JOB DESCRIPTION
Colony is looking for a UX Designer to join our product team and help design the future of open work. The job of a UX Designer is to seek user insights through various forms of user research, apply these insights to create design solutions, and bring those solutions to life in a way that feels inspired, refined and even magical.
As part of the product team you will influence the entire user experience while helping us refine our product development process. We’re looking for someone who can advocate good design practices, thrive in a highly collaborative environment, and communicate effectively with remote teams.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Conduct user research and translate insights and learnings into digital solutions, prototypes, and storytelling within a digital landscape
- Think with your hands by developing storyboards, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Develop user personas, journey maps, and other tools that will help steer product direction to be more human-centered
- Advocate for interaction design best practices
- Continuously refine user research methods and interaction design strategy into the core product development process
- At each stage, you will anticipate what our users need, advocate for them, and ensure that the final product surprises and delights them
WHAT YOU HAVE
- Hands-on experience conducting UX research end-to-end, including research planning, remote testing, gathering insights, analyzing results, summarizing, and presenting findings
- Experience applying research insights into concept ideation, design strategy, and digital prototyping
- Experience with prototyping as a means to explore and convey design solutions
- Experience owning the interaction design process
- Worked in highly collaborative design teams and has familiarity with working in a remote environment
- Willingness to take initiative, run with projects, and speak up when support and guidance is needed
- Proficiency of working with design tools such as Sketch, Figma, and InVision
BONUS POINTS
- A passion for blockchain technology and a desire to help promote good design in this emerging field
- An interest in analytical design tools such as surveys, A/B testing, and other quantitative research methods