Senior UI/UX Designer
SkillLab, Netherlands

As UI/UX Designer, you design our mobile-first software application. Embedded into the cross-functional product team, you drive the design process for new and existing features. Your strong understanding of different UX disciplines will contribute to helping marginalized job seekers to reach their goals.

Your team

You are part of SkillLab’s growing Product Team:

• Ragnar leads the Product Team and manages our product workflow. You will closely work with and directly report to him.
• Gaspar, Jesus and Victor are SkillLab’s software engineers
• Upeksha is our Data Scientist
• Beatriz is our UX Researcher
• Azza supports the user research in her role as Customer Success and Reporting Specialist.
• Norma is our freelance visual designer

Requirements

What you will do! (Responsibilities)

• Lead the design process from start to finish
• Own and expand our current design System
• Create UI designs and prototypes for testing and development
• Design interfaces, user-flows and information hierarchies that create an emotionally rewarding and motivating user experience
• Review and critique implemented designs
• Pay close attention to UX analytics and user research insights to inform your designs
• Plan UX/UI priorities with the Product Manager and UX Researcher
• Constantly improve the usability and user experience of our app

Is this you?

• You are excited about our social mission to provide skill-based career guidance to marginalised communities around the world
• You are ready for the adventure of being part of a technology start-up with a social mission
• You have empathy to relate to our multicultural user base including job seekers from around the world
• You have 5+ years of experience working as UX/UI role on a consumer-facing product
• You are a team player, while also being able to work autonomously
• You feel comfortable working with Figma in a collaborative way
• You are are open to feedback and ready to integrate it into design iterations
• You have experience in designing complex user flows, decision-support systems, framework-level interactions or reward systems
• You have strong English communication skills

• You have experience working with interaction design principles and are able to design solutions beyond the visual interface
• You have experience with gamification
• You have experience working with product analytics software such as Mixpanel
• You are familiar with agile development practices
• You have experience with accessibility frameworks and standards

Benefits

• Annual gross salary in line with your experience: 55,000 - 70,000
• Additional equity incentives possible
• Relocation support for international hires, including application support for 30% ruling
• 25 paid holidays, plus public holidays off
• Work laptop and SkillLab swag
• Fully paid leave or partner leave for up to 5 weeks in the first 6 months after childbirth
• Personal development budget, plus quarterly learning and development coaching calls
• Transparent and fair market-based compensation that matches your experience
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam with periodic remote work possible
• Priceless: Work on an exciting project using innovative technologies to solve a major societal problem

We envision a start-date on 1 August 2021. If this job is not for you, perhaps you have a friend who might be a good fit. Send them this job posting!

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