Sample - UI Design Role — Slide UX | The User Experience Design Consultancy

Sample Job Description:
User Interface Designer

Design interfaces steeped in strategy and insight at our data-informed design firm.

Looking to put your hard-earned UI design skills to work in a growth-oriented creative environment, and enjoy a great lifestyle along the way?

We're Slide UX, an award-winning, client-focused, family-owned, fully-remote User Experience design consultancy. Our team of 19 full-time designers and researchers work with a wide range of clients throughout the US and beyond to help them create products and interfaces that users enjoy.

We're seeking an organized, reliable, and detail-oriented designer with 5-7 years of experience.

The right candidate is fast in Sketch or Figma, and keeps an eye on how to make the design process more effective. In this role, you’ll work closely with our principal consultants, project leads, and a variety of clients to create products and websites that exceed user expectations. You recognize that good development outcomes depend on good communication, and you want to make sure the intent represented in your designs is clear to those who will work from them. And you seek exposure to strategy, research, and analytics. No stranger to client communication, you want to understand the challenge before designing for it.

Our assignments span product and marketing, across a wide range of company sizes and industries. Our clients are product teams, marketing teams, and executives. We've had seven years of substantial growth, but we value sustainability over size. We’ve laid the groundwork to let the data guide us in the future. But we need you to help us wrangle it!

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with clients and fellow Sliders to understand the goals and requirements for UI design projects

  • Produce original UI designs and prototypes in Sketch or Figma

  • Generate other strategy deliverables such as flow diagrams, personas, slides, and more

  • Take part in user research to generate ideas and evaluate effectiveness

  • Partner with third-party, partner, and client-side development teams to ensure the intent of designs is clear

Expectations

  • Open personality that can break through the virtual barrier with teammates you don’t see IRL often

  • Ability to learn and adapt quickly, master established processes, and maintain confidentiality

  • Precise, organized, reliable, and detail-oriented

  • Curious - digging into the industry’s latest trends and breakthroughs to find better ways to do things

  • Confident, professional, and helpful in communication

  • Positive, results-oriented attitude

  • Self-starter who can balance multiple projects and competing priorities in a fast-paced team environment

  • Happy to work from home for the long term, with reliable internet and Slide-provided equipment; and willing to travel if needed (estimated at less that 10% of role)

Requirements

  • Minimum of 5-7 years in UI design

  • Very comfortable in Sketch or Figma

  • Comfortable explaining ideas and rationale

Bonus points for

  • Interest in contract-to-hire for the first 12 weeks

  • UX design

  • Product design experience

  • Content strategy experience

  • User research experience

Benefits
As a full-time member of the remote Slider team, you can expect a whole host of perks.

  • Remote since our beginning, we’ve invested in the structure, culture and bonding elements that are required to make remote work, long-term.

  • You’ll stay refreshed with 120 hrs/yr in PTO and early out before every 3-day weekend. We have 10 official company holidays, and we close between Christmas and New Year’s.

  • We’re a small company with big-company insurance. See our health, dental, vision, disability, and other plans here. Our 401k plan includes a Roth option, and an automatic 3% employer contribution.

About Slide UX
When we opened our doors in 2012, UX was not yet a buzz word. Our goal then, and our goal now, is to design digital experiences that are useful, usable, good-looking, and optimized. We huddle our designers, researchers, and strategists on each project and deliver what we're pleased to read is oftentimes above and beyond our clients' expectations.

Apply
If you're ready to use your UI design chops to truly help a team that really cares, we just might be a perfect match. Please send your cover letter, resume, and portfolio to careers@slideux.com by Wed, Jun 24, 2020.