UX Designer

Company Description

Meridian is Aotearoa’s largest renewable electricity producer, generating power from 100% renewable sources—wind, water, and sun! Together, our two brands, Meridian and Powershop retail electricity to more than 400,000 homes, businesses and farms across New Zealand. Now that’s a pretty impressive combo!

It’s an exciting time to join our Retail team which has undergone a significant change in how we work to adopt new modern ways of working. Committed to making energy cleaner and cheaper for Aotearoa New Zealand, our Retail structure is made up of a network of empowered teams, united by a shared purpose and clear goals, equipped with the skills and capabilities to deliver value to customers end to end.

Mō te tūranga | What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Experience Practice Lead, the UX Designer works in a cross-functional squad, ensuring that, based on insight, we’re delivering best-in-class experiences for new and existing customers from a UX, visual and interaction design perspective.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Iteratively designing highly engaging digital products and experiences, from wireframes and prototypes, to fully tailored interface design
• Working cohesively within a cross functional team of specialists ensuring delivery of cohesive end-to-end experiences
• Enabling our brands to be brought to life in new and engaging ways which drive depth of emotional engagement and strong commercial performance
• Ensuring designs are launched and maintained with a clear focus on high-quality outcomes for customers and our business
• Proactively spotting opportunities to enhance outcomes for users and think about the conceptual and holistic aesthetics of our digital platforms

What we can offer you!

We Value Work/life Balance, So Our WFH And Flexible Work Options (where Possible) Make Things Easier For You And Your Whānau. We Also Offer

• An attractive and competitive salary package that’s reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from several partnerships
• Southern Cross Healthcare - Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind
• Enhanced leave provisions: three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave
• Life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won’t need!)
• Enhanced KiwiSaver contributions
• Access to the Meridian employee share scheme
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!
• Award winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it
• Employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts
• a one-off $400 payment to support your work from home set-up (if needed)

Ngā pukenga kei a koe mō tenei tūranga | What you’ll bring

We are looking for a creative designer who brings their visual design expertise and proficiency with tools like Figma to the table. Your strong problem-solving skills, paired with commercial acumen, will help you tackle challenges head-on. Your natural curiosity drives you to deliver cohesive experiences, and your proactive nature ensures you take ownership and deliver results. As a team player with excellent communication skills, you're open to new ideas and ways of doing things, making you a perfect fit for our dynamic team!

He aha koe i hono mai ai ki a mātou? | Why join us?

At Meridian, we value all people. We embrace different ways of thinking, living and working, because we believe diversity benefits us all. It makes our capabilities even stronger. We encourage all our people to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work and we’re proud to have a diverse and inclusive workplace. So, no matter who you are, you’ll find it a great place to work.

We value and live by three ‘How to Be’s’: ‘be gutsy’, working together by ‘being in the waka’ and doing the right thing by ‘being a good human’. We work hard and value the importance of connection and fun, both in person and virtually!

Sustainability sits firmly in our DNA both socially and environmentally. We proudly support KidsCan and the Kākāpō Recovery and work side-by-side with our generation communities to empower and support projects where needed.

Tono mai ināianei tonu | Apply now

We’re not necessarily looking for someone who ticks all the boxes, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every requirement in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply!

To view the full Position Description please click here. If applying through Seek, please email [email protected] for the full position description.

If you have any general enquiries, please email [email protected] and one of our team will get back to you. Please get in touch if there are any parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz/careers), we’re more than happy to help.

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