Senior UI/UX Designer (remote)

This role is part of the Whisk product team within the Samsung NEXT Product organization. This role is full-time, remote-based (Europe, Israel, or Russia).

Role Description

We're seeking a UI/UX Designer to join our team full-time designing new features and improving experiences across our range of web products and mobile apps. Whisk has an ambitious roadmap and we have an ongoing cycle of improving and polishing our existing experiences. You’ll be involved in countless UX challenges and there are lots of pixels to push. You’ll use your full range of skills from product design, interaction design, and visual design to build amazing and innovative food experiences for both our end users, our business customers, and our internal team. Additionally, you’ll work with our sales and marketing teams to create beautiful graphics to support their activities. You will work with a globally distributed team - based in the US and Europe.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers, engineering, product management, and research to create impactful products and features.

• Own the design process from problem to solution - from wireframing and storyboarding to interface design, motion design and specification writing.

• Partner with product and engineering teams throughout implementation and QA to ensure product meets design requirements and high-quality standards.

• Work with and manage feedback from multiple stakeholders; provide feedback and design critiques to other designers’ work.

• Create high-quality graphics for various purposes such as website pages, presentations, marketing and social to support various teams such as marketing and sales.

Required Skills:

• 5+ years experience designing across different platforms such as Web, Android, iOS, Email, etc.

• Strong ability to propose thoughtful, user-centered ideas and the ability to iterate and refine those ideas into solid solutions.

• Strong ability to synthesize and present your work.

• Highly refined aesthetic sense and solid understanding of UI/UX/motion in digital products and services. You care about the details. 

• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and thrive in fast paced environments with quick feedback loops.

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. Happily welcome candid feedback and ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to others.

• Highly proficient in Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Invision and similar tools.

• Ability to use data and feedback to iterate and optimize design solutions.

• Self-starter who is intrinsically motivated and owns his/her own success metrics. You have the ability to thrive in ambiguous environments.

• Experience building products based around food is a plus.

About Whisk

Whisk’s mission is to empower people to live happier lives through food. Over the last 7 years, Whisk has built a multi-sided marketplace that connects and delivers value to each member of the network such as Publishers, Retailers, IOT & Health, and Brands. Whisk also has consumer experiences: voice, mobile and web apps (my.whisk.com) for shopping lists, saved recipes, and more planned experiences. 

We are globally distributed and our team lives across the world in different locations – we all work together remotely. Living in a place that makes us happy is important to us. Once or twice a year we hold a company meetup: we decide on location and spend a week working and exploring together. We’ve previously been to Budapest, Prague, Madrid, and Lisbon. Learn more: https://whisk.com/working-at-whisk

What we offer:

• Full-time workload

• Remote work

• Long-term project

• Competitive salary based on your skills

1. Direct impact on end product

Your work will have a tangible impact on all our products and users and we encourage everyone to contribute ideas that improve our user experiences.

2. Work with a talented global team

We have passionate team members across the world and you’ll have the opportunity to work with amazing product leaders, designers, and engineers.

3. Big, exciting challenges

Play a role in shaping the course of Whisk’s ambitious vision with projects and projects that will challenge you.

4. Awareness of company strategy

All employees are free to join our roadmap meeting and speak freely, which makes everybody aware about how their work contributes to company success.

5. Flexibility in work and life

We are globally distributed and believe living in a place that makes us happy is important. We believe and support a healthy work life balance.

6. English language

Practice shows that you will inevitably improve your level of English by working with us and using it in all internal communication.

7. Company retreats

Once or twice a year we hold a company meetup: we decide on location and spend a week working and exploring a city together. We’ve previously been to Budapest, Prague, Madrid, Lisbon, and Florence.

• Strong English skills (written and verbal)
• Applications must include links to visual work examples (portfolio, website, Dribbble, Behance). Applications without will be ignored.