Position: Lead UI/UX designer - USA
Company: Simplify
Category: Design
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

About us
We’re a creative team of marketers, designers, developers, and copywriters, who are focused on solving business problems by making simple, but effective websites & mobile apps.

Our job is to eliminate barriers, misunderstandings, and unawareness between a product
and a consumer. We make their ways to each other simple.

Simplify. Your way to Greatness.

The customer is looking for a Lead UI/UX with good spoken English. Below, we propose to consider detailed requirements and a description of the client's company: client is the fresh, smart and matchmaking startup dedicated to putting fun and romance back into dating, and we've got a lot to talk about!

Technical project description:  

We are growing rapidly, and are now looking to grow our Product Design team. This individual will be an essential team member in helping to define client’s member experience in order to drive growth. This includes having a deep understanding of the client's user experience, considering both its members and matchmakers. This person will help discover user behavior, assess product performance, design web, and mobile applications, talk to users, and validate product prototypes.You will collaborate closely and iteratively with product, engineering and cross-functional teams to turn complex problems into intuitive, helpful experiences. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of product design and development processes. You have experience leading the end to end product lifecycle.You will thrive in an objective-oriented environment that values collectively finding the best outcomes.

Nice-to-have technologies: Mobile experience in two-sided marketplaces in e-commerce, dating apps or gig-economy a plus.

You are: 

- A Strong Design & Systems Thinker: You move seamlessly between strategy and tactics to develop exceptional experiences. 
- An Experienced Product Designer: You have a broad understanding of the craft and deep expertise in interaction design, visual design, or both. 
- Focused on Execution: You have the organizational and analytical skills to effectively manage and prioritize multiple projects.
- Strategic Intuition: You can synthesize external and internal data and team feedback to develop a coherent roadmap for our growing product needs. 
- An Analytical Approach: You can properly evaluate the success or failure of features and use data to guide next steps. 
- A Collaborative Style: You work comfortably across teams and disciplines leveraging their talents, expertise, and insight to achieve shared goals.
- Strong Client Empathy: You can imagine the world as others see it and understand their motivations and needs.
- Exceptional Communication Skills: You have excellent written and oral communication skills to drive the product vision within the organization.
- A Commitment to Quality: You understand that a variety of stakeholders depend on platforms and that maintaining quality is a key feature.

Requirements:

- 5+ years user research and product design experience with proven impact in a leading research/product design role.
- Experience using design software like Sketch, Figma and the Adobe suites 
- Experience working with wireframing/prototyping tools to clearly communicate your ideas to other teams and stakeholders. 
- Experience with mobile-first web responsive design. 
- Must be passionate and willing to help build better products.
- Experience in design, especially with prototyping tools.
- Experience with Design Thinking, Design Sprints, and workshops.
- Portfolio demonstrating prior design work, methodology and deliverables (reports or key findings).

Interview process:
- Internal tech interview 
- Interview with VP of Product

Duration:  12+ months

Вe ready to work in PST time zone (till 8,9pm Ukraine time)