Job brief

South Outdoor Festival is seeking a full-time UI/UX Designer! As a UI/UX Designer, you will work with both Product and Marketing team to design new features and improve existing features across all our web and mobile products. Your role will contribute to all aspects of design: visual, user experience, product and interaction.

UI/UX Designer responsibilities include gathering user requirements, designing graphic elements and building navigation components. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with design software and wireframe tools. If you also have a portfolio of professional design projects that includes work with web/mobile applications, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you’ll create both functional and appealing features that address our clients’ needs and help us grow our customer base.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the product & marketing team to design new features and improve existing features across SOF web and mobile products
• Convey your concepts through wireframes, flows, and prototypes
• Conduct user research to identify problems and validate designs; have a user-focused mentality
• See through each project from ideation to release and continue to seek improvements
• Present work to stakeholders and make improvements based on feedback
• Help grow and shape the design culture and improve processes within the company

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in design or equivalent professional experience
• 1 – 2 years experience working in the design field
• Proficiency in current design and prototyping tools (Sketch, inVistion, etc) and ability to learn new ones as projects require
• Knowledge of Web, iOS, and Android design standards
• Up-to-date knowledge of design software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Figma and XD.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design methods
• Creative, curious, and not afraid of asking questions
• Ability to connect design decisions back to business objectives and user research, and to work with the engineering and marketing teams
• Love for digging deep and understanding the user
• Must be available for 30% travel and work flexible hours
• Ambitious and constantly looking for ways to grow and improve yourself
• Portfolio of design projects
• Team spirit; strong communication skills to collaborate with various stakeholders
• Good time-management skills