We are looking for an experienced, motivated UI/UX Designer, with a keen eye for detail, to join our team! As an UI-UX Designer, you will be responsible for delivering the best online user experience, which makes your role extremely important for our success and ensuring customer satisfaction and loyalty.
The Role is
- Full time - we expect people to put in 40 hrs a week or more
- Position is remote
- No agencies
- Salary Range: Highly competitive depending on skills, experience, education, culture fit, and leadership abilities etc.
The ideal candidate will be naturally creative and imaginative with the technical ability to translate complex information into an engaging visual solution that is both appealing and intuitive for users. The UI/UX Designer will be expected to easily function both independently and collaboratively, bringing fresh thinking, an open mind and a strong work ethic to the position.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate a solid understanding of UI/UX best practices and the unique constraints and idioms of complex, data-intensive enterprise application design
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Creating sketches, wireframes, and designs based on a solid understanding of business requirements, UI patterns, and visual design principles
- Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs and widgets
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how design functions
- Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
- Organize complex user work flows into simpler ones across the entire product life-cycle and multiple product launches
- Facilitating workshops and exercises to assist with idea generation and decision-making
- Mapping out, visualizing and testing application flow to identify gaps and ensure consistency
- Collaborating with developers to answer questions and build a design system
- Developing, designing and establishing a standard set of UI patterns
- Conducting user research and testing and conduct layout adjustments based on feedback
Requirements
- 3+ years of proven experience as a UI/UX Designer
- Knowledge of wireframe tools (e.g. Adobe XD &Balsamiq)
- Excellent written and oral communications skills and the ability to collaborate and articulate ideas effectively in a team environment
- Bachelor Degree in UI/UX Design, Computer Design, Web Design, Graphic Design or related field
- Proficient in Adobe CC (we use Adobe XD for UI design &prototyping, Illustrator &Photoshop for assets creation)
Plusses
- Previous experience working with a startup or smaller company, experience doing remote work
- Bioinformatics knowledge
- Strong leadership, time management, and problem solving skills
- Self-motivated with the ability to work under strict deadlines
- Team player with solid interpersonal skills
- Strong ability to present, synthesize and influence change