At Phunware, we’re obsessed with creating category-defining mobile experiences for the world’s most respected brands. From designing and building the perfect app, to launching it in the wild and building an audience to engage and monetize with meaningfully, we’ve got everything Fortune 5000 businesses need for total mobile app lifecycle management. We’re growing fast (and have the awards to prove it), so we’re looking for the best and brightest to help us pioneer what’s next in this exciting space between the physical and virtual worlds.

Job Summary:

The UX/UI Web Designer will be an integral of our Product Design team, focusing on driving the user experience of our web portal. She / he will work closely with the Development team and Product leaders to design, iterate and evolve our portal user interface, with a focus on offering an intuitive, engaging user experience with beautiful yet functional visual design.

Our web portal allows our customers to manage their end-to-end mobile application experiences, and provides a broad range of functionality and services, targeting varied personas and use cases.

The ideal candidate will have a comprehensive portfolio of various works with an emphasis on user experience, human interaction, and visual design for web. She / he will be a problem solver who thrives in a fast paced environment, enjoys collaboration and takes ownership of the work they are creating.

Responsibilities:

• Design well thought out, intuitive experiences that are empathic to users, streamline complex tasks and reinforce a cohesive product strategy
• Develop and maintain end-to-end design documentation for product initiatives (including site maps, task analysis, persona mapping, user flows, storyboards, content mapping, prototypes, and visually designed screens)
• Create and maintain a design system or GUIs for the web portal and deliver visually designed screens that are consistent and cohesive with this system.
• Create and evolve user journeys and personas to drive UI/UX.
• Identify, test, and analyze hypotheses and design challenges, through user testing, and work with Product/Engineering teams to implement and optimize our portal.
• Be the voice of design for the web portal and be able to articulate and defend design decisions and advocate for optimal user experiences; both to internal and external audiences.
• Deliver art assets and style guides to development and support the team during development and QA
• Work with Product Design leadership to create and maintain portal design best practices, style guidelines and information architecture.
• Work with Product Design leadership to evaluate and adopt new tools or processes that can improve design offerings and inform design
• Attend and participate in all relevant Product kickoff, daily standup, and planning meetings
• Stay up to date on the latest design paradigms and new technologies and provide recommendations on when to introduce them to latest portal initiatives

Qualifications:

• BFA / MFA in Design and 3+ years professional design experience
• Previous experience in end-to-end, utilitarian web portal design
• Proficient in industry standard software for wireframing, prototyping, and visual design (Creative Suite, Sketch, Sympli, Atomic or similar)
• Excellent visual, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment (with other designers, business and technical resources), as well as work independently and exercise sound professional judgment
• Strong internal motivation, natural ambition and an ability to deliver quickly across multiple projects
• Consistent track record for delivering commitments on time, with minimal supervision
• Strong attention to detail with an ownership mentality
• Ability to handle a variety of tasks and projects simultaneously in a creative environment
• Commitment to responsiveness, high quality work, and collaboration
• Ability to react to directional changes quickly and positively and to receive and implement constructive feedback
• Appreciation of balance between creative and business objectives
• Demonstrated knowledge of web industry and new technology trends

Desirable:

• Experience with User Research, User Testing or designing in sprints
• Experience using Jira
• Previous experience designing web interfaces for a web/mobile Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) or similar product offering
• Previous experience designing for mobile or responsive design
• Candidate must be open to travel as needed

Compensation and Benefits:

• Fun, casual, fast-paced work environment filled with talented colleagues
• Competitive salary
• Pre-IPO stock options - including “early exercise” provision
• Flexible paid time off
• Full range of benefits, including 401(k) and medical, dental and vision coverage