Senior UX Designer

Astound vision

Astound Commerce provides tailored solutions for wide range of ecommerce businesses: from pet food to B2B restaurant kitchen appliances. Our UX designers craft customer experiences for world-class projects that enable our clients to be successful by combination of human-centered design and leading-edge ecommerce solutions. We work with clients from USA, UK, Germany and Middle East. We need a skilled UX designer to join our Ukrainian team. You will be involved in every step of the design process: research user and business needs, drive onsite workshops with a client, craft prototypes of needed fidelity, present your solutions to team and clients.

Benefit of working in Astound

You will learn the well established design and development process, will have a voice to improve things on a project and on a team level, personally persuade clients that your ideas work, will have a different possibilities to learn world class UX best practices.

Through a forward-thinking, results-driven approach, Astound Commerce serves leading global brands such as Adidas, L'Oreal, Under Armour, Jimmy Choo, Lacoste and Versace.

You will:

• Lead big ecommerce projects;
• Compile researches and evaluations;
• Balance user needs against business goals and technology capabilities;
• Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the team;
• Work directly with client;
• Work directly with engineers, provide review and advice for functional documents;
• Provide artifacts to clarify the requirements: user flows, personas, journey maps etc;
• Design prototypes.

You have:

• Solid 3+ years of UX, UI and interactive work;
• Strong understanding of User Centered Design methods;
• Experience in creating interactive & high fidelity prototypes;
• At least Upper-Intermediate level of English (both verbal and written);
• Ability to think on a high level about product strategy & vision;
• Self-motivated and can efficiently run with a project without supervision;
• Basic knowledge of ecommerce specifics;
• Portfolio of completed web projects.

Good to have:

• Experience in e-commerce area;
• Experience in applying UX research methods;
• Experience in human factors, human behavior, field observations & ethno research is an advantage.

We offer:

• Knowledgebase of the world's largest ecommerce delivery team;
• Trainings and certifications;
• A constant inflow of ecommerce projects with global outreach;
• Well set SDLC process with use of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall depending on a project;
• Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
• Internal/external engineering and business training and conferences and time for self-education;
• Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes;
• A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams, easy communications and access to clients;
• Possible international on-site visits;
• Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.