Website Designer III

Summary

Join Xapo Bank as a Senior Website Designer and contribute to the design and development of our website, working remotely from anywhere in the world. You will collaborate with marketing and product teams to create visually compelling and user-friendly web pages. Responsibilities include designing website content, collaborating on page content architecture, using data to inform design choices, and communicating design decisions effectively. You will also build functional prototypes, design reusable components, and actively steer the website's visual direction. The ideal candidate possesses strong visual design, motion design, and brand design skills, along with an eye for video, photography, and copywriting. Xapo offers a flexible PTO plan, a yearly budget for learning and development, and a remote work environment.

Requirements

• Visual design: this will be the core skill of the role: you are able to craft visually compelling experiences and layouts
• Motion design and storytelling: you bring static designs to life in ways that are pleasing and not overdesigned. You connect motion and interactive motion design to storytelling, so that content springs to life as users browse through it
• Brand design: you will be translating our brand into visual assets
• An eye for video and photography, and the ability to use tools to make quick edits, extend existing videos, and make your own director’s cut
• A strong sense for good copy and content writing: this role isn’t for a copywriter, but you will need to ensure that design goes hand in hand with perfect content
• A dedicated workspace
• A reliable internet connection with the highest speed available in your area
• Devices and essential tools that meet minimum technical requirements
• Alignment with our values

Responsibilities

• Design website content in the form of pages, blocks, and elements from wireframe to pixel-perfect
• Collaborate with Marketing in order to draft and architect page content, making sure pages don’t just look stunning, but they tell a story
• Use and understand data to inform your architecture choices
• Effectively communicate your design thinking and visual choices to cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and leadership
• Build functional prototypes to validate and test your designs
• Design elegant, scalable components that can be reused for future pages and can make up a website design library
• Actively steer the website’s visual direction, taking a proactive role in its evolution, and helping define its feature and design roadmap
• Work together (and manage) various stakeholders including a Product Manager, Engineers, a Content Writer, our VP of marketing, ensuring your design ideas and direction is clear and well communicated
• Bring high-level (sometimes vague) concepts into execution, and establish workflows for getting there in a structured way
• Make sure your designs don’t just live in a pretty Figma page but bring them to life by working together with engineers in a pragmatic way

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points if you understand the technicalities of building websites and/or are proficient with no-code tools such as Frame or, Webflow

Benefits

• Shape the Future: Improve lives through cutting-edge technology, work 100% remotely from anywhere in the world
• Great work-life balance: Build amazing things with a balance of autonomy and collaborative teamwork. Set your own work schedule and make use of a flexible PTO plan when you need to recharge
• Expect Excellence: Collaborate, learn, and grow with a high-performance team. Learn how you learn best - from books to conferences, you’ll get a yearly budget for your individual learning and development goals