UX/UI Designer

at Braintrust
Location Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic of
Date Posted May 15, 2024
Category Engineering
IT / Information Technology
Web Design & Development
Job Type Full-time
Currency TZS

Description

About the job

Job Description

  • Please DO NOT reach out to hiring managers or employees of Digital Fuel Capital outside of Braintrust. Applicants reaching out to us directly will not receive a response and will automatically be disqualified from the process*

Our Company (Digital Fuel Capital)

Digital Fuel Capital is a leading private equity investor in e-commerce businesses. Our portfolio covers e-commerce brands in the home improvement/decor, apparel, and the ticketing space. Some of our brands include Taylor Stitch, TIMEX, JAXXON, and Ledge Loungers.

We know what it takes to make an e-commerce business scale efficiently and we offer support and expertise across marketing, talent acquisition, analytics, and product management to help our brands reach their goals.

You will be assisting the Product & Technology team at DFC. Our team acts as an internal agency that integrates within our companies to work directly with stakeholders and product leaders.

We’re a team that values the best idea, regardless who it comes from. We value the eagerness to learn, thoughtfulness, passion, kindness, and an analytical mind to use data to solve problems.

Your Role

Responsibilities (i.e. day-to-day): You will be designing website improvements that will be A/B tested and implemented across our multiple eCommerce brands.

Your primary responsibilities include:

  • Translate business objectives and creative briefs into design solutions.
  • Lead and manage the process for your designs.
  • Quickly iterate and offer versions of designs based off feedback.
  • Productionize existing designs for hand-off to developers.

Secondary responsibilities include:

  • Establish and maintain style guides and content libraries.
  • Conducting UX audits on our portfolio websites to identify opportunities to improve.
  • Perform QA on designs after the initial development phase, communicate bugs, and sign-off that design and functionality are as intended.

You will be collaborating with our Sr. UX/UI Designer.

Skills

Required Skills

  • 2+ years of full-time experience working as a UX/UI designer for a web or mobile property
  • Proficient with Figma
  • Proficient with design tools, including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, or other similar tools
  • Ability to work quickly and independently, with a strong attention to detail
  • Ability to think critically to create hypothesis driven design solutions based on real business problems
  • Strong organization and communication skills
  • Portfolio with demonstrated work
  • Ability to work irregular hours (e.g. 10 hours one week, 8 the next, 15 the next, etc.)

Preferred Skills

  • Experience designing in an A/B testing process using tools such as Optimizely, Google Optimize, Monetate or other similar tools
  • Strong design aesthetic
  • Familiarity with web analytics platforms (Google Analytics)
  • Ability to identify key stakeholders
  • Fluency in digital KPIs
  • Jira or similar project management system
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