Digital Product Designer

  • Full-time

Company Description

NewsCred is the world’s leading content marketing platform. We’re powering marketing technology for the future – helping brands transform the way they connect with people, build brand love, and win more customers. Our cutting-edge technology enables top brands such as Pepsi, Pfizer, Dell, Diageo, and Spotify to create amazing content experiences with simplicity, speed, and global scale.

Every day, across three offices, more than 200 brilliant people come to work at NewsCred, and commit their talents, passions, time, and energy to shape the future of an industry. We love working with incredibly talented people. We love helping our clients win. We love inventing new products. We love being trailblazers in a new category. And we are proud of the fact that each year we pay millions of dollars to help inspire and employ the next generation of great journalists, artists, and creators. 

We're not making small changes; we're building technology to completely rethink how people create, consume, and share their stories with the world.

Job Description

Overview

You will be involved in every aspect of product development, from initial brainstorming to user testing before and after launch. You will employ a wide range of skills across interaction design, visual design, prototyping and usability testing. You have an opinionated perspective on application UI/UX and understand how to go from great ideas to production-ready scaffolds.  

Who you are

  • You love to find out about new technology and products
  • You get excited about solving problems for customers through great design!
  • You believe in simplicity: Good design is invisible.
  • You can collaborate well with other designers and love brainstorming ideas
  • You are always thinking of ways to optimize your designs and your code equally
  • You’re not afraid to dive into Terminal or Command Line

Responsibilities

  • Conceptualizing, wireframe, design and execute in code new and existing features for our products
  • Design elegant and intuitive user flows and interactions for NewsCred’s products
  • Run user tests, incorporating insights and feedback throughout the product development process
  • Contribute to strategic decisions with the product and executive teams
  • Give and solicit feedback from our other designers with the aim of producing the highest quality work

Qualifications

  • At least 3-5 years designing and prototyping web interfaces
  • You are a Photoshop and Illustrator guru and love to dive into other creative applications at time
  • Wireframing / Concept skills a must (Your process is your own; you get to decide which tools you use for this)
  • Extremely Strong knowledge of HTML/CSS and Sass. Javascript knowledge is a plus
  • Strong knowledge of typography, layout and color theory
  • Are up-to-date on current design and product trends and know when to embrace them
  • Academic background in Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field (or substantial relevant experience)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.