UI & UX Designer - Travel Development Department (TDD)

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Job Description

Rakuten Travel Product Design team believes design can be a driving force in gracefully transforming the travel experience. We are seeking a talented designer with strong UI design and UX design skills to help drive and develop best-in-class consumer experiences.

Your mission will be envisioning how people experience Rakuten Travel services and bring that vision to life in a way that adds strategic value to Rakuten Travel and the travel industry.

Responsibilities

You are responsible for designs that will be developed into prototypes and products. Roles and responsibilities include developing and translating our ideas into user experiences and interfaces.

You need to be creative, open-minded, and have strong communication skills. You will work closely with the Product Manager and Frontend Engineer to successfully go from early-stage product concepts to launch. You must be responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open and collaborative environment.

• Understand user behavior, pain points, and issues


• Collaborate with Product managers and Visualize UX with wireframes


• Defining design systems


• Collaborate with other designers to keep consistency among products


• Constructing prototypes, and performing user research

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in UI design and UX design


• Experience in mobile application design


• Excellent communication skills


• Experience in usability test to verify the design


• Logical talk skill to explain the background story of deciding design


• Expertise in Figma (or other design tools) and wireframing / prototyping tools

About Rakuten Travel

Rakuten Travel is the No.1 Online Travel Agency in Japan. We provide services in leisure and also business travelers with a variety of accommodation choices to meet all of their travel needs. Rakuten Travel's mission is to provide a quality experience to our travelers.