Product Designer

Summary

Join Moneytree's Layer 2 Discovery Vertical as a designer to craft exceptional products solving real-world financial challenges. Collaborate with passionate designers, product managers, engineers, and marketers in a flexible, supportive, and meritocratic environment. Leverage your UI design expertise, user research skills, and ability to tackle ambiguous problems. Contribute to product discovery, prototyping, usability testing, and the creation of functional user interfaces and visual systems. Work collaboratively with product, engineering, and marketing teams to make high-quality decisions improving user understanding of financial data. This role offers the freedom and responsibility to do your greatest work, utilizing the best tools and a flexible, supportive environment.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working with in-house, embedded, product teams
• A product design-focused portfolio which displays an acute attention to detail
• Experience working for a SaaS company, on web and mobile products and with distributed (remote) teams
• Native Japanese (or JPLT N2 equivalent) and business-level English proficiency
• Has basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Experience operating in a fast-paced start up environment, while wearing multiple hats
• A willingness to continually learn, embrace the unknown and receive feedback

Responsibilities

• Operate as a design generalist, owning problems, translating research insights and business goals in to new ideas, designing the user journeys and detailed interactions to bring those ideas to life
• Support research activities to solidify your team’s understanding of customer’s business problems and pain points
• Create low-fidelity user flows and prototypes, considering accessibility and responsiveness, through to pixel-perfect mock-ups
• Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure that the finished product aligns closely with original design work and maintains a high quality standard
• Apply an iterative design process by collaborating with non-design stakeholders to build consensus
• Contribute to the maintenance and evolution of brand new design systems
• Take advantage of product analytics and data to form solid hypotheses around user experience problems
• Identify new opportunities and shift gears, when necessary, based on customer needs
• Help drive the direction, in process and culture, of a young design team

Benefits

• Referral bonus 250,000 JPY per successful hire
• Communication allowance (10,000 JPY/month)
• Remote work allowance (3000 JPY/month)
• 20 annual paid leave
• 10 annual sick and care leave
• Health and social insurance support
• Ability to work from overseas for short periods
• Learning support