Digital Designer

Kia ora,

After recently being voted as New Zealand's most attractive employer, Air New Zealand is continually capturing the world's attention for its great culture, outstanding customer service and innovations that are truly cutting edge.

The Design chapter are recruiting for a Digital Designer (Product Designer - internal title) to create useful, functional, and impactful digital experiences. You’ll tackle interaction design challenges, and work on new ideas that will transform how people experience our product, crafting digital experiences for a global audience. 

The role you will play:  

• Iteratively design functional and beautiful digital products – from sketches, wireframes and prototypes, to high-fidelity interface design. 
• Partner with our team of design specialists, integrating digital product into end-to-end customer experiences. 
• Create through collaboration, UX/UI design best-practice, and storytelling. 
• Enable the Air New Zealand brand, bringing our design language to life, engaging a variety of audiences in meaningful and fun ways. 
• Collaborate with Developers to ensure your designs are shipped with high-quality. 
• Contribute to our design system – Unison – helping our design and development teams work together at Air New Zealand. 

Key skills and experience required:   

• University degree in design is essential 
• Minimum 3+ years design experience
• Core UX design skills in interaction design
• Ability to craft products that are aesthetically pleasing as well as functional and intuitive
• Proficiency with design tools; we use Figma and Miro 
• An understanding of accessibility and usability best-practices
• Solid problem-solving skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to communicate your design work clearly
• Presentation skills that can help influence outcomes. 

To be considered for this opportunity, apply online with a CV and portfolio.  

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."