Jr. UX Designer
As Travelstride’s lead UX Designer, you will work with the founder, product manager and a team of developers to create and improve engaging and satisfying user experiences with new platform features for both travelers and travel companies. As the only full-time designer at this early-stage company, you will be responsible for the complete user experience as well as the look and feel of our products. You will help develop new ideas through research and testing.
You are both a strategic thinker and a tactical doer - eager to roll up your sleeves and do all design work as necessary for both the core product and also to support marketing and other company initiatives
To thrive in this role, you would possess a unique blend of UX, design, business, and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality with a ‘get it done’ attitude.
Does lower base salary, big challenges, bigger impact, talented colleagues, high equity and financial bonus upside, and fun team environment sound good for you? Read on!
On our team, you will:
Create beautiful web pages and experiences that delight users and achieve business goals
Design wireframes and pixel perfect hifi designs to meet business needs balancing UX, SEO, CRO and other business goals
Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look
Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product manager and engineers
Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemap
Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
Identify and troubleshoot UX problems
Proactively speak with users directly and via surveys and other tools to understand evolving needs and suggest future changes and opportunities
Qualifications
Requirements:
Have 1 to 3 years of design experience
Thrive in a fast-paced results-driven environment with varied responsibilities and challenging assignments that would strike fear into the hearts of average designers
Rock design tools like Figma
Communicate ideas easily verbally and in writing with engineers and marketing
Prefer to experiment with new designs and use data to drive decisions rather than view as an art project
Listen to customers, partners, and teammates, and respond well to feedback
Embrace Web Usability, User-Centered Design, & Agile methodologies
Feel passionate that ‘success is in the details as much as in the ‘big picture’
Love managing multiple projects simultaneously and hit deadlines, using the 80/20 rule as your mantra
Are known to friends and colleagues as cheerful, with a good sense of humor and a positive attitude
Enthusiastically and proactively help beyond the bounds of your day to day role
Ship quickly and adjust your process to fit the needs of an early-stage startup, valuing shipping a good solution now over a great solution several weeks from now.
In a perfect world, you would...
Have experience in consumer marketplaces, e-commerce or other transaction-oriented consumer web apps preferred
Know SEO and how to balance it with UX
Have previously thrived in a true early startup experience previously (from Bootstrap to Series B)
Understand and have helped design for online niche communities and/or gaming products
Additional Information
Preference for those who can work in Travelstride’s Austin office 2 days per week.
Why work with us? The benefits:
Seed-funded startup comp package with generous stock options and rapid increase potential
$4,000 annual vacation credits through our travel partners
Fun, driven, cohesive coworkers and team spirit - Regular company lunches and happy hours plus quarterly team outings & parties
Meaningful work - you are helping more people travel internationally, and helping our global tour operator partners thrive as sustainable ventures
The ability to make a major impact as an early team member at a growing startup with huge market size and impressive traction