UX/UI Designer

Part-Time (Contract), Remote (US)

Driver’s Seat is an early-stage startup building a driver-owned data cooperative for gig economy workers. We’re developing tools to solve important problems alongside the workers who represent a crucial and growing part of our economy, which requires thought and care in what we build and how we build it.

As a designer on our team, you’ll have the opportunity to join a company and a product from the start, working across every part of the stack to implement end-to-end features that improve daily work for drivers. This role is a part-time contract position. Compensation is competitive, based on experience and skills.


Responsibilities

  • Create customer-ready visual design, building on existing design patterns, or from scratch. 

  • Design and implement an effective qualitative research program.

  • Design effective lean experiments, analyze results, and interpret data to make decisions.

  • Showcase design ideas through sitemaps, storyboards, and process flows.

  • Define user task flows and interaction models.

  • Create prototypes, wireframes, and mock-ups to demonstrate the functioning and layout of the product.

  • Optimises UI designs and tests for intuitiveness and user-centeredness. 

  • Conduct usability testing to identify gaps in design and see if they can be further improved.

Qualifications

  • Can work effectively at system / ecosystem level.

  • Can identify need for new / novel elements, and can design and style them effectively.

  • Can create a simple, credible brand system.

  • Able to combine patterns with novel solutions in complex domains.

  • Able to create hand-drawn, static, and clickable mockups that are clean and appropriate for internal and external communication.

  • Has basic copywriting skills. Words align with business goals.

  • Has excellent judgement on choice of tool / method for the task at hand. Willing and able to learn new tools.

  • Able to make direct edits to HTML/CSS and has basic comfort with Git. Stays on top of new developments in front-end techniques.

  • Understanding of a range of UI and UX patterns, based on experience implementing patterns on previous projects.

Nice to Have Qualifications

  • Experience working in a small startup environment building end-user facing products.

  • Experience in working with underserved populations (Non-English speaking, low to no tech literacy, and unbanked).

  • Fluency in Spanish.

  • Experience working on gig work platforms.