Senior UI Designer

Bilingual, 4+ years experience, Remote, Part-time

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About Us

NetMidas is a software staffing company based in Cali, Colombia since 2007. We have worked with a broad range of clients including large multinationals (including Apple), startups, and international NGOs, as well as our own digital products.

Position Summary

As a Visual Designer, you will be a steward of our company brand while delivering exceptional design for teams across the business. Brand expression, fine-tuning, campaign exploration, and UI design are all key aspects of success. 

Requirements

Must Haves:

• Strong ability to communicate in English (Professional English proficiency).
• Bachelor’s degree in Web Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, related degree, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years experience as a visual designer or in a similar capacity designing visuals for a corporate environment.
• Working proficiency in tools common to visual design (e.g., Adobe Creative Suite’s InDesign, Photoshop, Canva, Illustrator, etc.).
• Basic knowledge of modern design principles and tools, marketing strategies, and visual design software packages.

• Deep knowledge of:

• contemporary design, technology trends, and brand expression techniques.
• design research, user experience design processes, principles, and methodologies.
• SDLC processes and at least one agile SDLC tool to manage work (e.g., JIRA).

• Proven ability to:

• Approach design projects innovatively and to collaborate and create with other designers and project managers to bring innovation and experience to life for audiences of all types.
• Actively seek out and apply feedback to work in the spirit of collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Effectively communicate, build relationships, and leverage influential skills to gather information in a busy environment.
• Confidently present designs in an inspiring and compelling way.
• Energize teams and advocate for your ideas.
• Adapt quickly to short timelines, changes in prioritization, and ambiguity in an agile work environment.

• Strong experience leading and communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale, all within a user-centered design process.
• Self-motivated, able to prioritize and manage workload, and meet critical project deadlines.
• Proficiency in keeping up to date on visual design technologies, techniques, and industry trends.
• Understand and be able to quickly adapt to the challenges and opportunities of designing for a marketplace business that has multiple sets of unique customers.
• Commitment to quality and attention to detail in all aspects of data integration and pipeline development.
• Demonstrated design research, visual and interaction design, and problem-solving skills.
• Expert collaboration, communication (both written and verbal), presentation, creativity, conflict resolution, ideation, and project management skills.

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Nice to haves:

• Familiarity with technology, software, and the Transportation industry
• Industry certification

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You will:

• Design materials supporting the Design and Marketing teams.
• Be responsible for building campaigns and initiatives, contributing to conversion, and ensuring designs move the needle and impact experiences positively. 
• Focus on creating and expanding design assets for marketing, and UI experiences while maintaining a strong design foundation, and collaborating with the larger Design and UX teams. 
• Lead strategic and design brainstorming sessions and provide recommendations regarding visual strategies and content.
• Ensure visual strategies and content align with company and customer/client desired outcomes.
• Translate business requirements and engineering specifications into effective user interfaces.
• Assist in the design and development of style sheets and corporate style guides to maintain product design and UI standards.
• Consult with end-users and stakeholders on approaches to content based on goals for usage.
• Remain up to date on the latest design trends and work quickly and effectively to build and iterate on new designs.
• Create visual designs using a variety of tools that balance aesthetics with functionality.
• Develop or may lead the development of UI sketches, wireframes, and prototypes for desktop, tablet, and mobile phone sizes to show user and screen flow, navigation, and interaction detail.
• Create graphical assets and icons for use in user interface products and model graphic designs based on standards and branding.
• Create motion ideation around content creation tools in 2D and 3D.
• Perform 3D modeling and animation to evolve the audience experience given the immediate and long-term goals of the company.
• Define appropriate metrics including engagement, usability, conversion, and other analytics.
• Propose and influence others to experiment with new approaches to design and promote a test-and-learn environment.
• Determine changes required to improve the audience experience.
• Partner with teams across the company to generate, create, and present on-brand UI that drives measurable results.
• Create Trade Show, advertising design assets, PowerPoint Templates, and marketing assets.
• Work closely with teams, and stakeholders to provide design solutions that stay true to the goals of their brief and align with the company brand.

Compensation, Contract, Terms

• USD 26 per hour, paid monthly.
• Contract: Freelance (prestación de servicios) with our company in the US.
• Part time. 22 hours per week, in 9-5 East Coast hours, no overtime
• Start date: Jan 2024

Application process

• Send your CV to lucero.linares@netmidas.com with the subject ‘Senior UI Designer’ and a short text explaining your work history, capabilities, and interests.
• Then you will be invited to take a technical test and a series of interviews and evaluations.
• The interview process will be completed within 10 days of our first conversation!