If you thrive in a small team environment and love being involved in creating real products that will have an impact on real users, this is the job for you.
As a designer, you’ll be asked to aid creatives in existing projects and provide new and fresh approaches to design problems, helping projects move forward. You’ll ensure your projects run smoothly, have great interpersonal skills and confidence handling and delivering client-facing work. You’ll take an active role communicating and delivering great results.
Responsibilities:
Work on existing web and native app products, maintaining a superb level of design
Creating beautiful work of the highest standards based on client requirements
Work with teams to understand business strategies and create user stories to reflect them
Provide high-level wireframes and be able to explain your reasoning while incorporating client and team’s feedback
Create beautiful mockups and continue to deliver great design work from concept to delivery
Be able to adhere to specified brand guidelines
Accurate, precise planning in a fast-paced environment
Management of design schedules and tasks
Effectively communicate road blocks and breakthroughs to the team to manage client expectations
Occasionally aid junior team members in their tasks to ensure high quality
Liaise with the Project Management and the Engineering teams to ensure deadlines are met
In 1 Month, you’ll:
Start building a rapport with the project team and broader design team
Pair with other designers to understand their projects, and the way of setting up environments
Shadow the CDO or a fellow Senior Designer in client meetings
Own small tasks in the project(s) you’ll be working on
Learn about the Codelitt Design processes
Have 1-1 pairing sessions with CDO
In 3 Months, you’ll:
Lead design meetings and interactions with the client, totally independent or accompanied by (but not second to) the CDO or another senior designer
Build trust with the client based off on your own skills
Take more ownership of your project(s), working on bigger tasks
Be comfortable being more independent and not reliant on others to make design decisions and move projects along
Have 1-1 pairing sessions with other designers
Actively help shape the Design Team’s processes
Help with content creation
In 6+ Months, you’ll:
Own your tasks, and team and client meetings fully
Actively participate in DS&T
Actively help shape the Design Team’s processes
Mentor designers on a 1-1 basis, or via knowledge sharing
Requirements
+6 years proven work experience in web product design: web applications, native apps, etc.
Portfolio of completed design projects
Excellent knowledge of Adobe Suite, Sketch App, Invision and Figma
Strong aesthetic skills with the ability to combine various colors, fonts and layouts
Incredible attention to detail
Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with a team
Experience presenting to creatives, strategists and clients from concept to delivery
Superb knowledge of product design processes and web design
Able to quickly adapt and learn new project workflows
Self starter, but able to follow directions
Experience in Lean Methodology
Excellent organizational skills
Excellent phone manner
Excellent written and oral English language skills
Able to lead more than one project at once
Bonus:
Experience working remotely
Experience using online management tools (Jira, Trello, Miro, etc.)
Experience writing user stories
Experience in brand design
Experience in content creation (blog posts etc)
Experience mentoring other designers
Benefits
Competitive salary ($60,000 - $70,000)
Your birthday off
2 weeks of vacation per year and flexible sick leave
Healthcare benefits, including dental and vision
Your local public holidays off
Maternity and paternity benefits
The chance to work with some of the most prestigious clients in the world
Learn from the best and brightest in product development, including design, engineering, and more
The flexibility to work anywhere you prefer and feel most productive
Numerous team building events throughout the year
Note: We are not interested in recruiters or agencies at this time. Thanks!
