Eventbase is hiringUX Designer
We're seeking a motivated and energetic User Experience Designer to join our team. You will be involved in every aspect of the product development process. You’ll work with a cross-functional, highly capable team of designers, product managers and engineers, inventing and iterating on end-to-end workflows and product experiences. You will utilize your full range of product design, interaction design, and visual design skills, and you will be contributing to designing mobile app experiences for event attendees as well as web-based event administration tools for event organizers.
This is a full-time position and can be based anywhere in Canada (the team is based in Vancouver, BC working remotely). Please note that we can only consider candidates who reside in Canada with valid working status.
About Eventbase
Eventbase has set the gold standard for live event technology for more than a decade. We power mobile event apps for global brands including Salesforce, Cisco, SAP, Deloitte and Adobe. We also build official mobile apps for massive events including South By Southwest (SXSW) and National Retail Federation Big Show, as well as three Olympic Games. Eventbase has been recognized with more awards than any other event app platform, including being named winner of “Best Event App” at the Event Technology Awards five times.
We are driven by our mission: to bring people together for the magic of live events, and we’re proud that our industry-leading products have been at the heart of exceptional live events around the world since 2009. Millions of attendees across thousands of events have held Eventbase’s product in their hand as they walked the conference floor, participated in sessions and interacted with others onsite. Our team has a track record of pioneering breakthrough live event technology, and there are more exciting innovations to come. The event industry is being reinvented in the wake of Covid-19, and Eventbase is uniquely positioned to play a key role in this new world of events. We’re moving forward with our vision to shape the future of live event experiences.
Are you ready to join the industry leader in live event technology?
What You'll Do
- Create UX and UI design deliverables for our mobile event products (including concept sketches, user flows, prototypes, wireframes and design specs), and designs that elevate the event experience and help us successfully meet the needs of our customers and event attendees
- Partner closely with developers to translate UX solutions into technical specifications
- Explain user research results to internal and external stakeholders
- Develop personas and usage scenarios
- Conduct usability testing
- Create wireframes, storyboards, sitemaps and screen flows
- Create product prototypes
- Analyze user feedback and activity, and iterating to enhance the user experience
- Assist with content development
- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
What You Bring
- A portfolio showing a selection of previous projects in mobile (iOS & Android) and desktop platforms.
- BS/BA in Interactive Design, HCI or related degree preferred
- Experience working in an Agile environment is preferred
- Experience with mobile-specific UX, and best practices in user-centered design
- Strong UX/UI visual design prototyping, with expert proficiency in industry-standard software (Figma & Adobe CC)
- Have some experience building design systems for mobile platforms (iOS & Android) or have worked with/contributed to existing systems in the past.
- Experience with usability practices (persona creation, research, A/B testing, observational studies)
- Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively explain your work to project stakeholders
- Desire to learn and continuously improve, bringing a can-do attitude towards working in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
- 2 to 3 years of experience in a similar role
Why Join the Eventbase Team?
At Eventbase we value trust, respect and authenticity, and believe we are all better together. Joining the Eventbase team means you will enjoy a progressive work environment with some exceptional perks, including the option to go onsite at some of the largest events on the planet. We enjoy “No Meeting Fridays” and Eventbasers get every second Friday off, so you can have an extra 26 long weekends every year in addition to statutory holidays. We have a $1250 annual professional development allocation and $1000 per year to set up your home office. We also offer comprehensive benefits including extended health care from your first day, a $1000 flexible health/wellness spending account, paid parental leave for all new parents, and paid mental health days. And of course we offer competitive market salaries and employee stock options too.
We’re proud of our diverse team: Eventbasers hail from all over the world, with many different backgrounds, cultures and interests. We actively promote women working in technology both internally and by partnering with women in tech organizations externally. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national or ethnic origin, gender or gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital or family status, veteran status, or disability status.
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