Senior UI Designer

Summary

Join Givelify, a fintech-for-good company, as a Senior UI Designer to create impactful digital experiences for our mobile giving app platform. Lead design initiatives, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement user-centered solutions. You will be responsible for the entire design process, from ideation to engineering handoff, ensuring high-quality product experiences. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of UI/product design experience, and expertise in mobile app design. You will leverage your skills in Adobe CC, Sketch, Figma, and prototyping to create world-class designs. Givelify offers competitive pay, full benefits, flexible PTO, and the opportunity to make a positive impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience with UI and product design
• 2+ years of experience with UI design for native mobile apps with complex interactions
• Expert knowledge of Adobe CC suite, Sketch, Figma, and/or other industry-standard creative tools
• A portfolio highlighting some of your best work
• Languages: English; Spanish a plus
• Prototyping: Lofi and Hifi prototypes, you know when to use one over the other and embrace an iterative process
• Communication: You can articulate what makes a good vs great design, as well as an articulate point of design view
• Problem solver who requires very little guidance on projects; thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Expert understanding of the formal design elements, including typography, layout, balance, and proportion

Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives, imagine novel solutions and work cohesively with other teams across the company
• Ensure completion of product designs by executing all phases of design work, from solution ideation to transitioning designs to engineering
• Maximize the throughput of product design tasks by owning design operations for your scope of work
• Continuously improve the quality of your design work by seeking and acting on feedback from stakeholders
• Apply human-centered design principles to design elegant product experiences for a diverse audience across mobile and web platforms
• Partner frequently with Product Managers and Engineers and sometimes with Executives, Data Scientists, Researchers, and Customer Success teams
• Define problems and goals, map user flows, prototype interactions, and launch new products and services
• Solicit feedback from users, cross-disciplinary partners, and stakeholders
• Give feedback and/or collaborate with engineers on implementation
• Work with the product and design team to define and implement a brand-aligned design system

Preferred Qualifications

• Research: You are familiar with front-end research (light ethnography) and/or able to facilitate user testing sessions to validate your designs with users
• Experience working with remote teams

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Full benefits to help care for you today and in the future
• Amazing perks (including flexible PTO)