Senior or Lead UX – UI Designer

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Senior or Lead UX-UI Designer

Location: United States

Job Description

We are looking for a thoughtful, detail-oriented designer to be the next member of our growing developer-owned, remote-friendly, people-first, hyphen-loving company.

Candidates need to have experience designing for screens and building components and layouts for the web. The ideal candidate would be eager to collaborate on a growing team with plenty of opportunities for shaping their own role.

If you have experience designing production web applications and are passionate about collaborating with clients and teammates, then we want to talk!

Skills & Requirements

Loves to work directly with customers to solve business problems

Experience designing production web applications

Comfort with design, UI and prototyping tools (Figma, Sketch, Adobe Suite, inVision, etc)

Nice-to-haves

Being within easy driving distance of Richmond or Charlottesville is a HUGE plus!

Experience with HTML/CSS

Comfort with accessibility

Comfortable contributing code in varied templating languages and systems

Comfortable with basic JavaScript

Experience with front-end JavaScript frameworks

Comfort with version control (Github)

Public portfolio

Experience creating high fidelity mockups

Ready to advise project teams on design principles, usability and interactions

Ready to consult with project owners and end users to identify application requirements

Passion for at least a few of the following items

Typography

Animation

Writing

Atomic design

Component/pattern libraries and style guides

Flexbox and grid

Whatever is on the bleeding edge of CSS

Accessibility

Clickable Prototypes

User-centered design methods and techniques

User research

User testing

Growing a product design team

What We Offer

A Great Team Our team of engineers and designers is the best part of working here. We only hire people who are fantastic teammates competent and smart, sure, but also humble, positive, and generous.

Great Clients We work with mostly small and medium clients, for whom our projects make a huge impact. We prioritize clients who are pleasant and good to work with, people who share our values of transparency and empathy.

Work From Home We are a distributed company. Everyone works from home, though the leadership team all live in central Virginia.

Negligible Travel In general, we don’t travel routinely for projects. If this is a specific concern, we’re happy to discuss.

Flexible Work Schedule We require a certain amount of overlap with the rest of the team, but if you have a predictable schedule, we can probably support it, e.g., ending at 3:30 every day or being out every Friday morning.

Good Work Life Balance (really) We ask our team to work 40 hours a week*. That’s all: a good, productive 40 hours. And then we try our best to leave you alone off the clock. We do this in part because that’s how we want to live but also because we want our team to be recharged and ready to do their best when working. *If you need to work fewer than 40 hours, that might be possible too; let’s talk.

Competitive Compensation We offer highly competitive salary and benefits, including generous time off, 401k, FSA, medical and dental insurance