UI/ UX Specialist
UI/UX Designer
We are a high growth startup backed by one of America’s top furniture retailers. The UI/UX Designer shapes unique, user-centric solutions and experiences. You have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces. You are a dynamic team player, creative thinker who has fun tackling complex problems at scale, and a strong relationship builder who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
● Create innovative digital design solutions and UI systems
● Create design/interaction guidelines and libraries that can be applied across iOS, Android and web solutions
● Improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate the interaction ideas using any of these methods
● Produce design documentation and create expected deliverables: visual guides and style, visual design concepts, wireframes, visual mock-ups, clickable prototypes, interface guidelines
● Constantly monitor top design trends and user-interface best practices to enrich the user-interface of a product or a solution
● Collaborate with other designers within the team or the chapter to solve design challenges and ensure a level of design consistency and coherence across the digital channel
● Passion and understanding of D2C affiliate platform, including best practices for mobile, web and dashboard design
Qualifications
Domain Expertise
● Experience in creating prototypes from and wireframe tools, low and high-fidelity clickable simulations
● Good understanding of iOS and Android design systems
● Strong experience using tools such as Sketch and/or Figma, InVision and/or Marvel, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.
● Experience with different platforms supports: Web (Desktop + Mobile), Native (Mobile + Tablet)
● Experience with planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing and rapid prototyping
● Nice to have: Deep understanding of furniture industry
● Nice to have: Marketing aggregator or affiliate platform marketplace experience
Individual Skills
● Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing
● Creative ideas with problem solving mindset
● Ability to work effectively in a team setting incl. synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
● Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines
Leadership & Behaviors
● Passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
● Strong sense of ownership of solution and not afraid to speak up to ensure the user angle is heard by the Product Owner
● Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing
The company is a high growth consumer tech start up that is addressing fundamental challenges in the $200B US furniture space. The company is a B2B and B2C digital aggregator with a simple mission: To connect furniture customers with the products they desire. For consumers, we make it easy to find the right furniture by enhancing search and streamlining their end-to-end customer experience. For retail partners, we deliver a digital platform allowing them to expand their reach with a high-intent furniture audience. The site experience and discovery tools will differentiate us. The site design and content will drive brand recognition and loyalty allowing us to capitalize on this market.
We are backed by a top-5 furniture retailer in the US. The business is unique in that it will operate with the agility and innovation of a startup, yet with the robust resources and industry knowledge set of an established brand.
The company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws
Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.
