
UIUX Designer
Experience in managing accounts and projects. Comfortable leading and mentoring creative/development teams on large site builds from strategy and concept to deployment, evaluation, and presenting new ideas and concepts, strategies or directional proposals.
You will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from ideation of new features, creation of wireframes of designs, creation of hi-fidelity designs, and ensuring proper implementation of the designs. The UIUX Designer will translate discussions and requirements into designs for web and smart phone application interfaces and will also support the development team during the Agile scrum process to ensure the designs are implemented according to specifications.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ability to take in various stakeholder ideas and feedback and translate into design solutions
- Ability to persuasively communicate design concepts and justify design decisions
- Have a love for crafting beautiful and intuitive user interfaces
- Create designs, icons, and layouts that adhere to established interaction and visual patterns
- Acquire and develop understanding of the customer’s needs, the company’s product(s), and the business goals and initiatives of the company/department
- Create visual specifications of final designs to enable developers to accurately translate to the product
- Acquire and develop skills that can increase value delivered
- Lead projects from idea to prototype to product with team that includes product management, and scrum team
- Collaborate with product management and product development/scrum teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented
- Work with the product team to develop and lead user research and testing, ensuring designs meet users’ needs
- Conduct design review with internal teams, clearly rationalizing and explaining design while also advocating for the users’ needs
- Translate discussions and requirements into leading application designs and layouts
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree or 1 to 3 years’ equivalent experience designing web and mobile applications
- Proven track record designing and releasing successful user experiences for multiple device types and contexts
- Working knowledge and experience with mobile and web interaction design standards and technologies (iOS, Android, Windows 8, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, etc.)
- Experience with Sketch, Figma, Adobe CS, OmniGraffle, Axure, InDesign, Invision, etc.
- Experience as a digital designer, with both web and mobile experience
- Experience working on digital products of various sizes and complexity, both within a team and autonomously
- Demonstrate a good understanding of UX patterns and digital design trends
- Show a good understanding of the design process and an ability to educate others on the role of design within projects
- Experience in digital design practices including conception, ideation, wireframing and prototyping
Expectations:
- Good communication, interpersonal, time management, and personal organization skills
- A positive and enthusiastic approach to technical challenges
- Passion for the user and for creating an extraordinary customer experience
- Attention to detail and a drive for quality and innovation
- Must be able to work productively in a fast-paced development environment
- As we are based in Silicon Valley, we expect you to be available for meetings during Pacific Time
All applicants are asked to send their resume to:
admin@yobi.app
Please include your GitHub profile if you have one.
More than one position may be filled from this job posting.