Job Description

Desty is looking for an experienced UI / UX Designer who excels at user-centric product design to help making the future of social commerce. This is a great opportunity to join our cross-board team responsible for products that is connecting Southeast Asian social sellers and buyers. You’ll be working with passionate product managers, UX/UI designers, and engineering team - all focused on building a world class application. We are looking for truly awesome, unbelievably talented creators to join us.

Responsibilities:

General Design

1. Create usable, beautiful and intuitive interface designs that will make users engagement rate is optimized.
2. Transform ideas into creative, simple and responsive designs under technology and time constraints, working closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Customer Success.
3. Contribute to not just UI design, but also to our UX practice when needed.

User Centered Design

Advocating for user-centered visual design, focus on the user's experience, being proactive about investing in last-mile refinement and polish.

Cross-Platform Design

Deliver compelling, approachable and intuitive cross-platform user experiences as we build our industry leading product. This experience will have desktop, mobile & tablet variants - you will work in partnership with the design and engineering team to implement UI design system and ensure visual consistency across all products.

Data-Driven Design

Understand and incorporate user feedback and business requirements into elegant design solutions based on data, trends, and industry best practices.

Design System

Add to our UI design system and keep it up to date, document and maintain UI design specifications and templates.

Your Skill Set:

• Have a passion for creating visual languages that communicate the essence of the brand across a product ecosystem.
• Have hands-on experience creating visually appealing, pixel-perfect designs across complex web and mobile interfaces.
• Have a strong foundation of visual interface design including typography, iconography, color theory, illustration, and visual design systems – taking problems from concept to implementation quickly and iteratively.
• Be a design thinker - go beyond the visuals to truly understand the problem at hand. Have an understanding of the end-to-end UX design process.
• Have a strong eye for detail, craft and consistency.
• Ability to strongly articulate your design work and rationale.
• Appreciate critical feedback – you will give it, receive it and seek it out.
• Be motivated by data – whether it’s analyzing qualitative data to find a spark of insight or creating variations of a design for an A/B test – you balance your instincts with data outcomes.
• Be an accountable, self-starter with good time-management and a bias for action – able to work through ambiguity, deadline pressures and manage multiple projects at once.
• Be a source of inspiration and guidance for the entire Design team on the evolution of visual trends, tools and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience on a design team working on visual interface design and design systems with a track record of successfully shipping products.
• Proficient with Figma or Sketch (HTML, CSS and JS knowledge would be advantageous but not essential).
• Portfolio showcasing examples of visual design work and user-centered design thinking.
• English is our basic communication tool.