Designer

Position OverviewuShip is currently seeking strong Designers to join the team! Designers are UX and visually minded creatives who work closely with a dedicated product team and creative leads to provide needed design support and guidance. They will also contribute to initiatives driven by the Experience team.
Responsibilities

• Participate as a contributor to an interdisciplinary product teams that includes creative leadership, designers, scrum, product managers, software developers, and QA
• Participate in product ideation and conceptual development using an iterative, user-centered design process
• Participate in design research, including generative user research (observational studies, customer interviews) and usability/validation testing
• Communicate research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale, both verbally and visually
• Produce scenarios, hero flows, design prototypes, design specifications, motion graphics, and animation effects
• Apply patterns from the uShip design language system in day-to-day design work. Maintain and extend the system as needed throughout this process.
• Produce information architectures, wireframes, and design specifications
• Produce visual designs that communicate product function and brand identity, including the design and production of screen layouts, color palettes, typography, user interface elements, and icons
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented as intended

Job Requirements

• 1-3 years of professional digital design experience that encompasses product design, e-commerce applications, and responsive web design
• Bachelors degree in Human Computer Interaction, Information Design, Graphic Design, or a related design or behavioral science discipline
• Strong and flexible skills in interaction (UX) design and visual (UI) design
• In-depth knowledge of user interface design processes and methodology, particularly as applied to mobile- based e-commerce applications
• Solid understanding of current interaction and visual trends across touchpoints (web, mobile, etc.)
• Proficient with current design and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Invision, After Effects, Keynote
• Experience designing motion graphics with tools such as After Effects a plus
• Familiarity with responsive mobile Web approaches and technologies (HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)
• Excellent communication, organization, and teamwork skills. Must be able to work both on a team and independently.
• Ability to articulate a point of view with respect to design decisions or options and communicate rationale influencing those decisions
• Effective time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects at once and ability to confidently estimate time required for specific tasks