Junior UX/UI Designer

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Founded in 2022, we now have 17 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The Junior UX/UI Designer will design end-to-end product flows, from rough sketches to final specs in Figma. We are headquartered in Houston and have been hiring remotely since 2020. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

What you'll do:

• Map current workflows and pain points using research and support data
• Present work in design critiques and respond to feedback
• Review implemented UI with engineers and file polish tickets
• Build interactive prototypes to test ideas before engineering starts
• Sketch several directions early instead of polishing the first idea
• Design user flows, wireframes and high-fidelity screens in Figma

What you'll need:

• Understanding of interaction design principles and usability heuristics
• Expert in Figma, including auto layout, components and variants
• Comfort running basic user research and usability tests
• Experience designing for both web and mobile

Pluses:

• Dovetail or another research repository

Perks and benefits:

• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Company laptop

Please mention your notice period and expected salary.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Flexible.

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