{"id":18236,"date":"2017-03-08T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=18236"},"modified":"2017-03-08T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T20:53:45","slug":"job-fulltime-mobile-ui-visual-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2017\/03\/08\/job-fulltime-mobile-ui-visual-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"JOB: fulltime Mobile UI Visual Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><br class=\"gmail-Apple-interchange-newline\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div>Mobile Product Designer &#8211; 70% Visual, 30% UX<\/div>\n<div>Midlevel<\/div>\n<div>Fulltime, NYC<\/div>\n<div>At established product company with awesome leaders; helping people with major life transitions<\/div>\n<div>JD:\u00a0<a class=\"gmail-m_-1174231026090460272linkified\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gWAkRV\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gWAkRV<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>hi ITPers! Love designing for mobile apps? Read on!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Our client is a successful lifestyle &amp; media brand with millions of users, that\u2019s successfully transformed into a product + tech company, and work in an Agile, MVP-focused way. They help their users navigate some of their most important, happy moments and decisions in their lives, in a meaningful, design-led way.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re seeking a\u00a0<b>fulltime Mobile UI Visual Designer\u00a0<\/b>with 2-5 years experience, with a background in successfully designing + launching mobile apps, and who keeps up with the latest and greatest in mobile tech and design. They like folks who think beyond best practices to innovate new user-centered products that are elegant and delightful, and startup \/ Agile backgrounds are always welcome, as they operate in the same way.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;ve been around the block for over a decade, so there&#8217;s heaps of stability, and yet they have an internal &#8220;swat team&#8221;, Agile process on the inside, which feels very much like a startup, so they like fellow entrepreneurial, innovative thinkers.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Their fearless leaders are the best, most beloved managers ever! They get their own paragraph they&#8217;re so awesome and well-respected in the field. Their new VP of UX &amp; Design &#8211; who we\u2019ve worked with and *adored* for many years &#8211; is one of the most empathetic, transparent, thoughtful, and supportive managers you could wish for. \u00a0He really cares about people and design to a degree that&#8217;s totally, totally special. And, their new EVP of Product has a slammin&#8217; pedigree, both in academia and in business, as well as a successful track record of start-up leadership, and multiple patents under his name.\u00a0 He&#8217;s helped revamp\u00a0the team into Agile squads, so Design + Tech + Product are all in equal partnership, collaborating closely to\u00a0iterate new and exciting products and features.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll enjoy excellent benefits, including unlimited PTO, 401K, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, educational stipend, guest speakers and learning events, volunteering opportunities, and a mentorship program.\u00a0It&#8217;s a culture of developing people, with lots of attention to the happiness of their employees. Indeed &#8211; their internal colleague satisfaction survey is overwhelmingly positive, and they have very little turnover &#8211; the proof is in the pudding, as they say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a designer:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>You have world-class visual and interaction design sensibility and skills, with experience in mobile app design (UI \/ Product Design) &#8211; iOS is a must, Android + Windows are big plusses<\/li>\n<li>You bring projects from concept to completion, and have successful product launches under your belt.<\/li>\n<li>You value outcome over output, understand the role of the MVP as a tool for measuring progress toward a desired outcome.<\/li>\n<li>You have a passion for research, user testing and user behavior analysis, and process quantitative as well as qualitative data alongside empathy as a driver to distill into innovative, user-centric solutions.\n<ul>\n<li>That said, if you don&#8217;t have a ton of research experience, it&#8217;s OK &#8211; they will train you. Great opportunity here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You have a solid understanding of brand and are capable of executing on designs that support and communicate brand value<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re smart, confident, highly competent\u2014and mature enough not to have an ego.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re a skilled communicator who welcomes honest, candid feedback.<\/li>\n<li>\u200b You are a team player who effectively partners with Product Managers, Devs, Researchers and content creators to oversee the experience from conception to launch<\/li>\n<li>You thrive in a fast-paced Agile environment to rapidly test and learn, and you have Agile experience, preferably.<\/li>\n<li>You have strong facilitation and collaboration skills with an ability to lead collaborative design sessions and decision-making across the organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3+ years proven experience designing user interface solutions on consumer-friendly interactive experiences<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge in as many of these as possible: iOS9 &amp; 10, Android 5.0 Lollipop, Material Design best practices<\/li>\n<li>Experience shipping iOS applications; Android is a plus<\/li>\n<li>BA\/BS in Product Design, Interaction Design, or a related field (or equivalent proven field experience)<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated experience with Lean UX design principles and practice (supporting portfolio + references)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to rapidly produce multiple UX\/UI concepts<\/li>\n<li>At least some experience with rapid prototyping, testing with users, and iterating in low-fidelity (paper sketches or interactive mock-ups)<\/li>\n<li>The communication skills to clearly articulate your concepts\u2014and evangelize on their behalf<\/li>\n<li>Utilization of UI Kit standards wherever possible, knowing when customization is appropriate<\/li>\n<li>Proficiency in Adobe CC, Sketch, and InVision. Experience with Flinto or Framer is a plus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<b>TO APPLY,\u00a0<\/b>email your resume, URL\/portfolio, and salary range to:<br \/>\njoanne (at) joanneweavergroup (dot) com<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks, and we look forward to hearing from you!<\/div>\n<div>Joanne<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Joanne Weaver<\/div>\n<div>President<\/div>\n<div>The Joanne Weaver Group<\/div>\n<div>UX \/ UI \/ Product Design Recruitment<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joanneweavergroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.joanneweavergroup.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"tel:(917)%20623-9369\" target=\"_blank\">+1 917.623.9369<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joanneweaver\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a title=\"Current Jobs\" href=\"http:\/\/jobs.joanneweavergroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Current Jobs<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a title=\"Work With Us\" href=\"http:\/\/joanneweavergroup.com\/contact-us\" target=\"_blank\">Work With Us<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile Product Designer &#8211; 70% Visual, 30% UX Midlevel Fulltime, NYC At established product company with awesome leaders; helping people with major life transitions JD:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/2gWAkRV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}