Ui/Ux Designer Jobs

**** This position is located in our Austin office (hybrid schedule: Mon-Thurs in office; Fri is work from home). *****

Apty - Enterprise Software Adoption at scale.

Apty is a digital platform that accelerates software adoption and goes beyond UI walkthroughs and tooltips to focus on business processes, outcomes, and employee productivity. The proactive digital adoption platform works with any web-based application to track usage, provide on-screen help, and improve overall adoption. Apty's data engine analyzes user data and provides actionable insights so you can improve efficiency at an unprecedented scale. Apty also functions as an innovative and intelligent platform to provide users with real-time guidance while navigating through web applications. Apty also helps increase employee self-sufficiency and reduce the load on tech support. Apty set sail with a mission to rescue companies stranded when justifying tech ROI and help them gain real, measurable business value when implementing leading technology solutions.

Key responsibilities:

The UX/UI Designer is responsible for working in partnership with the product team (including business owners, product management, business architecture, engineering, and co-designers) to solve complex user experience problems and articulate clear design requirements in a human-centered framework:

• Create prototype concepts for communication with the business, to aid in sales demos, development, and usability studies.
• Translate research insights into product ideas and solutions.
• Present, articulate, and sell design ideas and recommendations to product management and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with other UX designers to translate requirements for use by Engineering colleagues.
• Understand and incorporate complex technical and business requirements into elegant design decisions based on data, trends, and industry best practices.
• Participate in user research activities such as user interviews, surveys, usability studies, Competitive Analysis, and Market Research.
• Represent the voice of the user(s) in business and product conversations and decisions.
• Design style guides, user flows, wireframes, and pixel-perfect high-fidelity mockups at a high level and build out refined details.

UX & Design Team Member Responsibilities

• Document and maintain user interface design specifications and templates.
• Contribute to team standards for "what is good experience design" and design quality, including keeping our UI design pattern library up to date.
• Be a valued, respected, and respectful representative of the User Experience & Design team.
• Work in partnership with the engineering team to implement UI patterns and ensure visual consistency across all products and demos.

Qualifications

• Experience creating process flows, user flows, prototypes, highly detailed wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups for early-stage ideas and complex web (enterprise and mobile preferred) applications.
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule (4 days a week) in our Austin office
• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in one of the creative arts, Digital Media, Human and Computer Interaction, Design Thinking, or equivalent work experience.
• Effective communication of design decisions to team members, product managers, and clients.
• Eagerness to learn and desire for feedback and continuously improving their design output.
• B2B SaaS experience is a must
• Appreciation of technical limits, scope, timeline, and budget, as needed constraints for successful design.
• Core design skills: information architecture, UX documentation, visual communication, and hierarchy.
• Portfolio of work that showcases examples of industry-standard user experience design work as well as the ability to design for complex business systems.
• 2-5 years experience at an agency, product company, or startup in a design role

Preferred Skills

• Ability to sketch and generate big-picture ideas for early-stage UX work.
• Clear passion and enthusiasm for learning and pursuing.
• An understanding of what makes an experience good or bad is critical; the ability to think through user problems translates into reasonable solution designs.
• Ability to handle working on multiple projects at the same time.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to seek opportunities to solve problems in unusual and innovative ways.
• Experience working with remote team members in different time zones.
• Self-starter with strong time management skills and the ability to be self-directed.
• Knowledge of the Agile software development process.
• Experience using tools such as Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Illustrator, Photoshop, InVision or similar software for wireframing and light prototyping.
• Ability to effectively communicate with product managers/architects/developers/engineers.
• Experience designing from a UI design pattern library.

Apty Inc is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued but prioritized. We're proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.