UI/UX Designer

Job Description

UX/UI Designer

Furniture.com, Atlanta

About Us

Furniture.com is a high growth consumer tech start up that is addressing fundamental challenges in the $200B US furniture space. The company is a B2B and B2C digital aggregator with a simple mission: To make finding furniture easy.

For consumers, we make it easy to find the right furniture by enhancing search and streamlining the end-to-end customer experience. For retail partners, we deliver a digital platform allowing them to expand their reach with a high-intent, high value furniture audience.

Furniture.com is growing fast. Our team is comprised of furniture experts (obviously) as well as world class technologists and brand builders. We come from a variety of walks of life and can be found either in Atlanta or in NYC. We are backed by the investment arm of one of America's largest furniture retailers, although we are independent and proudly building a technology in service of the furniture industry and furniture shoppers.

About the Role:

The UI/UX Designer shapes unique, user-centric solutions and experiences. You have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills, are able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive and functional user interfaces. You are a dynamic team player, self-starter, creative thinker who has fun tackling complex problems at scale, and a strong relationship builder who thrives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

Create innovative digital design solutions and UI systems

Create responsive design and interaction guidelines, along with reusable component libraries, that ensure a cohesive user experience across web platforms that can be adapted for both iOS and Android apps.

Use and create wireframes, prototypes, style guides, and user flows to effectively communicate interactions, user and business goals

Produce design documentation and create expected deliverables: guides and style, design concepts, wireframes, mock-ups, interactive prototypes, interface guidelines

Constantly monitor top design trends and user-interface best practices to enrich the user-interface of a product or a solution

Collaborate with other designers within the team to solve design challenges and ensure a level of design consistency and coherence across the digital channel

Passion and understanding of D2C affiliate platform, including best practices for mobile, web and dashboard design

Qualifications

Skills

Experience in creating prototypes from wireframe tools, low and high-fidelity clickable simulations

Strong experience using Figma.

Experience with different platforms supports: Web (Desktop + Mobile), Native (Mobile + Tablet)

Good understanding of design systems

Experience with planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing and rapid prototyping

Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing

Creative ideas with problem solving mindset

Ability to work effectively in a team setting

Synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications

Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines

Qualities

Passionate about resolving user pain points through great design

Strong sense of ownership of solution and not afraid to speak up to ensure the user angle is heard by the Product Owner

Open to learning new ideas outside scope or knowledge skillset to span across UI design, strategy and testing

Domain Expertise

Nice to have: Deep understanding of furniture industry

Nice to have: Marketing aggregator or affiliate platform marketplace experience

The company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or employment against any individual on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, citizenship, or any other factor protected by anti-discrimination laws

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Full-time