Position: Middle UI/UX product designer
Company: upSWOT
Category: Design
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

The R&D cycle of a team will include such typical steps like:

- Ideas and concepts – permanent research and analysis, that can come from a change of legislation, a technological breakthrough, or striving for efficiency or cost-saving.
- Designs and modeling – the technical analysis, design, development activities that are needed to resolve the uncertainty, meet the challenge and prepare an MVP to test a hypothesis.
-Testing and validating hypotheses on a market using a variety of tools and techniques.
- Patenting of innovative solutions and ideas in The United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Responsibilities:
- Design and specify user journeys, use cases, and interfaces — using participatory and iterative design methods including, but not limited to, user research and usability testing
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product manager
- Develop UI mockups, wireframes, storyboards, and prototypes through feedback from internal and external stakeholders
- Design and manage UI/UX projects for web applications
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
- Advocate on behalf of the customer’s best interest when it comes to decision for new and updated features and products
- Permanent market research & analysis of competing solutions

Requirements and skills:
- 3+ years of experience as a UI/UX/Product Designer in a product company
- Experience in product (web application) development is a must
- Enterprise-level apps developing experience is a huge advantage
- Attention for details and creativity is a must as well
- Team spirit - the main soft skill you should have
Understanding of:
- BI systems functionality
- UI/UX in BPM systems
- Strong analytical skills in line with an understanding of business management
- Lead designer on a product feature that spanned the entire user experience
- Strong ability to recognize and predict use cases and user interaction, including happy path as well as edge cases, and incorporate them into designs
- Experience in conducting Customer Interviews and prototypes testing
Technical skills:
- Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Sketch
- Proficiency in graphic design, a sensitivity to typography, color, layout, and a general awareness of materials/textures
- Experience in defining design systems that work across a product
- Entrepreneurial approach with a strong sense of product quality
- Portfolio of successfully finished projects is needed
- Advanced English in spoken and written
- Strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
- Test task should be done while interviewing process
- Fintech expirience
- A wide erudition and knowledge of the U.S. micro-small business market

It will be a plus if you:
- At least one industry domain knoweledge for serving American businesses (Accounting, Taxation, CRM, ERP, eCommerce, Banks, Marketing, Logistics)
- Experience with business apps popular for small business: QuickBooks, Ebay, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Zoho CRM, Google Analytics, etc.
- Desire to join a start-up
- Experience with web development, mastering front-end technologies like !Bootstrap! JavaScript, CSS, HTML
- We appreciate the approach of maximum concentration on the quality of the product in a combination of functionality, usability, and design of the future.

Benefits:
- Possibility to grow within a multicultural work environment with a flat structure and direct, informal communication
- Flexible working environment
- Full-time employment
- Remote work
- 4 working days week