Hermès UX/UI Designer

About Hermès

This prestigious fashion house, renowned for its timeless elegance and innovative designs, is a part of a leading global luxury conglomerate. The brand is committed to excellence and offers a dynamic environment where creativity and business acumen are equally valued.

Role & Responsibilities

• Conduct user research, workshops, and stakeholder analysis to gather, validate, and translate business requirements into concrete user journeys, wireframes, and functional specifications
• Define personas, user journeys, information architecture, flow diagrams, and key screen specifications to secure design governance before development
• Facilitate design workshops and restitution sessions with business stakeholders to prioritize needs and transform broad requirements into actionable, comprehensible user experiences
• Integrate accessibility, sustainable design principles, responsiveness, and consistency with company IT standards from the earliest design phases
• Design wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and detailed UI specifications to validate concepts before development and ensure clear developer handoff
• Produce responsive interfaces across desktop, tablet, and mobile formats, tailored to field operations, artisanal work, retail environments, and internal support functions
• Create clear, ergonomic, and restrained screen designs optimized for Power Apps, SharePoint, SPFx/React, Microsoft 365, and internal web applications
• Document functional and graphical specifications detailing expected behaviors, screen states, components, display rules, error messaging, and microcopy
• Support development teams during implementation to ensure accurate translation of designs into operational interfaces, maintaining pragmatic and iterative approaches
• Contribute to the development, expansion, and dissemination of the Small Apps Design System by capitalizing on reusable components, patterns, best practices, templates, and guidance
• Harmonize interfaces across projects—particularly SharePoint and Power Platform applications—to strengthen visual consistency, maintainability, and perceived quality
• Document design decisions and contribute to team maturity through design guides, checklists, Figma templates, accessibility principles, UX writing guidelines, and best practices
• Collaborate closely with project managers, developers, architects, cybersecurity teams, business stakeholders, and end-users in short cycles of conception, validation, development, and refinement
• Participate in user acceptance testing, feedback collection, and continuous improvement phases to evolve applications and foster user adoption
• Monitor UX/UI practices, low-code/no-code usage patterns, evolving design tools, and emerging technologies relevant to the team's work

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Bac+5) in UX/UI Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, or equivalent discipline
• Minimum 2 years of professional UX/UI design experience, ideally on business applications, internal tools, collaborative platforms, or B2B/B2E environments
• Expert proficiency with Figma: components, auto-layout, variants, prototyping, design tokens, shared libraries, and collaborative file management
• Solid command of UX research methodologies: user interviews, workshops, personas, journey mapping, usage mapping, prioritization, user testing, and pain-point analysis
• Strong ability to design simple, responsive, accessible interfaces suited to internal business applications, intranet portals, and collaborative tools
• Capacity to produce immediately actionable deliverables: wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity mockups, UI specifications, guidelines, and presentation materials
• Good foundational knowledge of ergonomic principles, digital accessibility standards, and eco-design
• Understanding of front-end development constraints and Microsoft 365 environments—particularly SharePoint, Power Platform, SPFx/React, and Fluent UI—with ability to communicate effectively with developers
• Proficiency with complementary graphic design tools (Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, Photoshop, or equivalents) for ad-hoc production of icons, visuals, and project-specific identity elements
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with diverse business teams, listen actively, clarify needs, rephrase requirements, and translate them into tangible, understandable journeys
• Strong pragmatism: capacity to design efficiently, test, iterate, and make trade-offs between UX ambition, technical constraints, timelines, and long-term maintainability
• Autonomy, rigor, analytical thinking, and ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a dynamic project environment
• Creative sensibility, commitment to quality, attention to detail, and appreciation for simple, purposeful, and refined interfaces
• Aptitude for documenting, sharing, and building institutional knowledge to elevate team UX/UI maturity over time
• Fluent English (written and spoken) in an international working context

Skills

Experience

Minimum 2 years of professional UX/UI design experience, preferably gained in business applications, internal tools, collaborative platforms, or B2B/B2E environments. Candidates should demonstrate proven proficiency with Figma and a portfolio showcasing UX/UI design work on complex, user-centered projects.

Education

Advanced degree (Bac+5 / Master's equivalent) in UX/UI Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, Ergonomics, Human-Computer Interaction, or related discipline.

Workplace

Culture

The company fosters a collaborative and innovative culture, encouraging employees to push the boundaries of creativity while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.