Job Description
Are you someone that wants to bring people together? Someone who thrives on the balance of business goals and users' needs? Are you looking to work with people who see failures as growth opportunities? We have good news for you! Join us on an adventure of designing the future of social participatory experience for Filipinos all around the world here at kumu.
The bread and butter of the UX Engineering team is to collaborate with devs and designers to solve problems, add new components and features, fix issues, and build an internal design language and system. We're offering a playground to experiment and ship exceptional solutions to a diverse set of problems. Your main objective will be crafting user-centric products and experiences, into - functional - beautiful and delightful interfaces as well as micro-interactions.
Product managers, developers, product designers, and UX writers will be your companions during this ride. Best yet, you’ll have the opportunity to flex your solid design skills, getting us even closer to our ultimate goal of designing a user-experience journey with a smooth and intuitive interaction experience. This work impacts the millions of Kumu users who use our app daily, and the thousands of creators whose livelihood depends on it.
What You Will Do
- Contribute to the roadmap and strategic level of interaction designers function.
- Work closely with product designers under the designated steam/product to execute complex features or product wireframes, and follow the predefined process that set by the product team.
- Effectively present ideas and design rationale based on the product requirements.
- Deliver excellent quality the look and feel of a wireframe into the hi-fidelity user interface using our design system.
- Understand the data or research insight into the design decisions to solve complex problem.
- Consistently to evolving, maintain, adopt, involvement in the the design system and advocate for the use of Asphalt design system.
- Work closely with front-end engineers and product designer to deliver design specifications under supervision of design lead.
- Delivers advanced prototype based on the product requirement with good functionality for design review and usability testing purpose.
Minimum Qualifications
What You Will Need
- At least 3-7 years of experience in product design industry.
- Master of craftsperson in the interaction design discipline within the human-centered design methodologies, usability heuristics, visual hierarchy.
- Expert on how computers and humans interact, and master the basics such as color, space, typography, hierarchy, and paddings and grids.
- Proficient in interaction design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Protopie, and/or other industry design and prototyping tools.
- Expert on with the platform that you are building such as mobile app, website.
- Expert on the fundamentals of design systems and how it works at scale.
- Attention to details and ability to structure design system/components for an easy-handoff to a large team of engineers.
- Excellent organizational, project management, collaborative teamwork with wide range or stakeholders.
About the Team
Our kumu UI/UX Design team is a small family of 6 designers (and growing!) who create products and services with one goal in mind: to design products that our users love. As with all startups, we launch, learn, and iterate quickly. We conduct design reviews weekly for our core product pillars and move FAST! In our free time, we love to binge watch anime and k-dramas, hang out with our cats, and hang out in virtual worlds (what’s up gather.townizens!)
Perks and Benefits
- Work from Home
- Life Insurance
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Flexitime
- Performance Bonus
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Vacation Leave
Jobs Summary
- Job Level
- Mid-Senior Level / Manager
- Job Category
- IT and Software
- Educational Requirement
- Bachelor's degree graduate
- Recruiter response to application
- Once in a while
- Office Address
- Robinsons Cybergate Tower 3, Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines