Junior UI Designer at Yoyo

Job Description

As a rockstar addition to our product design team, you are interested in both the functional and user interface side of product design, as well as enthusiastic about working with others towards building intuitive digital products. Knowledge of what is great vs. good design as well as staying up to date with best in global design trends excites you. As a self-starter and team player, you enjoy collaborating on the ideation of product design. You are both confident in presenting your ideas while open to exploring stakeholders’ feedback. Taking ownership and initiative is something you do naturally – you can also take direction well and be guided by others. Although we always do our best to please our customers, you are able to balance this with what is also best for the business, its partners, our engineering platforms, and the product.

You will apply your passion for crafting engaging user interfaces and experiences through design thinking, concept ideation, prototyping, and iterating.

The products that you will be working on will be SAAS products; customer-facing apps, and understand how they form part of the entire suite of products. Knowledge of iOS, Android and mobile / responsive best practices is crucial. You should be excited about delivering adaptive, clean, and creative solutions to complex design challenges.

Job Responsibilities

• Designing for mobile apps and web products – specialising in crafting UI elements, working within a design system, and adapting SAAS mobile products to align with our clients’ branding and business requirements.

• Working within a team – including business stakeholders, product managers, product designers, front and back-end developers / engineers.

• Produce (when required) wireframes and any other documentation to show your design thinking around the products you work on.

• Testing your design thinking and products during the life cycle of the project through A/B testing, and workshopping with team members.

• Communicate your thinking and ideas clearly to both internal and external stakeholders.

• Be flexible and collaborative around other team members’ design thinking and ideas.

• Consistently live out, act, work, and exhibit behaviours aligned to and congruent with company values.

Knowledge, Skills & Aptitudes 

• 2 - 5 years industry experience (digital design background).

• Knowledge of UI software (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc).

• Knowledge of Adobe suite, PSD, InDesign, Illustrator.

• Knowledge of prototyping software (Figma, Zeplin, Balsamiq, Axure, InVision or similar).

• Ability to multi-task, context switch, manage time well and respond to time constraints accordingly.

• Be able to communicate and articulate design decisions to the team and stakeholders.

• Team player who can also work on their own initiative.

• Adaptability, creativity and innovation, initiative, resilience, consideration, strategic, analytical ,and intuitive.

Additional Information

Company Values:

• Be passionate: Spiral up, be positive, bring momentum, and energy to those around you.

• Be an owner: Be accountable and take responsibility. Find solutions, learn from your mistakes and own tasks to completion.

• Be world class at speed: Delivering world leading solutions at speed

• Be curious and creative: Constantly innovating, exploring, learning, stretching yourself, pushing the boundaries and thinking out of the box.

• Be a team player: Leave ego at the door, be teachable, engaged, inclusive, and transparent. Bring the best of yourself and the best out of others, rallying behind a larger team mission.