Switchback is looking for a motivated, ambitious designer to join our international team. If you like fastpaced, complex challenges complex, and having an impact on the creation and development of an new app from the ground up, do apply!
Responsibilities
- Work as a full-stack designer: you will take projects from conceptual ideas through to UX/UI concepts, final user flows, prototypes and assets delivery
- Be comfortable working across small tasks (such as increasing CTR on a particular screen) as well as working on the product’s key features
- Keep up to date with the latest guidelines and trends for mobile design
- Work in 1 week sprints in a SCRUM/Kanban hybrid, to tight deadlines as an integral part of the development process
- Work collaboratively with the design team - share your ideas and feedback on other designers work, as well as presenting your pixel perfect designs with confidence to founders and developers
- Continuously think about how to improve the experience of our users
Work Experience, Skills & Education
- Extensive experience in designing mobile user interfaces for native mobile apps essential
- Experience of having worked through multiple product build and release cycles (requirements > design > development > release > analysis)
- Experience of creating elegant solutions to complex user experience problems
- Strong visual design skills evidenced by examples of where you’ve created pixel-perfect
consumer products
- Expert level in Sketch
- Experience in creating interactive prototypes (Ideally Principle or Pixate; Proto.io, Invision also desirable)
- Experience creating navigation and page layout/templates, functional design, iconography, look and feel and style guides
- Strong typographic layout skills
- Self-motivated with an ability to hit deadlines and work independently
- Solid communication skills and team-working capability
- An eye for detail
Please submit a portfolio (or link to an online repository) illustrating the above with your application
About Us
Switchback is an exciting geo-targeted social networking app that enables people to create meaningful relationships during their daily commute. With an advanced algorithm that matches people on key interest categories, Switchback enables them to connect/meet offline by attending recommended local events based on their common interests. Unlike other competitor apps, we aim to eliminate the number of fake profiles with the use of blockchain technology.