User Interface and Experience Designer (Remote)

User Interface Designer

MonAfrique Lifestyle

Formal position title: UI/UX Designer

Location: Remote

Start Date: Immediately

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

MonAfrique is a premium online retail and wholesale store that curates for sale the best of African lifestyle for clients globally to delight in and cherish. We’re a lifestyle brand that aims to foster innovation, trade, and development by carefully curating consumer lifestyle products, created by local designers across the continent.Our mission is to reintroduce indigenously-made lifestyle products from the continent, to permeate the contemporary quotidian lifestyle of consumers globally.

Role:

We are looking for a talented UI Designer to create amazing user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
• Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to development
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
• Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
• Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices and standards

To be a Successful Candidate

• Have experience with remote work
• Be Highly Organized
• Create stunning, clean interactions speedily
• Have E-commerce UI experience

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related field
• Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Illustrator, or other visual design and wire-framing tools
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Ability to present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders.
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process

Who do we typically hire?

Driven, reliable, skilled people who are great at their work and passionate about making a positive change through utilizing their talent. Our hires are vibrant and dynamic, reliable and respectful.

Why work with us?

We’re forward thinking and innovators. Long before it became popular, we’ve been ahead of the trend,working remotely and online. We hire globally and are a culturally diverse team, with hires across Europe, Africa, Asia North and South America. We care about the physical and mental health of all our hires. We also care about your professional development and offer training in areas where you could be stronger.

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