Junior UI Designer

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Position : Junior UI Designer

Working Schedule : 9a-6p EST

Salary Range :$1,400-$1,600 (the final salary will be determined by the candidate's level of experience and at the discretion of the client)

 

Junior UI Designer

Our client is a design studio, headquartered in NYC. We are seeking a full-time Junior UI Designer with a strong understanding of UX to work remotely with our team on current and new projects related to crafting digital experiences, including but not limited to: Marketing sites, E-commerce sites and Web apps.

Responsibilities

• Design responsive and interactive sites to be built on Webflow
• Learn and adopt our documentation and UX best practices
• Collaborate with designers and project managers
• Work with developers to convert Figma files to Webflow sites
• Optimize human-centric designs for performance and ADA compliance
• Strong QA skills to find and resolve issues
• Perform audits to identify new and high-potential opportunities for our partners

Qualifications:

Technical Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience in visually crafting digital experiences
• Strong UI and visual design skills
• Strong understanding of UX design (project discovery, information architecture, and wireframing)
• Strong to advanced skills in Figma (components, variables, and styles)
• Experience with Zoom, Slack, GSuite
• Experience with project management tools (ClickUp)
• Understanding of brand guidelines to create design systems/inform UI design
• Skills in visual/graphic design skills (typography, color, composition)
• Skills in interaction design
• Ability to balance strong creativity with efficiency in a fast-paced agency environment

 

Soft Skills:

• System-approach: You think in design systems. You not only can design beautiful, functional websites but are also designing in a way that creates systems, assets, and workflows that scale.
• Communicative: You excel in asynchronous communication through written channels (Slack, email) or video (Loom) and consistently engage with teammates and clients. Strong English language skills are essential.
• Proactive: Whenever tasks or projects are completed, you proactively identify and engage in new work or side 
• Fluent English proficiency: You have advanced spoken and written English.

 

Who Will Be Prioritized

• Candidates with a proven track record of collaboration with designers and managers
• Candidates with excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with a willingness to teach and simplify complex concepts.
• Candidates with experience in client service (agency or freelance)
• Candidates who self-improve and update their own tasks proactively
• Candidate with a portfolio that showcases strengths in UI and visual design, along with proficiency in modern-day design tools like Figma.
• Candidate with experience in interaction design on the web.
• Candidate who learns / keeps up to date with latest design tools, features, and best practices 

 

Culture Fit

We’re looking for open-minded individuals who:

• Open-minded individuals who are comfortable working with companies that address complex social issues and amplify positive change for people and the planet (i.e., racial justice, gender, climate change, LGBTQ+ identity, immigrant rights, etc.).
• A purpose-driven individual with the lofty aspiration of making the world a better place.
• Thoughtful and detail-oriented.
• Responsible, team-oriented, and proactive working style.
• A strong conceptual thinker who seeks opportunities to improve processes and evolve creativity. Always thinking of ways to improve Greater’s work through design.
• Extremely detail-oriented while also being able to step back and see the bigger picture in the design work.
• Whenever tasks or projects are completed, you proactively identify and engage in new work or side projects that align with company objectives, continuously developing your skills
• Someone who prioritizes project momentum. Even when there is a question that needs to be answered, an ideal teammate should still be able to push the project forward in other ways while awaiting a response. Because we are remote and sometimes working asynchronously, we need teammates who will keep the momentum going.

 

What We Offer

• Full-time salary: $1,400 - $1,600/month (based on skill)
• 15 days paid time off
• 12 company-wide mental health days per year
• Local holidays as paid time off (does not count toward vacation days)
• Performance-based bonuses