About the Role

As UX/UI Designer, your primary responsibility will be to design simple, elegant user-experiences, interfaces, products & services that our customers love & want to us. As a contributing member of the Discovery & Design Team, you are responsible for leading and participating in the research, discovery, clear definition and prioritization of our end-users’ needs & challenges; and the design, prototyping and validation of simple, elegant solutions that solve these problems.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as a key advocate for world-class user experience.


• Relationship building and maintenance with target end-users.


• Relationship building and maintenance with product stakeholders, engineering team members, other discovery team members.


• Relating and working with all these teams to ensure users’ needs & challenges are accurately captured; problems are articulated clearly; simple, elegant solutions are created & validated; final (engineered) products are 100% in sync with validated solutions; and that each release produces products and feature our customers absolutely love and want to use.


• The candidate must be a natural collaborator and a great communicator, able to develop and present design ideas in a large team environment. She or he will work closely with cross-functional teams such as Engineering, QA, Business, and Senior Management. Prior experience working within a technical environment is a key requirement. Candidates should possess exceptional visual and user interface design skills, as well as user-centered design principles.


• The applicant must have an affinity for consistency, color use, typography, and a keen eye for subtle details. While exercising a good eye for aesthetics, candidates must be able to grasp and distill highly complex issues and translate them into clean, focused, understandable solutions. Interest in emerging technologies in web, mobile, and other devices is required.

Qualifications:

• An exceptional portfolio showcasing user experience and visual design work for web, mobile, and desktop apps.


• 4+ years’ work experience creating world-class user interfaces & experiences in web, mobile and desktop app experiences.


• Demonstrated experience and passion running Discovery & Solution Validation Exercises with target users including creating UX research plans; problem discovery interviews & workshops; prototype and usability testing; deploying & analyzing data from feedback systems, UX/UI regression analysis & testing, etc.


• A deep passion & appreciation for finding simple solutions to complex problems.


• Ability to articulate design rationale and share insight into designed solutions.


• Exceptional talent in articulating your work and presenting your ideas (Excellent written, oral and presentation skills). Ability to present work to large groups and executives.


• Excellent listening skills & a very high degree of empathy.


• Exceptional attention to detail.


• Demonstrated proficiency in documenting interaction details, visual design specifications and QA of the implemented product.


• Enthusiasm and history working in an iterative design process; motivated by group critique.


• Excellent collaborator with excellent interpersonal skills (a ‘people-person’).


• Exceptional rapid-prototyping skills.


• Highly professional, with the ability to deliver solid work on tight schedules.


• Prior experience working within and contributing to a design system.


• Fluency in cutting-edge design principles, tools, systems and methodologies including (but not limited to):
  
  
  
  • Figma, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator et al.), Sketch, Miro.
  
  
  • User Experience Research
  
  
  • User Interface Design
  
  
  • Usability Testing
  
  
  • Applied Psychology in Design
  
  
  • Product Design