Lead UI/UX Designer
SamCart is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce platforms because it’s built for the most popular type of new business...direct-to-consumer. Instead of building bloated eCommerce stores, SamCart lets product creators create beautiful pages that showcase individual products, which leads to higher conversions and increased average order value.
We are looking for a creative, passionate, and experienced Lead UI/UX Designer to lead and inspire our team to build compelling experiences for our users and their customers. Our Lead Designer will define the SamCart aesthetic. The Lead UI/UX Designer will contribute to all phases of product discovery, development, and delivery in conjunction with our Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams. Leveraging a full range of skills from strategic thinking, user journey mapping, and experience design, this role will apply a strong visual voice to our applications and communicate design directions clearly and convincingly through influence and individual contribution.
Requirements
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with engineering to build beautiful and functional user experiences for our web and mobile products.
- Champion customer needs through human-centered design practices, including discovery, research, whiteboard sessions, and user testing.
- Own and help evolve our design system and individually contribute to an array of projects that implement our design system.
- Mentor and coach team members, fostering alignment in strategy and values.
- Evangelize best practices, leading by example in all aspects of design execution from ideation through production.
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of professional experience designing web and mobile applications
- An awesome portfolio of UI/UX design that illustrates your strategy and process
- Aptitude for simplifying complexity and turning abstract ideas into concrete designs
- Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative user research
- Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teammates
- Expert knowledge of design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, and Invision
- High proficiency with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Benefits
This is what you’ll love about SamCart
Our co-founders always say “Their success is our success” and we believe that about our people too! We want everyone to love their job at least 80% of the time and when you are successful, the whole team is successful.
- Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire from and for a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
- We have unlimited PTO with an encouraged 14-day minimum to empower our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their day-to-day lives.
- Yay, we have 401K!
- Health Insurance premiums are covered 100% by SamCart for you +1, be it a significant other or child.
- Supportive Parental leave policies for all parents
- Career growth and development are essential here at SamCart and we want all team members to build a sustainable, future-proof and adaptable approach to the management of their careers.
- Self-Care is important, which is why we offer a monthly wellness credit.
Our Core Values
Be Transparent - We communicate openly, thrive on feedback, and check our egos at the door.
Be Human - We operate with compassion and always assume positive intent.
Be an Owner - We are all owners of the business. We take pride in our work and know that the success of our customers and the business contributes to our individual success.
Be Creative and Commit - We collaborate, create resourceful solutions, and work as a team to get it done.
Be You - We are stronger together because of the unique qualities we each bring to the team. We believe in balance, making time for fun, and enjoying the work we do!