Senior Product Designer at Ushahidi

Job Description

Ushahidi is looking for a senior designer to contribute to Ushahidi’s user experience and design systems. You’d work closely with other designers, product managers, engineers, and sales staff to develop solutions to users’ problems using primarily the web, iOS, and Android.

We need someone who can work end-to-end through the entire design process, from discovery, problem definition, information architecture, and interaction design to pixel-pushing the UI, prototyping, carrying out light-weight user testing, and prototyping in code. We understand that your skillset will be stronger in some areas and weaker in others, but you need to contribute at every step of the product design process. If you’re a designer first and you don’t mind wearing lots of hats, you’ll do great.

This is a remote position.

We strongly encourage people from traditionally underrepresented populations in tech – such as women, People of Color, People with Disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people, etc – to apply!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and sales staff to scope, prototype, design, build, user test, and release software and communication material to users.
• Communicate design direction for solving users’ problems from concept to implementation.
• Develop and implement Ushahidi’s design systems, including those used in products and marketing collateral.
• Lead user testing process, from low-fidelity testing early in the design process, to high-fidelity tests to improve already-built features.
• Contribute to the brand and creative assets of Ushahidi Inc.

Why you should apply

You are a thoughtful, creative product designer with a few years of work experience and an interest in international development and social justice. After hacking away at your own projects and/or busting your chops for a while in the corporate world and startups, you’re looking to use your skills to develop software that has a tangible social good.

New cultures, people and experiences give you energy; you work effectively and efficiently on distributed teams with diverse experience across many time zones. Given the freedom to work anywhere, you are self-guided and can work autonomously. You bring empathy and effective communication to you day to day work. Chaos gives you joy, order is your satisfaction.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum qualifications

• A portfolio that demonstrates examples of thoughtful and well-executed product and visual design.
• Ability to present your work, as well as articulate and receive written and verbal feedback in English.
• Experience with designing responsive web pages and adaptive iOS and Android applications.
• Comfortable working in a global team committed to remote collaboration, across time zones.
• Confident, productive, and comfortable working with autonomy.
• Solid understanding of HTML and CSS (including Sass).
• Experience doing UX studies and using user-centric design practices to design products
• Experience with the design thinking process including effective ideation, prototyping, user feedback and implementation.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in graphic design or other visual design field
• Experience maintaining and extending a front-end design system or style guide.
• The ability to prototype your designs in HTML, CSS/Sass, and JavaScript
• Experience designing in an agile software development environment
• Experience with Git and GitHub workflows.