UX Designer

📋 Description

• As Travelstride’s lead UX Designer, you will work with the founder, product manager and a team of developers to create and improve engaging and satisfying user experiences with new platform features for both travelers and travel companies.

• You will help develop new ideas through research and testing.

• You are both a strategic thinker and a tactical doer - eager to roll up your sleeves and do all design work as necessary for both the core product and also to support marketing and other company initiatives.

• Create beautiful web pages and experiences that delight users and achieve business goals.

• Design wireframes and pixel perfect hifi designs to meet business needs balancing UX, SEO, CRO and other business goals.

• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look.

• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product manager and engineers.

• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemap.

• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets.

• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems.

• Proactively speak with users directly and via surveys and other tools to understand evolving needs and suggest future changes and opportunities.

🎯 Requirements

• Have 2 to 5 years of design experience

• Thrive in a fast-paced results-driven environment with varied responsibilities and challenging assignments that would strike fear into the hearts of average designers

• Rock design tools like Figma

• Communicate ideas easily verbally and in writing with engineers and marketing

• Prefer to experiment with new designs and use data to drive decisions rather than view as an art project

• Listen to customers, partners, and teammates, and respond well to feedback

• Embrace Web Usability, User-Centered Design, & Agile methodologies

• Feel passionate that ‘success is in the details as much as in the ‘big picture’

• Love managing multiple projects simultaneously and hit deadlines, using the 80/20 rule as your mantra

• Are known to friends and colleagues as cheerful, with a good sense of humor and a positive attitude

• Enthusiastically and proactively help beyond the bounds of your day to day role

• Ship quickly and adjust your process to fit the needs of an early-stage startup, valuing shipping a good solution now over a great solution several weeks from now.

🏖️ Benefits

• $4,000 annual vacation credits through our travel partners

• Fun, driven, cohesive coworkers and team spirit - Regular company lunches and happy hours plus quarterly team outings & parties

• Meaningful work - you are helping more people travel internationally, and helping our global tour operator partners thrive as sustainable ventures

• The ability to make a major impact as an early team member at a growing startup with huge market size and impressive traction