UI Designer

Tesco Bengaluru

We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.

At Tesco Business Solutions, we have a mission to simplify, scale & partner to serve our customers, colleagues and suppliers through a best-in-class intelligent Business Services model. We do this by building a world class business services model by executing services model framework right at the heart of everything we do for our worldwide customers. The key objective is to implement and execute service model across all our functions and markets consistently. The ethos of business services is to free-up our colleagues from a regular manual operational work. We use cognitive technology to augment our key decision making. We also built a Continuous Improvement (CI) culture across functions to drive bottom-up business efficiencies by optimising processes. Business services colleagues need to act as a business partner with our group stakeholders to build a collaborative partnership driving continuous improvement across markets and functions to lead the best customer experience by serving our shoppers a little better every day.

At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone's Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.

Hiring manager: Kaushal Mishra
Last date of application: 10th Feb 2025

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UI Designer Mid – Design System:
We’re looking for a passionate; skilled; and ambitious Mid UI Designer to join our Design System team.
As a Mid UI Designer at the UK’s largest supermarket; you’ll be working on a complex; sophisticated design system that supports and works hand in hand with our product design teams. You’ll discover new opportunities; creating intuitive and effective solutions that improve every stage of our user’s design workflow from Figma to engineering handover. You’ll weigh business goals with our colleagues’ expectations; creating components and Figma library solutions that exceed both. Our Digital Design System is central to our design vision at Tesco; so you’ll need experience working on one. You’ll know how to fail fast; get back up; and try again.
Audiences don't get bigger or more diverse than this. So; you’ll really need to know your onions. That includes a big appetite for the latest design and engineering technology; AI; prototyping and testing; and data and analytics. Collaboration mixed with experience; enthusiasm and insight is the recipe for successful design. You’ll be working with some of the finest UX and UI designers; researchers; UX writers; service designers; data and analytics experts; product managers and developers.
Here’s a taste of what you can expect:
You’ll join a business that values your expertise; experience; and insight. That nurtures your personal and career growth; with opportunities for every stage of your journey. You’ll be a crucial part of a talented team full of people from all backgrounds that share your drive and ambition. You'll enjoy a hybrid role that creates the perfect work/life balance; helping you be who you are both professionally and personally. And a benefits package that’s more than competitive.

About the role:
- Collaborate with your team members to design and maintain our platform libraries using variants; tokens; and other organizing and scaling principles resulting in flexible; reusable components for our platform libraries that are suitable for both designers to use in Figma and be technically feasible for our engineers.
- Support processes to ensure the continued relevance and best user experience of the design system; including research and testing its effectiveness.
- Work hand in hand with the product teams to bring the design system to life inside all UI projects and help evolve our Digital Design System based on user needs.
- Work with product teams to identify opportunities for simplifying designs across products across the different business areas to keep our design system lean and efficient.
- Deliver valuable; high-quality; and consistent work without sacrificing speed.
- Accurately estimate the timing and effort required to do your work.
- Contribute to end user documentation describing the standards and best practices of our component library as a reference for our users.
- Create and maintain engineering handover documentation. Work closely with engineering teams to understand feasibility of design ideas and ensure review of design implementation at key stages of the development cycle.
- Be the voice of the Digital Design System (DDS) for designers in other teams; helping them use the system to produce brilliant work.
- Use Figma and Engineering analytics to help inform your work.
- Promote inclusive design practices and deliver accessible (AA)designs and components.
- Contribute to the end-to-end UI process activities relevant to the design system workflow.
- Collaborate with different disciplines inside product teams; working closely with UX & UI designers; researchers; UX writers; engineers; product managers; data analysts; and business stakeholders to explore; use; test and contribute to the design system.
- Champion human-centred design inside and outside of your team.
- Know how to validate your designs via A/B testing; unmoderated; usability testing; etc.
- Help to facilitate workshops; run appropriate conceptualisation and participatory design sessions.
- Help other disciplines understand the value the design system can bring to a project to build the best products.
- Continuously seek to improve design processes inside and outside of your team to gain efficiency; remove obstacles; and simplify workflows.
- Provide feedback to other designers to help strengthen your team and Tesco as a whole.
- Help your teammates build expertise; strong decision-making skills; and empathy for our users.
- Work with the Design Manager to cultivate a positive; supportive; and inclusive team culture.

 

- 3-5 years UI design experience.
- A positive; constructive can-do attitude.
- Self-motivated and good organisational and time-management skills
- A good ability to simplify the complex.
- You bring a systematic design approach to your work
- A strong; well-curated portfolio demonstrating some experience working on a design system.
- A passion for the latest design; AI; and engineering technology
- The strong level of proficiency with the latest versions of Figma.
- Good understanding of delivering latest WCAG compliant designs.
- Ability to constructively critique design.
- The ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.
- An awareness of existing design systems such as Material design; and Fluent Design & an obsession with digital trends and design
- Experience collaborating closely with multiple disciplines; including product and engineering.
- Proactively share and communicate design expertise and knowledge with your peers and other teams.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills; and the ability to present to all levels of seniority within the organisation.
- A good understanding of the end-to-end iterative design double diamond process.
- Proficiency with current industry design and collaboration tools such Miro etc.
- Strong visual & interaction design sensibility
- Exceptional attention to detail; and a passion for building quality products
- A good knowledge of the latest design and prototyping tools and technologies.
- Passion for solving problems while balancing all facets of a user experience.
It’s an advantage if you also have:
- Grad or Master from Design School is a is a strong advantage
- Some engineering background is a strong advantage.
- Previous experience in the retail sector.
- Experience in a range of high-profile design projects in a customer & business facing environment.