UI/UX Designer

Essential Skills:

* Aligns with our values: Excellence, Integrity, Professionalism, People Success, Customer Success, Fun, Innovation and Diversity
* Strong communication skills
* Strong problem solving and analytical skills
* Excellent problem-solving ability
* Would like to work as part of a self-organizing Scrum team in a scaled agile framework
* Must be a self-starter and loves to collaborate with the team and client

Job Summary

We seek a skilled designer to craft attractive and functional interfaces for our company. Your role involves a deep understanding of users, business needs, and technical constraints. This includes conducting user research, interviews, and surveys to create sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes.

Responsibilities

* Responsible for understanding project briefs and converting that into appealing user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces, and for internal review and brainstorming.
* Capable of generating user personas and user scenarios.
* Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
* Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
* Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
* Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
* Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to seek deeper appreciation of our problem/goals through usability tests.
* Develop understanding of the end users of the web application or mobile application through secondary and primary research (user interviews, traffic data).
* Keep abreast of new technology trends that may significantly affect the operations of the Client.
* Assist in pre-sales, post-sales and product development to win and maintain clients
* Share knowledge and best practices with Client and Umpisa Team.

Requirements

* 2-4 years of UI/UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments and with graphic design capabilities
* Expertise in standard UX software such as Figma, Sketch, OmniGraffle, Axure, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, and the like is a must. Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus
* Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision
* Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
* A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
* Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients
* A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking
* Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
* Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
* Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design
* Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies

Benefits

* HMO
* 13th-month pay
* Training benefits
* Work from home
* Paid time off

NOTE: The list of qualifications is a guide. Best case if the candidate possesses ALL the required/desired criteria, but then again this is a GUIDE. If you think you can do the task and would be a great fit with us, send your professional profile to [email removed]. We accept applicants wherever you are in the Philippines.