JP: conversational
Job Description
For our office in Tokyo, we are looking for a UI/UX Designer to create amazing mobile first user experiences. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces.
If you are proactive, self-motivated with a positive, curious and can-do attitude, we would like to hear from you!
Experience (junior, mid-level, etc.): Mid-level
Candidates can apply from: Japan only
Visa sponsorship support: Available
Monthly salary: 420,000 to 625,000 JPY (12 months plus 2 bonuses)
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product management and engineering to define and implement innovative solutions for the product direction, visuals and experience
- Execute all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off to engineering
- Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks
- Design, conduct, and analyze the results of experiments to precisely quantify the impact of varying design components
- Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas
- Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to peers and executive level stakeholders
- Conduct UX research and evaluate user feedback
- Establish and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards
- Assist developing and documenting a multi-brand design system
Qualifications
Our requirements:
- Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to mobile user-system interaction
- Proven track record in UI/UX design with focus on app design for more than 3 years
- Demonstrable, recent design skills with a strong portfolio
- Good eye for details, colors and typography
- Good communication skills and team player
- Curiosity to learn and constant self-driven hunger to stay up to date
- Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
- Excellent skills in Figma
- The ideal candidate has already gained knowledge in token based Design Systems
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and other visual design and wire-framing tools
- Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
- Up to date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies for responsive web and app development
- Bachelor in Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, or related
- Basic Knowledge in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for rapid prototyping is a plus
- Programming skills in Flutter for iOS or Android is a plus
Language Requirements:
- Proficiency in English
- Japanese conversational, and ability to create and understand UI in Japanese language
About the Company
zooom productions is a full-service communications agency with offices in Fuschl am See, Austria, Los Angeles, USA and Tokyo, Japan. With a focus on adventure and action sports, lifestyle and imaging, zooom always has an eye out for the unusual and unconventional trends. The portfolio ranges from communication and advertising concepts to web and multimedia design, photo/film productions and content providing. Our clients include renowned global businesses such as Red Bull, Leica, Schöffel, Gasteiner, COOPH and Yodobashi.