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UI Designer - Design System job at Oyster

A little about us ?

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere.

In 2021, we grew rapidly, raising over $70 million in both Series A and Series B rounds and increasing our team size by nearly 10x. And we’re just getting started!

As a fully distributed startup, we’ve built an incredibly strong leadership team and employee base across 50+ countries (and counting!). We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work. We live on our platform, and we’re passionate about improving our product every day.

Hiring people internationally is complicated – engineering, legal, finance, operations, and HR processes all interact to make it happen. We’d like to find people who think this is as interesting a challenge as we do.

We're an inclusive and diverse workplace, and welcome applicants from marginalized groups – the world over.

The Role ?‍?

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever.

What you'll be working on

At Oyster HR we are increasing the size of our engineering teams. Every team is dedicated to one area of our product (e.g. Payments & integrations, People operations, etc.). We’re looking for an experienced UI Designer. You’ll be helping our UI and Product design teams to create our first Design System, make sure Engineers and Product Designers adopt our components libraries and continually improve and maintain it.

You’ll be joining our UI Design team. We are a fast growing team of 8 designers in total. We are expecting to grow even more in the future.

What you'll do…

Work in product teams to create Figma flows that range from low-fidelity wireframes to full-fidelity; pixel-ready designs that lead to intuitive user experiences.
Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, as well as new functions and features.
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
Assist in the design and development of the Design System from the design side
Participate in team critiques and reviews, assist in user research, organize customer events and design workshops.
Collaborate closely with engineering to build robust, polished components
Be an advocate for the design system throughout the company, representing the team in product discussions and educating others on how to use the system
Work with designers to ensure they're leveraging the Design System
Have a keen ability to create work under minimal supervision and package and present solutions to the broader creative team. Quickly and superbly.
Collaborate on project briefs and scoping.

What we're looking for ?

At least 3 years of experience as a visual designer, product designer, or similar design-related role, working in a collaborative team and directly with developers for implementation of designs.
At least 1 year of experience of experience working on Design Systems
Portfolio demonstrating a good degree of visual proficiency in use of spacing, typography, colors, user-friendly designs. We won't consider applications without a portfolio.
Strong visual communicator, is able to express concepts and ideas through the means of sketches, drawings, or prototypes.
Expertise in design tools like Figma and similar tools
Strong communication skills that make your process and proposals understandable and actionable to a diverse set of cross-functional audiences
Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
You believe in the importance of consistency, and understand the benefits of building things systematically
An understanding and appreciation of the practice of design iteration by always experimenting, evaluating and learning.
Proven experience of advocacy for the customer and applying user research insights to your design.

Nice to haves:

Demonstrated history of employing research and data to inform user-centric design decisions.
Proficiency and experience in micro interactions, motion graphics and animations.
Fair knowledge of HTML, CSS and a bit of JavaScript - React, storybook is a major plus.
Strong storytelling skills and ability to communicate design rationale.

Working at Oyster ❤️

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Benefits & Compensation ?

Competitive compensation package
Fully flexible hours
40 days of time off, including public holidays
Paid parental leave. We believe that it is healthy and important to take time off to welcome a new family member, and we encourage each employee to take advantage of this benefit!
Work From Home setup budget (see details at Equipment at Oyster)
Wellness and wellbeing support through PlummHealth and Juno
Private Health Insurance (if you want it)
Time off for volunteering