Jr. UI Designer

Company: Groundfloor Finance
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

Make a difference, help create apps that youll be proud of, and grow your career at a rapidly growing company!

GROUNDFLOOR was founded in 2013 and is well past the roller coaster ride of an early stage startup. We have real products that are making a big difference in the lives of small investors. Our loans help real estate investors improve neighborhoods all over the country. Our investment products help everyday people achieve returns of over 10%.

A recipient of seven major industry awards in 2020 alone (including Inc 5000, Deloitte Technology Fast 500, the HousingWire Tech 100, and a TAG Top 10 Most Innovative Company), GROUNDFLOOR is creating a new category of individual real estate investments accessible to everyone.

Business is booming, and we need talented mobile designers, developers, and engineers to build a suite of applications. These apps are brand new, so youll be substantially contributing to new features. Your work will be crucial to the growth of the business.

We're based in Atlanta, but are remote friendly and value high quality/low-ego collaboration. If that sounds good to you, join us!

Requirements

Are you a passionate creative driven by your curiosity to try new things and communicate your ideas through compelling design? Are you a visual storyteller that gets excited about ideating and working in a design thinking environment? Fantastic!

Were looking for a talented UI Designer to help create amazing user experiences in our mobile apps. The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean and artful design, possess superior UI skills, and be able to translate high-level requirements, interaction flows, and sketches into beautiful, intuitive, and functional user interfaces. If youre an innovative storyteller who embraces an environment where you can experiment and learn, we would love to hear from you.

A DAY IN THE LIFE:

• Collaborate with Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Business teams to uncover customer and business needs, and translate them into engaging, intuitive design solutions
• Generate assets for front-end menus, icons, buttons, widgets, backgrounds, data displays, and top-down maps from concept to final polished product
• Participate in the entire iterative design process from discovery to launch
• Create wireframes, storyboards, user flows, site maps, and page designs that engage and inform
  
  THIS JOB MIGHT BE FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE:
  
  • Hands-on experience creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs
  • Strong collaboration skills and can align with teams responsible for mobile experiences
  • Strong attention to detail with a keen eye for design and development
  • Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
  • A strong passion for innovation
  • Self-motivation and an interest in new tools and technology
    
    YOUR EXPERIENCE + A FEW NICE TO HAVES:
    
    • 3+ years of experience in UI design (preferably in the mobile app space)
    • Demonstrable UI design skills with a strong portfolio
    • Humble, with a sense of humor, good attitude, and strong work ethic
    • Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools, (e.g. Figma, Adobe XD, CC, etc.)
      
      Benefits
      
      We value our employees time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and extensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, potential equity for strong candidates, and future growth opportunities within the company. Plus, we work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.
      
      GROUNDFLOOR is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
      
      More About GROUNDFLOOR
      
      Since its launch in 2013, participants in GROUNDFLOORs real estate loans have earned annualized returns averaging 10 to 12 percent in a 6 to 12-month timeframe. No prior real estate knowledge is needed, and the $10 minimum is intentionally a low barrier to entry to give everyone the ability to build wealth in real estate. To date, GROUNDFLOOR remains the only platform offering direct participation in individual real estate investments to all on a broad scale, regardless of income or net worth.
      
      The company is headquartered in Atlanta and has raised more than $30 million in capital from a variety of sources, including venture capital and online public equity offerings. As of its most recent round of financing, the company has over 6,400 public shareholders and is 30 percent customer-owned.by Jobble

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