Senior UI/UX Designer

at  Perry Street Software

ABOUT PSS

Perry Street Software is Jack’d, SCRUFF & BKDR. We are two of the world’s largest gay, bi, trans and queer social dating apps on iOS and Android. Our brands reach more than 30 million members worldwide so members can connect, meet and express themselves on a platform that prioritizes privacy, security, and community. Our company puts user privacy first, and doesn’t use third-party ad networks or tracking software.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Perry Street Software is hiring a UI/UX Designer for the Scruff and Jack’d app team. You’ll work with product managers to conceptualize and grow our products, design wireframes, test concepts with users, translate your findings into proposals, host workshops, influence strategy, craft visual mock-ups, and produce engineering ready designs and prototypes for new features.
As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you’ll help champion an empathy-driven, user-first mentality across the company that both elevates our level of product design and works to achieve our company goals.

QUALITIES AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of product design, UI/UX design, visual design, or equivalent experience including 2-3 years in a consumer-facing product design role in the native mobile space.
• A bachelor’s degree or any combination of education, training, and experience in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Portfolio that demonstrates evidence of launching software at scale in a fast-paced product organization across multiple markets.
• Experience developing or contributing to a design system, such as a HIG, for a given app or company.
• Proficient in Figma, including high-fidelity prototyping and component libraries.
• Ability to work independently to explore concepts from beginning to end, yet also crave healthy feedback loops with your ideas.
• Deep organization and execution skills, especially in collaboration with multiple stakeholders, articulating high-level team goals and connecting your work to larger team or company initiatives.
• Motivated to building a quantitative and data-based decision-making culture
• Experience crafting qualitative and quantitative user tests including sharing prototypes with users and iterating based on user signal.
• Familiarity with agile teams and methodologies.
  Perry Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, disability, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, citizenship, age, military or veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
  All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
  Salary: $65,000-$110,000

• Scope — help scope projects, tasks, and deliverables for a project.
• Process — apply user-centered design practices from project start to finish.
• Understand — evaluate ongoing user feedback and insights and apply these findings to our ongoing projects.
• Research — plan, set up, and run user testing and research, then report back insights and recommendations.
• Align — Host workshops remotely and in-person to align stakeholders and generate ideas.
• Design — craft clear and strategic presentations and deliver pixel perfect UI/UX designs for that elevate our user experience
• Iterate — continually improve our products and designs while prioritizing user impact against engineering lift.
• Negotiate — pair with engineers to create solutions that are feasible without compromising on design and usability.