Create Ape - Senior UI/UX Designer job description

This is a fully remote position, not restricted by commutes or a particular geographic area.

Office hours: Monday through Friday, 9AM - 5PM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT UTC-7), this position requires individuals to be available for meetings and duties at least a six (6) hour block during this window.

Who we are:

Create Ape is a UX agency that is at the forefront of digital innovation, committed to delivering outstanding user experiences across all of our clients products and services. We are a dynamic and collaborative team that thrives on creativity and pushing the boundaries of design. Join us in shaping the future of technology and making a tangible impact on our users' everyday lives.

What we are looking for:

At Create Ape, UX/UI Designers are able to understand our client’s business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes. 

The UX designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with various feedback and user-testing criteria.  

Our design team works closely with Sales, Marketing, Development and Project Management teams to ensure our clients and projects have strategic, seamless user experiences to elevate and optimize the client journey from end to end.

Responsibilities:

• Help review and create client proposals.

• Capable of handling sales calls, directly interfacing with potential clients, and speaking to the work our organization performs on these type calls.

• Facilitate design critiques

• Translate concepts and requirements into user flows, wireframes, high fidelity mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences and attractive user interfaces.

• Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.

• Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.

• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.

• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.

• Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.

• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

• Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas.

Type of work: 

• Informational sites 

• Parallax sites 

• Mobile Apps 

• Complex web apps 

• Wireframing + Prototypes (Holla @ Figma & Invision yo!)

What you need to bring to the table: 

• Be able to work during our business hours (9 am to 5 pm PST). 

• Be available throughout the day via slack/email/etc. 

• Able to interface with clients and work with project managers on client needs. 

• 5 or more years of UX/UI design experience and a portfolio to back it up. 

• Wizard with Figma

• Must have Webflow experience, the more the better!

• Ability to create clickable prototypes using InVision. 

• Experience with ClickUp to post and collaborate on projects. 

• Extensive experience in using UX/UI design best practices to design solutions and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design. 

• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently, quickly, and intelligently.

Big bonus if you:

• Have some print and or brand design chops working in Illustrator + InDesign 

• Have basic knowledge of front end code (HTML. CSS, etc) 

If you like what you see and want to get out of that commute… holla at us with your portfolio, resume, and seriously... an interesting cover page (or video introduction)!