Sr UI/UX Designer

FiFyles is changing lives

As a Senior UI/UX Visual Designer with unique problem-solving and a deep passion for quality, you have the talent to help us design the next generation of FitFyles and bring our five-star Web and Mobile Apps to tens of millions of users each month. If this sounds like you, please read on

Who You Are

• You believe the experience is everything
• You know how to use a strong process to create the best for people
• You possess a relentless desire to innovate
• You pay an unwavering attention to detail
• You don't think good enough is ever enough
• You think art and beauty are completely compatible with a great sense of humor
• You like having your hands in every aspect of a product's design
• You breathe simplicity and intuition into the design of everything you touch
• You adore developers and like holding their hands
• You're a crack amateur psychologist
• You surprise and delight with your designs
• You could spend all day in SFMOMA, the California Academy of Sciences, or exploring street art
• You know how to use em dashes appropriately
• You know that crafting error messages and designing edge cases represents how much you really care
• You use your dream state to help flesh out your product's stories
• Your right brains and left brains are equally developed

What You Want From Your Next Career Move

To help people live longer, healthier, and happier lives, bringing simplicity and clarity to health information and connections, and encouraging healthy engagement through compelling design. 

Why We Need You

FitFyles is out to change the world—one person at a time. As a Visual Designer at FitFyles, your designs will be seen by and make a difference in the lives of millions of people. They'll even help save lives. You'll bring simplicity and clarity to health information and connections, and encourage health engagement through compelling design. You'll work closely with Engineers and Product Managers to create designs that are simple but engaging and simple for the user, focusing on creating intuitive interactions and compelling, pleasing visual designs. Responsibilities include:

• Define and build the revolutionary applications that actually help save lives
• Bring simplicity, clarity, and ease of use to health – a field filled with complexity, confusion, and uncertainty
• Design novel visual interfaces, user flows, and compelling interactions, and develop, communicate, and implement the best-in-class user experience and associated UI framework on a range of products
• Develop, communicate, and implement the best-in-class user experience and associated UI framework on a range of products
• Advocate responsibly and effectively for users in a fast-paced startup environment, imparting day-to-day design leadership that fosters a shared understanding of the user-centric intersection between design, content, business, and engineering
• Manage UX research and testing processes to drive the development and communication of design guidelines, patterns, and libraries that will be used to make a difference, and track and analyze metrics to inform design/UX optimization efforts
• Oversee close coordination with the product management team to develop a shared vision of exceptional user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and final graphics

How You'll invert the Healthcare Model

To help people live better, healthier, and happier lives, bringing simplicity and clarity to health information history and encouraging healthy engagement through compelling design. 

What You've Achieved

• BA/BS or graduate degree from a top school or program, with an exceptional academic record (design or related degree preferred)
• Professional background as an interactive / UX designer in mass-market web and mobile products
• Strong user experience skill set including strategy, information architecture, design aesthetic, and usability testing
• A compelling and engaging portfolio that demonstrates out-of-the box thinking, clean design principles, and exceptional user flows and experiences
• Proven understanding of interaction design concepts and a unique sense of design principles
• Expert skill level in Photoshop and Illustrator
• Mobile-first approaches into your daily workflow (preferred)
• Intimate understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript (preferred)