identifying product pain points, and what we can do differently to deliver better experiences.
  • Helping decide what mix of features and/or capabilities should (or shouldn’t) be in scope of an initial SLC release of a given product or app.

Day to day, the job involves…

  • Collaborating with other designers and stream leaders on design delivery, working in long-term product streams.
  • Working closely with engineers to ship new products and features, or iterate on existing ones, and the design system team to use and/or contribute to the design system that underpins everything.
  • Working with client principals to plan and deliver work. This is a client-facing role so good consulting skills are a requirement.

About you

We’re looking for someone with senior-level user interface and visual design skills who sweats the details and cares deeply about quality. That means…

  • You’re a strong communicator, and you can get your ideas across clearly and persuasively in writing. We’re a fully remote team, so async written communication is very important.
  • You’re prolific at designing high-quality, well-organised UIs and patterns that balance end-user goals (what’s the best possible thing this could be?), with real-world constraints like time, budget, and feasibility (what’s the best thing this could be within the constraints?).
  • You’re well versed in Figma (tokens, modes, component creation, prototyping), Whimsical, and Miro.
  • You’re comfortable operating autonomously, and are able to unblock yourself when needed.
  • You have experience working effectively within or alongside software development teams, and are a positive and supportive member of the team (no wannabe Steve Jobs’, please).
  • You possess a keen interest in the gritty, grimy details of usability and interfaces, and how software is made.
  • You’re familiar with how front-end development happens (that is, how software interfaces are made, their trade-offs and compromises) and you use this familiarity to inform your design decisions.
  • You have experience in a consulting or agency context and/or experience working directly with key stakeholders.
  • Most importantly, you just love to make stuff.

Pay & Benefits

This is a remote-first, full-time (40 hour per week) position, open to anyone in a time zone between UTC+8 to UTC+13.

The salary range for this role is AUD $140,000 to $160,000 plus Super.

A bunch of additional benefits like parental leave, birthday leave, annual training budget, flexible working hours, and more, are also included.

We will provide you with the equipment you need to do your best work, including a computer, external display, office chair, etc.

We're an Australian company. The position is open to Australian and New Zealand residents, or those with a valid working permit/visa.

How to apply

To apply, write something specifically for this position that tells us why we’re a great fit for each other. Please showcase 1 or 2 projects you’ve worked on recently and tell us what you think we should know about them. Highlight your specific contribution or role – we’re keen to see it and hear the story. Please also include your experience to date.

We understand that not everyone has the same amount of time to dedicate to their application  so don’t feel like you need to spend 10 hours on it to stand out. As long as you sound like someone who could be a great fit when we're actually working together day-to-day with the same time constraints, we really want to meet you.

We’re aiming for this new team member to start asap.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Send an email with the above to work@thinkmill.com.au (no recruiters for this one, sorry).