Head of Design

Marketing Castro is an independent agency with 550 employees in offices across Mexico. Creative, strategy, media and analytics staff work together in dedicated account groups.

Position summary

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Head of Design. Our Product Design team works closely with product and engineering. Designers here run their own usability tests and attend sprint planning. Remote position. Most of the team is in Mexico City, but nobody is required to come in. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short.

Your responsibilities

• Review implemented UI with engineers and file polish tickets.
• Sketch several directions early instead of polishing the first idea.
• Build interactive prototypes to test ideas before engineering starts.
• Write handoff specs covering states, edge cases and responsive behaviour.
• Present work in design critiques and respond to feedback.
• Run usability tests with customers, moderated or through Maze or UserTesting.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of product or UX design experience on digital products.
• Comfort running basic user research and usability tests.
• Ability to explain design decisions to non-designers.
• Experience designing for both web and mobile.
• Understanding of interaction design principles and usability heuristics.

Preferred qualifications

• Illustration or brand design skills.
• Dovetail or another research repository.
• Basic HTML and CSS.

Why work with us

• Private health insurance.
• Flexible hours.
• Payment in USD.
• Gym membership.
• Savings fund.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Marketing Castro.