Senior UX/UI Designer
April 1, 2024
Team: Product
Position: Full-time
Location: Littleton, Colorado
Compensation: $140,000 – $170,000. Benefits include: medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), paid holidays/vacation/sick leave, stock options, and more.
About Emporia
Founded in 2018, Emporia is an energy management technology company dedicated to making energy efficiency accessible to all homeowners by offering safe, accurate, reliable, and powerful products at the lowest cost and highest quality possible. Emporia’s ecosystem includes EV chargers, smart home energy monitors, smart plugs, solar, storage, and automated energy management software tools that provide customer savings and energy efficiency through a single mobile app interface. Emporia believes in putting customers first to help them easily reduce their energy use to save money and make the world a better place.
Job Description
At Emporia, we create software and hardware to manage home energy. We are seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer who will play a critical role in shaping the future of our applications. This position involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design and implement effective, engaging user interfaces. Translating complex home management features into simple mobile interactions will be a key goal of the role.
The primary work will be on our mobile application on iOS and Android. Experience with web design is a plus for this position as Emporia evolves other product experiences.
Your work will involve:
- Creating and refining wireframes, prototypes, and design compositions that clearly communicate interaction concepts and define development requirements.
- Working closely with both iOS and Android platforms, ensuring designs take into account Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and Google’s Material Design principles.
- Utilizing Figma to develop detailed design specs
- Creating assets that are ready for implementation by our development team
- Collaborating with developers to ensure that design visions are translated into functional and visually appealing interfaces.
- Enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability and accessibility provided in the interaction between the customer and the product.
- Working directly with the Chief Product Officer to ideate on future product improvements.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Proven design experience with iOS and Android platforms.
- Strong familiarity with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines and Google’s Material Design.
- Proficient in Figma for creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
- Experience in providing comprehensive design specs that align functional specifications with developer requirements.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a team environment.
- Quality Assurance of work products to ensure that the development team delivery matches the provided design specifications.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in motion design and interaction animation.
- Background in conducting user testing and research to validate and improve design decisions.
- Experience with cross-platform design with React Native, Flutter, or similar
- Experience with the Jira suite of products for ticket tracking and documentation