Web / Brand Designer

Mapbox helps businesses and developers create a unique mapping and navigation experience on any device. Our goal is to navigate people, packages, and vehicles everywhere.
This post is written by me - Slava Fedosenko, manager of the Web Design team. We design and develop the mapbox.com website and we are dealing with some other design-related issues. We are part of the Marketing department and in many ways we are the ones who shape the Mapbox brand. At the moment, the team consists of me, UX/UI designer, motion graphics designer, and two developers.

Why do you need to come to us

• The big impact on the big product. Each month our site is visited by 3 million users (top 9000 sites in the world), it will depend on you what kind of user experience these people will get and how much business will benefit from it. 
• Work remotely or from an office in Minsk (Kiroff Center, next to the Dynamo Stadium), or co-working space in Moscow, or hybrid. Flexible working hours.
• Mac 16 " i7 / 32/512 or 13” M1/16/512 and other equipment.
• Working in a global company with an American culture. We are a team of professionals and follow the same principles and policies that our offices in the USA, Finland and Japan, Horizontal relationships within the company. Everyone has access to everyone and everyone is always on an equal footing. Your ideas and initiatives are important, appreciated, and will be discussed.
• Payment for training, international conferences, trips to team sprints, etc. by request.
• Extensive insurance package. Add your close family members for free.
• We will help you achieve your professional development goals. We will define your wishlist and give you tasks that will help you reach your full potential and learn new things and achieve your most ambitious goals. Working with us, you will always increase your value in the market.

What you’ll have to do

You will have to maintain and develop the design of the Mapbox website. First of all, this is the mapbox.com website: design new pages, redesign existing ones, develop the design system and enrich it with new components, create a design for the site with support for switching between a dark and light theme. Your design should be aimed at improving the site's metrics, which will help us see an improved user experience and an increase in conversions.

Your main role will be related to the site, but sometimes you will also be responsible for some other design besides the site. For example, help with important commercial offers / presentations, help in preparing designs for physical branded products for the company's office. The additional non-related to website work is expected to be about 20% of the volume of work or less.

Your role will always concern the UX / UI, as well as the graphic component (illustrations, data visualization, photo processing, drawing icons).

What you need to join us

• 3+ years of experience in web / brand design.
• Professional proficiency in figma and adobe graphics package.
• Set high standards and constantly push the bar further up.
• High professionalism in web ux / ui. You can create interfaces that delight and at the same time are easy to use. 
• Ability to conduct high-quality design research, A / B tests, create user portraits and customer journey maps.
• Document the design process and decisions.
• Ability to create high-quality graphic content (illustrations, data visualization, photo processing, drawing icons). Skill in 3D is a big plus.
• You understand accessibility (accessibility for users) and create an accessible designs.
• Upper-intermediate English (fluent speaking and great writing).
• Be proactive, don't wait to be told what to do.
• Ability to build your own work, find the necessary information on your own by communication with various departments of the company.
• Work with other teams as with your own clients - different pages of the site always solve not only business problems in general, but also help to solve problems or improve the performance of specific teams. 
• Be open to criticism and strive to constantly and regularly receive a lot of feedback. 
• The ability to defend your point of view with arguments and say "no".
• Be inspired by the global Mapbox mission.

And also:

• Fill out and submit the form at the bottom of this page.
• Complete 1 phone screening and 3 interviews, each 45-60 minutes long. Some of them are in Russian, and some are in English, but more about this after submitting the application! We’re waiting for you!

If you are not 100% qualified , still seriously consider applying! Research suggests that you may be a good enough candidate, even if you meet 50% of the requirements.

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for all Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities and own what they do.
• We emphasize a partnership of teaching and learning to equip employees with a psychologically safe environment and tools needed to be successful in their function and growth.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive leadership, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We strongly believe in the value of a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants, which is linked here. Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application. 

Mapbox is an EEO Employer - Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

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