UX Designer

Company Description

Perry Street Software is Jack’d and SCRUFF. We are two of the world’s largest gay, bi, trans and queer social dating apps on iOS and Android. Our brands reach more than 20 million members worldwide so members can connect, meet and express themselves on a platform that prioritizes privacy, security and community.

Perry Street employees receive the best perks out there – great benefits including a 401k plan with employer match, comprehensive healthcare coverage, paid parental leave, fully remote options and a flexible vacation policy.

Job Description

What you’ll do:

Utilize UX research methods such as usability testing, surveys, and customer interviews to assess the user experience and design
Facilitate product visioning for SCRUFF and Jack’d by usability testing, surveys, and customer interviews, sketching, and prototyping experiences for the apps
Identify user and design problems and devise elegant solutions
Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences across a wide range of devices and interfaces
Make thoughtful and strategic design decisions that realize broad, conceptual ideas for our 25 million users worldwide
Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate your design rationale
Partner with engineering to ensure that our implementation and user experience is high-quality and performant.
Contribute to building a quantitative and data-based decision-making culture
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
Ask questions, take risks and champion new ideas

Qualifications

Who you are:

5+ years in a UX design role
An exceptional portfolio showing smart, thoughtful design work through wireframes, sketches, and user flows
Demonstrated experience designing mobile consumer software. This includes not only shipping prototypes, but also experience iterating on existing products in versions 2, 3 and beyond
Experience developing or contributing to a design system, such as a HIG, for a given app or company
Experience using modern UX/UI design tools such as Figma, Principle, InVision, and/or Sketch
Experience with Adobe tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects.
Extensive experience in using UX/UI design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile design
A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model (e.g. remote developers), to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism
Be passionate about all things UX/UI and other areas of design and innovation
Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies

Additional information

Perry Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, disability, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, citizenship, age, military or veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.