Oyalabs is looking for a junior/ mid-level UX/ UI Designer to join our small but growing team working to ease parents’ anxiety and still be the best parent they can be. As a designer, you will be working closely with our engineers and product managers to conceptualize, design, prototype, test, and iterate on customer and product solutions. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, and be up to date on the latest trends in mobile design. Great plus if you had recently created designs for mobile apps that are thoughtful, elegant and delightful to 25 - 35 year olds around the world.
What You’ll Do
- Drive the design process through concept development, validation, wireframing, prototyping, and final visual design (in quick, iterative cycles).
- Produce high-quality interfaces, interactions and prototypes tailored to emerging and evolving use cases.
- Collaborate with the cross-functional product team (engineering, data science, and product management).
- Work with the product and engineering team to identify opportunities to create a better user experience.
- Craft designs that connect the dots between customer needs, data, business goals, and product workflow.
- Create assets (mockup, prototype, flow, etc.) with the appropriate level of detail for the requested needs.
Our ideal candidate has
- High-caliber product design skills. A deep understanding of user experience design, interaction modeling, typography, composition, and layout principles. Intimate knowledge of current digital design trends and conventions.
- Experience in the early stages of product development, iterating feature ideas with prototypes, doing user testing for desirability and usability; quantify results and make decisions with product managers based on data.
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Experience and efficiency with standard design tools like Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, and Invision.
- Front-end experience with CSS3, HTML5, modern JavaScript frameworks, and Flux/React a plus
- Experience working as a designer supporting the evolution of an iOS mobile app (startup experience preferred, agile approach preferred).
- A strong visual aesthetic, experience creating visual systems, and delivering beautiful, high fidelity, production-ready designs.
- Experience managing the design process from concept development to launch.
- Ability to discuss your work confidently connecting it to larger strategic objectives as well as clearly articulating tactical and execution details.
- A willingness to jump in and do what it takes to help the team achieve results.
- An online portfolio demonstrating selections of your professional work.
PERKS!
- Work in a fast-growing, cutting-edge technology startup with social impact in education at the core of our mission
- Enjoy working in flexible hours and locations, depending on your team's schedule and deliverables
- Regular monthly team bonding outings!
- Office in Hong Kong's hardware-oriented co-working space Makerbay
- > Work in a small, agile, and highly diverse and international team comprising of 8 different nationalities.