Position: Junior Designer for the travel startup
Company: Space Step
Experience required: no_exp
Category: Design
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

**Who is the ideal candidate**
Perfect candidate will be a creative person who is very good with graphic design (as it's something I cannot teach you) and wants to learn UX. You should have a portfolio and knowledge of branding, typography, color theory and other graphic design principles.
The most intense period will be next 9 months, so the candidate should have availability during this time. You will have vacation/sick days, but there won't be an opportunity to spend few months on the university or other activities that might take the focus away from the startup for a long time.

**What's in for you**
- Working in a startup lead by the experienced founder. I was working in various startups more than 10 years as full stack developer, devops, team lead and product manager. You will learn not only UX aspects but I will be happy to expose you(to the extent you want) in planning, researching, analyzing, marketing and other parts of the startup.
- UX mentoring. I was building and leading product teams for more than 6 years, so I'll be able to set you up a learning path that will be aligned both for the startup and you personally. You will be learning UX methods of research(competitor research, surveys/interviews, personas, user flows, etc), analyzing product(sessions, heatmaps, a/b testing), design thinking, how to build design systems(in Figma) and how to work with development team in agile environment.
- Free time for theory. You'll be given time and materials to learn UX best practices that we are going to use.
- Vacation/Sick days.
- If startup succeeds you will be a second employee of the company, which is a huge opportunity in a life. If the startup will fail, you will have a huge amount knowledge and skills that will allow you easily to find any job you want.

**Interview process**
- When applying, please share your portfolio. For selected candidates, there will be two interviews:
1. First one, 30 minutes. We will discuss your portfolio and experience. I will ask you some basic graphic design and UX questions. If you don't know something, say that, this position doesn't require deep and vast knowledge, but we need to see that we can work together.
2. Candidates who will pass first interview, will be invited to a generic one hour meeting when we will discuss the product itself and goals. This meeting should give us idea if we can be a good team.

**Few words about the product**
We are going to build a travel startup - a product called "Diver Planet" that will reshape the current state in scuba diving world. The product initially will be based on two applications:
1. Web platform with a possibility for anyone to find various dive sites, leave reviews, join diving events and team up with other divers
2. IOS and Android apps that will be synced with a web platform, and will provide divers ability to log their dives, manage their equipment, and share their achievements with their friends.
We will talk much more in depth with selected candidates on second interview!