Showcase IDX is hiringUI/UX Designer

• Amazing work/life balance - sane & flexible work schedule, extremely generous vacation.
• Work on interesting customer and product challenges in an environment that encourages creativity, fun, and the use of new tools to deliver the best results.
• Have the creative freedom for learning, experimenting, and responsible risk-taking in a startup-like environment.
• Work closely with a small, talented team with a proven track record.
• Be a central part of a product team that will design and build the next generation of home search tools.
• A team culture that attracts and retains the absolute best people through a motivating and rewarding environment. 
• Have your work be seen and used by millions of people.
• Spend your day looking for ways to make people's lives better as they look for a new home, not simply creating boring wireframes for products that you really don't care about.
• Great benefits like Health Insurance (Medical/Vision/Dental), flexible vacation scheduling, 401K with 4% company match and much more.

About You

• You are looking for a rare opportunity to be mentored by and work alongside a team that has been strategic and tactical leaders in marketing, operations, and brand storytelling, across multiple industries from start-up to over $500M annual revenue.
• You love a challenge. You are resourceful and creative to find solutions. Big goals don’t scare you – they inspire you.
• You are driven by serving others to make them successful and help them have a great customer experience.
• Your best day is seeing your team deliver and achieve amazing results.
• You relish the opportunity to work with a product team, marketing team, customer success team, and customers to ensure a surprisingly awesome customer experience.
• You ask a lot of questions and love spirited yet professional debate, knowing it improves outcomes.
• You are motivated by creating your own path to deliver value and take full advantage of personal empowerment.
• You have a bias towards action. You’re programmed to take the initiative to ask questions, learn, and get things done. 
• You possess superb listening skills and the proven ability to dig deeper to uncover the people’s true objectives.
• You are resourceful, scrappy, and creative — if a playbook doesn't exist yet, you go figure it out and build it for the whole team to use
• You are comfortable with data, ambiguity, and speed.
• You relish the opportunity to work from anywhere.
• You’re not afraid to fail. In fact, you look forward to the learning and growth that happens when you get something wrong and you quickly incorporate the learnings into action.
• You are a detail-oriented, results-driven, self-starter, with a high level of energy, enthusiasm, and initiative that this remote role requires. 
• You think of yourself as a nice person most of the time.

Responsibilities

• Deliver elegantly-simple solutions to the right problems - defined by qualitative and quantitative insights and data on web and mobile
• Contribute to the creation of a CSS Design system to create a uniform UI across multiple platforms.
• Design. Test. Iterate: Transform complex ideas into amazingly simple products. Create wireframes and flows to define features. Rapidly test hypotheses to validate and refine your concepts and improve your designs.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process with wireframes, flow diagrams, storyboards, mockups, and/or high fidelity prototypes.
• Integrate user feedback and business requirements into ongoing product experience updates.
• Advocate for the prioritization of design centered changes, refinements, and improvements. 
• Create a unified experience across the entire customer journey that is contextual, useful, and beautiful.
• Work closely with teammates to design a product that people searching for homes can't believe they never had and can no longer live without.
• Commit to understanding and knowing our users more than anyone else in the company - both the emotional needs and the functional needs
• Advocate for our diverse customer base with hard data and in-depth research to help meet their unique needs
• Help ship amazing features: Work with team members in the product and engineering groups through the product development lifecycle to stay ahead of issues and make sure projects are delivered to your specifications and on time. Track key success metrics to inform future feature development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in the design of successful interactive experiences that have proven to engage users and solve their problems.
• Bachelor's degree in Design or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in creating and managing CSS design systems.
• Experience collaborating with teams of Designers, Researchers, Engineers, and Product Managers throughout the design process; creating user flows and wireframes to building user interface mockups and prototypes.
• Experience designing across multiple platforms.
• Portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Design, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field and/or 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Ability to lead and ideate products from scratch and improve features, all with a user-centric design mindset and process.
• Skills in communicating and influencing product design strategy.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and familiarity with technical constraints and limitations as they apply to designing for platforms such as desktop and mobile (i.e. Android and iOS).

Compensation

• Competitive Salary
• Stock Option Grant 
• Flexible PTO
• Quality Medical + Dental + Vision
• Tax-Free Flexible Health Spending Account
• 401K with 4% company match
• Life Insurance
• Short-term Disability Insurance
• Long-term Disability Insurance