UI / UX Designer at Lori Systems

The Position

Lori is seeking a hands-on UI / UX Designer to join our Product team. As a UI / UX Designer, you will partner with our data engineers, product team leads, and logistics teams. Your job will involve participation in ideation sessions and you will be expected to translate complex problems into simple solutions. You must be passionate, a great communicator and motivating to those around you; at the same time, maintain the highest level of craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders to lead design projects across the entire life cycle from ideation to launch
• Create multiple concepts, translate them to high fidelity designs, and prototype interactions
• Maintain our design system and contribute ways to work more efficiently
• Move fluidly between tools, as we use a combination of Figma, UXPin, Sketch, ProtoPie and Adobe CC
• Iterate based on feedback, initiate A/B testing, and follow through on user research
• Assist with technical implementation and uphold quality assurance of project builds

Requirements

• 3+ years of UX design experience and a portfolio that showcases UX, visual design skills, and interaction
• A passion for solving problems using design
• Experience building products for web, tablet, and mobile form factors
• Experience conducting usability studies and interacting with end users/clients
• Full cycle designer from concept through to solution, polish and asset creation
• Excellent communication skills
• Expert level user of design, presentation, and communication tools
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript frameworks like React
• Adore visual storytelling and data visualization
• Have a passion for staying at the forefront of technology and design

The Lori team of ~200 employees is led by nerds obsessed with revolutionizing logistics in Africa:

• Josh Sandler, CEO: Industrialization + logistics work, Harvard MBA/MPA-ID, South African native
• Jean-Claude Homawoo, CPO: Product Lead at Google, VP Strategy at iRoko; Harvard MBA, Togolese native
• Uche Ogboi, COO: Principal at EchoVC (TPG Growth investment platform), Citi, Nigerian native
• Efayomi Carr, Head of Strategic FInance: Africa focused investor at Quona Capital, BCG, Sierra Leonean native