Product Designer

Summary

The job is a remote position for a product or UI/UX designer at Shakacode, working on projects including HiChee.com. The candidate should have 3+ years of experience, good communication skills in English, and be comfortable with clients. They should also be able to work independently, create high-fidelity designs, estimate hours for design work, and adapt to startup environments.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience as a product or UI/UX designer with shipped products in your portfolio
• Good written and spoken communication skills in English
• Comfortable working with clients, including the ability to present and defend design decisions
• Demonstrated ability to work responsibly remotely
• Ability to write first drafts of UX copy
• Ability to consider the relative difficulty of engineering for various designs
• Ability to estimate how many hours design work will take
• Comfortable with startup environments where changes can happen quickly

Responsibilities

• Work independently on big projects and make decisions based on varying amounts of information
• Create high fidelity designs with either Figma, Sketch, or Invision

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding how digital advertising works, concepts of monetization, conversion rates, Google, and other website analytics in order to drive designs and product plans
• Has demonstrated product management skills such as the ability to help a startup founder evaluate the overall business model that will drive the product design and, especially, how the startup can evaluate different product options before building them
• Experience with marketplaces
• Experience with administrative dashboards used to manage websites
• Ability or interest in frontend coding, maybe with React