The design team at Upsales is growing and we are looking for a product designer to join our team. To boost our combined knowledge at this point, we believe that your profile is weighted towards UX and research.
A designer at Upsales
We tend to think about the designer role kind of like a full-stack developer and believe our designers should master both the fieldwork of UX and the nitty-gritty pixel-perfect UI that combined is used to solve problems and enables a great workday for our users. We are a small agile team that makes a huge impact on thousands of users.
Designing for Upsales
The days of traditional CRM’s are history, at Upsales we create a sales coach that boosts our user’s performance by AI recommendations and effective sales tools. Your goal is to increase our user’s performance in their different roles. Our users come from different industries, with individual challenges, in different roles. Understanding these is key, and it’s what makes Upsales a service loved by salespeople.
What you will do
- Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from concept to launch in partnership with product managers, developers, and stakeholders
- Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into something useful and valuable for our users
- Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of Upsales products
- Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms (browser, iOS & Android)
- Define, craft, and evolve designs within Upsales visual systems
- Interview customers and analyze data to find and solve problems
- UI copywriting: We find that the words in your design are just as important as the rest of the UI
Tools you need to master
- UI design tools like Sketch, etc
- Prototyping tools like Marvelapp, etc
Minimum experience
- 4+ years of experience building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products that encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms
- Interaction Designs skills defining how an experience should behave based on understanding people’s needs
- Experience using prototyping skills to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work
- Visual Design skills with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function
- Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking while developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact on people and the company
- Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts
- Fluent English level
- Prior experience of working in agile teams
Preferred experience
- Experience in facilitating and structuring user feedback during the discovery process
- Building user data prior for UX research purposes
- Experience in facilitating discovery interviews with customers
- Experience in working with sales and/or marketing-centered products or services