DigitalUI Designer for a Social Impact Focused Design Agency
DigitalUI Designer for a Social Impact Focused Design Agency
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Job Description
Job description
Radish Lab is a purposedriven creative agency shaping stories and sharpening brands for organizations improving the world. Right now were working with organizations developing innovative approaches to extreme poverty creating a better world for refugees and fighting climate change. We specialize in web design strategy and branding.
We are looking for a Digital/UI Designer with a minimum of 6 years of professional experience and an excellent eye for design detail and user experience to join our growing team.
About You
You are passionate about helping to create a just and equitable world. Youre comfortable working within an iterative and collaborative process. You have an intentional holistic and systemsthinking approach to your work. Youre equally energized creating and crafting narratives around design concepts as well as providing the polishing details to design going out the door. Youve got ideas you find inspiration around you and youve got your finger on the pulse of whats awesome in design right now. Youre interested in a longer trajectory of learning and growing within an agency. Plus youve got a sense of humor.
What Youll Do
Design is at the core of the Radish Lab product. As a designer you will contribute to a variety of purposedriven projects ranging from largescale consumerfacing websites to branding and collateral work to campaigns under the management of our Design Director with feedback and support from our Creative Director.
Location
Radish Lab is a remote agency. For this position you must be within 3 hours of the EST timezone. At least 6 of your working hours must be within the hours of 7AM and 8PM EST. We do not offer sponsorship at this time.
About Radish
Radish Lab launched in 2012 to work on projects we believe in with clients we click with. And today were still invested in much more than just the endproduct. We care about the people we work with and about the people our work impacts. Using collaboration compassion and creativity to solve problems at any scale we deliver work that blends usability aesthetics and ethics.
In our approach to working with clients we are committed to working: With empathy not ego. With them not for them. With integrity not just ideas.
Our Values
Radish Lab has five core values and we expect you to share them.
EMPATHY helps us better understand what a projects goals might really be why a clients work is so vital to the people they serve and why a coworker might be having a bad day.
CURIOSITY enables us to ask better questions keeps us humble and nurtures an adventurous spirit.
KINDNESS sounds easy like holding the door open for someone but we try and hold ourselves to a higher bar. If you hold the door open for someone then support a system that oppresses them is that truly kind
DIVERSITY. Asking who isnt at the table is vital. Our work is better when we have a diverse team client contacts and stakeholders.
CAMARADERIE. Having genuinely good working relationships with our colleagues makes our days more enjoyable and makes our work better.
Selected Clients
The New York Community Trust Womens Refugee Commission (RED) The Global Fund to Fight Aids American Cancer Society UNICEF and BRAC.
B Corp
Radish Lab is a certified B Corp which means were held accountable for meeting the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance transparency and accountability.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Radish Lab is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race color creed sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age religion national origin citizenship status disability ancestry marital status veteran status medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local state or federal laws.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or the interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
No recruiters please.
Job requirements
Requirements
Minimum of 6 years of professional experience preferably in an agency
Expertlevel Figma skills including components variables styles and autolayout
Strong understanding of design systems
Experience collaborating with strategists userexperience designers and developers
Experience handing off final products to developers
We are only considering applicants within 3 hours of the EST timezone
See below for more requirements and nicetohaves
Responsibilities
Concept
Conduct design research and collect references based on a brief and bring extra ideas to the table from your research.
Concept solutions from a brief that apply unique and creative thinking.
Craft a narrative and provide rationale around creative decisions that can be presented written or orally with supporting visuals to teammates and to external teams with assistance.
Filter and incorporate creative feedback
Craft
Create thorough polished and thoughtful design prototypes that build on the agreed creative direction and use best practices including rules of typography layout and accessible web design.
Use art direction basic interaction and copy editing skills to create mockups and/or suggest improvements.
Use systems thinking to identify outside factors unknowns technical constraints future maintainability and edge cases that can impact a user interface.
Prepare productionready files with annotations and specifications outlined in Radishs design process.
Provide review on design projects including creative QA for web press checks and answering technical questions.
Occasionally present concepts to clients when necessary.
Strong attention to detail (You catch the missing period in the mockup.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (You ask good questions early.
Collaboration
Take direction from teammates regarding organizing and prioritizing work on a weekly basis.
Be self sufficient and accountable in daily tasks and time management and ask for help when roadblocks and challenges arise.
Ask questions to gain clarity and understanding of a project.
Participate in giving actionable design feedback in internal meetings and reviews that builds on the brief and follows best practices.
A demonstrated commitment to social change in a professional or personal context.
A genuine desire to work with a team of kind empathetic and curious people looking to create thoughtful and meaningful work while also having fun.
Nice to Have
Experience working with nonprofits on a small team or prior agency work is preferred but not a requirement.
Experience presenting to stakeholders or clients
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