Who you are
You are innovative and hardworking designer with web/mobile experience who would like to join our growing team and help the company with building the next generation scholarship application platform. Oriented to customer satisfaction, you are able to grasp user needs and deliver easy to use, quality and aesthetically pleasing products and services. You are fully devoted to maximization of user experience through your designs. Essentially, you are creative individual who enjoys working with a team on bringing abstract initiatives to life.
Who we are
ScholarshipOwl.com is a scholarship search and application productivity tool that helps students obtain scholarships to reduce their out-of-pocket costs, and potentially graduate debt-free. It streamlines and enhances the scholarship search, match and application process, enabling students to work more quickly and efficiently, resulting in an increased odds of earning scholarships.
We are a company that values the investment of time in people and mirror your success with recognition and a career path.
What you will do
Responsibilities for Product Designer:
- Identify opportunities for product enhancement
- Analyze how product features tie in with market needs and consumer segments
- Sketch drafts of concepts and product direction
- Set design requirements based on style guide and brand direction
- Turn concepts into design spec and prototypes to test functionality
- Improve the design of existing products
- Gather qualitative and quantitative feedback from product users
- Present product ideas to relevant team members for brainstorming
- Suggest improvements to design and performance to product engineers
- Employ design concepts into functional prototypes
- Perform research on product technologies and structures to implement into design concepts
- Maintain up to date on current industry trends and market conditions
- Modify and revise existing designs to meet customer expectations
Required:
Qualifications for Product Designer
- 3+ years of work in user experience or product design
- Real world experience building focus groups and getting user feedback prior to dev cycles
- Experience with user testing, validation, and gathering feedback
- Experience with Figma as a design program
- Experience working in agile product development methodologies
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent eye for aesthetic design and customer appeal
- Good understanding of color science and combinations
- Artistic and innovative flair
- Excellent attention to detail
- Meticulous and diligent
- Strong knowledge of the industry and market trends
- Time-management skills
- Adaptability
What we offer
- Fully remote work environment
- Unlimited vacation days
- Company summits once or twice a year in different locations
- $200/month workspace allowance
- Flexible schedule
- Hardware budget
Note: This is a fully remote position, location independent.