Senior Product Designer

Koombea is an app development partner that provides businesses worldwide with custom technology solutions. We help clients through all or parts of the Software Development Lifecycle. (SDLC), We have built hundreds of apps. Some of them have been acquired by Google, Motorola Solutions, Demandforce, Facebook, Skype, and other companies.

Koombea is an incredibly fun and fast-paced place to work, where the only currency that matters is the ability to be creative and drive results.

Our team is our greatest asset, and we pride ourselves on creating a culture where employees feel challenged, valued, and inspired. Over time, Koombea has established a reputation for being a great place to work, and we’re extremely proud of that.

Jonathan Tarud CEO

Product Design at Koombea

We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our kickass team in Barranquilla, Colombia. As a Senior Product Designer at Koombea, you will lead UX projects and ensures that the products experiences are valuable to our end-users, and also deal with complex problems and transform them into intuitive, accessible and easy-to-use experiences.

You will solve complex problems using User Experience methods and iterate on great solutions, also, you will work hard understanding complex requirements and help to set a vision for the product grounded in those needs, and collaborate with a cross-functional team to build it iteratively.

Responsibilities

This position reports to the Product Design Director and collaborates with others to elevate experiences across multiple products. As part of your role, you will:

  • Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products.
  • Work directly with engineers, delivering them product specs and assets
  • Work directly with junior designers to envision and iterate concepts
  • Design mockups and high-fidelity user interfaces
  • work on cross-platform applications to develop user experiences covering mobile, web and desktop platforms.
  • Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
  • Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new functions and features.
  • Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the team
  • Mentor junior designers and contribute to team processes and practices.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design (e.g. UX, interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial)
  • 5+ years of experience designing complex products for mobile and desktop devices in an Agile environment
  • A portfolio of work samples showcasing the qualifications above
  • Interest in constantly keeping up-to-date of latest trends, best practices and competitive activity.
  • Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
  • Have a love/hate relationship with Adobe & sketch
  • Excellent organizational, time and project management skills
  • Prototyped with tools like InVision, and Flinto App
  • Experience with responsive design, and the mobile first approach
  • Excellent communicator, collaborator and advocate for the user.

Plus Qualifications:

  • Experience with UX Research methods, planning and data analysis
  • Proficient with Sketch industry standard for design and prototyping

This is a progressive role that will be filled at the level based on the skills and experience of the selected candidate. Please include a portfolio/link displaying clear evidence of the elements listed above, if necessary. Be prepared to explain your contribution, process and rationale for the projects you show. 

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