Catalyst is hiringUX/UI Designer

Summary

Are you a digital product designer looking to impact Web3? Catalyst, part of the Cardano ecosystem, seeks a skilled UX/UI Designer. Reporting to the Lead of Product Design, you’ll work with experts in product, engineering, community, and operations. At Catalyst, you’ll design cross-platform applications to bring decentralized solutions globally, supporting Cardano’s mission for a secure, transparent, and fair world.

Your responsibilities include clarifying problems, discovering opportunities, ideating solutions, and creating world-class user experiences. Success means empathizing with users, finding creative solutions, and delivering delightful experiences in a fast-paced agile environment. Your insights into user needs will shape the vision, strategy, and design of our product areas.

We value creativity, collaboration, and excellence. If you’re ready to push boundaries in decentralized applications, join us at Catalyst to help shape the future of blockchain innovation.

Duties

• Facilitate and structure the problem discovery and solution definition for your assigned product area leveraging the expertise in your cross-functional team
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure the visions and concepts are aligned with broader business goals, and are set to deliver strategic value, and contribute to the business case development
• Facilitate cross-discipline sessions as part of early product definition - likely pulling from a tool box of lean UX approaches, design sprint and prototyping methods
• Gather and evaluate user and business needs, in collaboration with product managers and engineers
• Lead discovery initiatives to identify insights about user behaviors, pain points and needs. Share effectively those insights inside and outside the team so that they can inform decisions  
• Develop wireframes and prototypes that clearly illustrate how defined solutions function
• Identify and analyze problems related to the overall experience and structure of the assigned product area to understand their impact and plan improvements accordingly
• Lead design of a product area; connecting that to a broader product vision (e.g, purchase experience)
• Design product solutions which are data informed (quant & qual) using a variety of design techniques and artifacts of varying fidelities
• Ensure our products follow accessibility standards and create a standard by contributing to our design system guidelines

Key Competencies 

• Awareness of, and ability to implement, clear and structured communications methods, for example, implementing optimal communication methods
• Ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and defuse conflict
• Visionary and pragmatic mindset (someone that can see and understand the longer term but act with pragmatism in the present)
• Knowledge to create usable digital products; awareness of frameworks and techniques that provide usable products and the common patterns of behaviors that if applied to the product structure and interfaces will usually deliver simple usable experiences
• Knowledge in collecting and understanding both quantitative and qualitative data
• Expertise and understanding of each high level step of the Product Design process throughout the whole product development lifecycle (from discovery to delivery)
• A good understanding of key accessibility and usability frameworks and guidelines
• Ability to communicate design effectively, and adapt communication to suit the audience 
• Ability to receive and act upon feedback as well as effectively give constructive feedback to others
• Highly organized, with strong time management skills. Proven ability to prioritize tasks, anticipate incoming requests
• Ability to clarify success metrics and tie efforts toward delivering business value
• Some experience running user testing sessions
• Excellent stakeholder management and managing expectations in a fast-paced environment
• Curiosity and passion for understanding users’ needs  
• Knowledge of UI kit development and smooth handoff to dev team
• Ability to create visually stunning custom design assets

Education / Experience / Interests

• Proven work experience as a Product designer or similar role with complex products 
• Experience in web3 products and technology
• Experience engaging with web3 and other online communities
• Excellent Figma skills and understanding design systems / ui kits is a must. 
• Expertise in an agile environment.
• Proven ability to collaborate successfully with cross-functional peers and teams to develop concepts and products
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
• Experience with varied design and research processes and frameworks
• Experience of influencing and advocating for the user/customer to non-design audiences
• Experience in planning and running user interviews and testing sessions
• Experience facilitating workshops in Miro and leading meetings
• HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus 

You see yourself as 

• Designer by heart, designing is not work is a way of living mentality
• You consider yourself a natural “finisher.” You like the day-to-day work and the routine execution. When “starters” and “finishers” pair up, everybody wins
• Designer of new design patterns for web3
• Designer with empathy, creativity, and strategy
• Innovation & Media Theory focused.

Bonus Points:

• Interest in transitional UI’s / motion UI
• Build humane / natural / chat-like interfaces
• Making web3 ready for family and friends

Portfolio presentation
Applicants need to be able to present their portfolio / best work, especially with a focus on (custom) interface design.

• Flexible schedule
• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO 
• Medical Benefits

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.