Job Description

Take high level product ideas from conception through execution, across web and mobile. We are a small team so you'll work across a wide range of areas - product strategy, user research, and UX/UI design in particular. Take joint ownership of metrics and strategy with the product team, and work collaboratively with engineering and operations to achieve goals

Skills

• Mastery of the basic principles of UX and visual design
• Mastery in design tools like Figma or Sketch
• Experience with planning and conducting user research
• A passion for hard problems and helping people
• Empathy with customers, and a strong desire to understand them
• Strong desire to work on a small team where you'll be involved in almost every facet of our product planning + execution process

About the Company:

Instawork is a marketplace where local businesses and talent find each other. We make it easy for businesses to find quality hourly workers on demand.

Job Description

Take high level product ideas from conception to pixel-perfect designs, working with another designer, product manager and engineers. Actively be involved in defining product strategy by bringing your empathy and curiosity to the table, supported by user research and data. Take joint ownership of metrics with the product team and conceptualize and execute ideas to achieve the goal. Design flows and experiences that are incredibly simple and elegant, across our web and mobile products, Collaborating cross-functionally with product marketing, ops, sales, customer support, and engineering and continuously seek their feedback in your design process. Work extremely closely with engineers to ensure a high-quality design implementation and user experience. Give and solicit feedback from other designers and product managers in order to continually raise our bar for quality and moving fast.

Skills

• 4+ years of experience in an individual contributor role, shipping products on desktop or mobile
• An innate product design sensibility – you know a great product when you see it, and you can passionately talk about why it's great
• Empathy with customers, and a strong desire to understand them
• Strong communication skills
• Mastery of the basic principles of visual design, and typography
• Mastery in design tools like Sketch and Figma
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment
• The desire to work on a small team where there's always too much to do and too little time, and make the best possible use of that time
• A strong online portfolio showcasing your best work

About the Company:

Instawork is a marketplace for local jobs. We make it easy for small and medium sized businesses to hire quality workers quickly. We source, qualify, and match candidates for businesses, and help candidates find relevant, local jobs.