Headquarters: Kansas City
URL: https://zaarly.com

Silky soft-skills ❤️

• You're Experienced: You have worked on consumer-facing applications serving thousands of users, and for long enough to have encountered successes and failures
• You're Really Good: Your are obsessed with execution – your UX work is straight-forward and your UI implementation is 🔥
• You're Organized: You'd rather work within a system than in the wilderness – maybe you've even helped build a design system or two
• You're Professional: You can take a roughly scoped project and, leading one or two back-end developers, can execute
• You're Wise: You have experience incorporating feedback and data into your work – you even feel a little lost without those things
• You're Adaptable: You can responsibly adjust course or cut scope if new information exposes road-blocks in your way
• You're Empathetic: You fight for the user and have war stories to tell – let's hear some! 🍿

Cold hard-skills  🧠

• Able to create production-ready visual design from scratch
• Able to articulate reasons for design decisions
• Can work effectively across web and mobile (with an understanding of basic platform conventions)
• Experience working daily in applications like Sketch, Figma, Principle, and the like
• Has created or contributed to a style guide for a complex website
• ✨Bonus: Experience making animations with After Effects, Lottie, etc.
• ✨Bonus: Has contributed color palettes, iconography, and/or typography to a design system

• Can discern when new or innovative elements are necessary or ideal and can design and style them effectively.
• Experience working with version control (we use Git)
• Can work happily outside of frameworks like React or Bootstrap
• ✨Bonus: Has contributed UI components and/or patterns to a design system.
• ✨Bonus: Has worked on a rails project before
• ✨Bonus: Experience writing presentational JS
• 🤯Bonus: Experience with iOS and/or Android development WAT U R A UNICORN 🦄

• Able to envision and illustrate complex user flows at a system or ecosystem level
• Understanding of basic psychological principles that impact a user’s experience with our products
• Ability to effectively prioritize an MVP based on the user’s needs, technical constraints, and business goals

To apply: https://zaarly.homerun.co/product-designer