UI Designer (Remote)

This is a remote position.

• Workshop Planning:  The ability to design and structure the workshop effectively, including setting objectives, creating agendas, and selecting appropriate activities or exercises.
  
• Time Management: Keep workshops on track, ensuring discussions stay focused, and that all key topics are covered within the allocated time.
  
• Group Dynamics Management: Managing different personalities in the room, ensuring active participation from everyone, and resolving conflicts or dominant voices in discussions.
  
• Guiding Conversations: Leading discussions in a way that helps participants focus on business goals, challenges, and user needs without going off-topic or into irrelevant details.
  
• Understanding Business Needs: Listening attentively to identify the underlying business problems, goals, and constraints customers face.
  
• Empathy: Demonstrating an ability to understand the customer’s perspective, challenges, and concerns, and responding thoughtfully.
  
• Clarifying Questions: Asking insightful, clarifying questions to dig deeper into customer feedback and gain a fuller understanding of their business.
  
• Clear Explanation: Being able to explain design concepts, processes, and technical ideas in simple, non-jargon language that aligns with the business's understanding.
  
• Verbal and Visual Communication: Using both verbal explanations and visual aids (e.g., diagrams, sketches, or prototypes) to convey ideas effectively.
  
• Presenting Ideas: Confidently presenting information, summarizing key points, and ensuring that clients understand the value of design thinking in solving their business challenges
  
• Understanding Business Goals: The ability to comprehend the customer’s industry, market position, competition, and long-term goals to tailor the design solutions accordingly.
  
• Synthesizing Information: The ability to take large amounts of input from different stakeholders and distil it into clear insights, key problems, and actionable objectives.
  
• Building Trust:  Establishing a rapport with clients and making them feel comfortable sharing information about their business, challenges, and goals.
  
• Managing Tensions: Skillfully navigating tense or difficult conversations and maintaining a constructive, solution-oriented atmosphere throughout the workshop.
  
• Copy: Write persuasive copy that helps meet the goals of the webpage.
  
• Showcase: Showcase your work internally to the design team and other stakeholders.
  
• Team & Mentorship: Should be a team player and help/guide others when needed.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Web Design, Interaction Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 3+ years of experience as a UI Designer, Web Designer, or similar role with a strong portfolio of web design work.
  
• Proficiency in Design Tools: Advanced knowledge of tools : Adobe Suite, Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, and Illustrator.
  
• Responsive and Adaptive Design: Familiarity with creating responsive and adaptive designs that work across different devices and screen sizes.
  
• Typography and Color Theory: Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and visual hierarchy to enhance user experience.
  
• Attention to Detail: Excellent attention to detail and a strong eye for aesthetics.
  
• Basic Understanding of UX Principles: Knowledge of user experience design and how UI impacts overall user journeys.
  
• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Ability to clearly articulate design concepts and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  
• Technical Skills
  

• Visual design: Exceptional user interface design skills with a deep understanding of colour theory & layouts and how they influence decision making.
  
• Motion Design: Good understanding of motion design and hands on experience with Lottie animations.
  
• Graphics design: Should know where to use what graphics and also use AI tools when needed.
  

• With ready work-from-home setup, internet access and equipment
  
• Willing to work as an Independent Contractor
  

Benefits

• Full time opportunity
  
• Remote work
  
• Day shift​