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Job Description
UP.Labs is looking for an experienced, lead designer for a contract role who can drive design strategy and execution. You are someone who is familiar with SaaS software life cycle, can adapt quickly with a small, collaborative team, and thrives on designing and iterating B2B and consumer products. You have significant experience conceptualizing ideas and quickly moving from proof-of-concept to MVP to Alpha, and beyond.
In this role you will :
- From conceptual design to deliverables : move fluidly between high-level concepting, wireframes, product design, user-interface, and interaction design, visual design, storytelling, and prototyping
- Oversee quantitative and qualitative user research that drives design decisions and roadmap
- Participate in concept sessions leveraging ethnographic research and design thinking
- Introduce trends and exemplars across a variety of emerging technologies
- Balance customer frictions and needs with our client’s business goals, market viability, and technical feasibility
- Deliver concepts, personas, user journeys, storyboards, system maps, user flows, wireframes, visual design comps, and prototypes with Figma, Adobe CS, InVision, and other tools
- Collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams including management consultants, product managers, engineers, marketers, and corporate executives
- Communicate the product’s vision and articulate design decisions and trade-offs to partners and clients, both verbally and visually
- Partner with engineering to ensure designs are properly implemented
- Work within and continue to evolve our design system
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What You’ll Get :
UP.Labs Summary :
We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.
Our platform is unique in three ways :
We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle : from ideation to minimum viable product build - and beyond.
Timeframe : 3-4 months, with the potential to extend
Location : SF Bay Area
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