Lead UX/UI Designer to help us redefine online recruitment

Define the future of online recruitment: With the title of Lead UX/UI Designer at Graduateland comes a key position in the development of Graduateland.com with a strong mobile- and app focus. Key areas of responsibility lie within the development of large new products and features, where you will be tasked with exploring innovative UX solutions, designing state of the art user interfaces, identifying usability problems and understanding use cases. Our mission: By joining us at Graduateland, you will become part of Europe’s largest career portal for students and graduates. We focus on delivering outstanding career portals to universities all over the world! We have been able to heavily expand, growing from 6 to 20 people in 6 years. More than 700.000 users have created an account at Graduateland and more than 15.000 recruiters have registered as well. We are growing fast and we need talented and skillful people right now, and since you are still reading, it could very well be you! Job Description: - Develop wireframes, sketches, designs and prototypes
. - Design state of the art user interfaces
. - Collaborate with engineers, product managers and users to deliver amazing experiences
. - Be a user-advocate during the entire development process
. - There is potential for a large amount of responsibility as a key player in Graduateland. Current projects: Apart from the overall improvement of the Graduateland experience, we’ll be focusing on some specific projects where you’ll be having the creative lead: CV builder: It should be easy to make a good looking CV. We’ve developed a CV builder where you can create a CV by pulling out the data from your Graduateland profile. We have a live beta version, but gonna put a lot of effort into improving the features in the new year. Talent pools: We’re gonna make it easier for our customers to pool all the university talents and build up talent pipelines that they can reach out to in an easy way. You and the Product manager gonna figure out how! Graduateland Virtual Career Fair: We have BIG expectations in regard to this project! It’s a new way for recruiters and candidates to interact digitally and we’ve already conducted one event successfully. 2017 is going to be the year where this project will be fully realized. The ideal candidate: - Enjoys designing beautiful and effective User Interfaces
. - Considers User Experience as more than just aesthetics
. - Constantly searches for simplicity
. - Loves constructive criticism
. - Is obsessed with understanding the way people “act” and think
. - Has the ability to distil key issues from usability tests and implement practical solutions
. - Has a passion for design and great user experience
. - Works well both in a collaborative team environment and independently
. - Is a lifelong learner with a continuous eye for improving your craft
. - Is a highly motivated self-starter with a positive attitude. Qualifications: - Documented experience with design of user interfaces. - Skilled user of the tools from the web designer's toolbox (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Sketch etc.)
. - Excellent understanding of desktop and mobile design
. - We would love if you have some basic experience with coding (that means that you know that CSS and HTML are not abbreviations for a new game console - well maybe you've even built your own Wordpress site or the like). This will smoothen the collaboration with our skilled developers. - Our product development is data-driven which means that we take our user data seriously (we use Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Optimizely, Inspectlet, Intercom), and use these insights when developing new features. If you have some experience with these tracking tools it would be great! - You are creative and ready to solve tasks that haven’t been solved before
. We are located at the über cool tech hub, Startup Village, at Islands Brygge, Copenhagen.