UI/UX Designer

Job Description

MEET THE MEMBRAIN TEAM

And to understand our company culture a little more, you’re welcome to read blog posts written by our CEO, George Brontén, here, here and here.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our customers are using Membrain to improve their sales results, scale their businesses, and overcome sales challenges. The UI/UX Designer role at Membrain, therefore, plays a critical part in our company’s product development 🍍. You will join an awesome Product team of seven and collaborate closely with our Sales, Customer Success and Marketing teams.

We believe the key to thriving as a designer at Membrain is curiosity, drive and being able to challenge the norm to create new ways forward. You enjoy a balanced combination of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. You are passionate about design and constantly want to improve. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain a design system that defines the visual and interactive elements of the product
• Develop UI mockups and prototypes that illustrate the user flow, functionality, and features of the product
• Continuously evaluate and evolve the product's UI design and make improvements based on user feedback and business needs
• Identify and troubleshoot UX issues
• Effectively communicate design decisions, rationale, and concepts to stakeholders, including senior leadership, developers, and other designers
• Adhere to, and continually work to improve style standards on typography, color palette, margins, and images among others
• Enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty and delight customers by improving the user experience including ease of use, simplicity, and accessibility
• Collaborate with our Customer Success, Marketing and Development Teams to ensure the product design aligns with the technical and business requirements
• Maintain our competitive advantage by creating intuitive and attractive user interfaces that align with the product branding and user expectations

OUTPUT OF YOUR WORK

• Illustrating design ideas using conceptual descriptions, storyboards, process flows and similar
• Wireframes, prototypes, interactive mockups
• Illustrations and iconography
• Interface animations & transitions
• UI designs and final assets for implementation

ABOUT YOU

YOU ARE

• Highly creative with the ability to understand complex problems and systems and find new and elegant solutions
• Excited about experimenting with various UX and UI patterns as well as the small, but delightful UI details
• Attentive to detail (did you notice the pineapple?) and have an eye for the highest quality of design work
• Highly proficient in tools like Figma, Photoshop and AfterEffects
• Well-organized with the ability to work independently and with a team
• Already based at a commuting distance from Stockholm, Sweden

YOU HAVE

• Experience working in an agile development environment with a methodology such as Scrum, or similar
• Good understanding of HTML, CSS and web design fundamentals
• Strong ability to communicate effectively in English and Swedish (verbally and in writing)
• Experience in creating and/or building on a scalable design system
• Strong UI/UX portfolio
• 3 years of relevant experience, preferably working in-house
• Other practical experiences in design, ranging from web design to photography, from UX, copywriting, to video production and motion design

WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE

After 30 days, you will:

• Learn the foundation of why Membrain exists and how we serve our customers
• Have a good grasp of how Membrain works as a product
• Become familiar with the tools and platforms we use
• Developing your first mockups and prototypes

After 90 days, you will:

• Explain to others what Membrain does and how it works
• Actively contribute to the product development
• Seeing your designs in the product
• Have had contact with all team members

After a year, you will:

• Know Membrain inside and out
• Connect the dots to ensure coherence across the product
• Solve complex challenges with elegant solutions that are sustainable and scalable
• Become a role model for new hires and help the team grow
• Continually be learning about all things needed to stay on top of your game