UX Designer (closed)

Mobilunity is a provider of dedicated development teams aiming to bring European corporate culture to the Ukrainian IT-labor market. Throughout all the years of our existence and until now, we’ve been working hand in hand with European companies as our primary partners. By our own example, we are proving that the dedicated team model works the best in all directions including employee’s interests as people have always been our main asset. Joining Mobilunity you won’t ever feel alone.

On behalf of our Client from Japan, Mobilunity is looking for UX Designer  for a long-term engagement.

About project:
Our client is a fast-growing fintech company based in Tokyo. The company offers its real-time monthly consolidated credit service all across Japan. Our client started Japan’s first instant post-pay credit service for e-commerce customers in October 2014. The main product is an online payment platform which requires no pre-registration or credit card to use; via this service the customers can purchase products online using only a mobile phone number and email address and settle a single monthly bill for all their purchases, either at a convenience store, by bank transfer or auto debit. Customers can use credit funds during a month and then return the balance to zero without paying credit interests.

This service also supports multi-pay installments and subscriptions. There are currently over 4 million accounts in use. This service got the largest investment to date in the Japanese financial tech industry, including PayPal Ventures investment.

Technical stack on the project:

• Test Scripts and a Software QA testing framework written in Python
• AWS Services (fargate, RDS, lambda) with PostgreSQL DBs
• API/App testing frameworks/tools (selenium, postman, browserstack, etc.)
• Circle CI + terraform provisioning and deployment
• Services written in Scala, Rust, and other languages

Responsibilities:

• Clarify user needs through research and data, develop deep insights, generate concepts, realize with high-fidelity design, in order to craft how people will interact with the services we design
• Proactively gather information from other departments to get deep understanding of the business case for customer experience improvement
• Identify potential opportunities to improve native app, web app, website and any other user experience
• Frame and visualize the context of design solutions. Present the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually such as sketching, storyboards, sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes, presentations that help the team understand what to build and why
• Collaborate within the feature team composed of product managers, engineers, data scientists, marketers and researchers to lead and take ownership of the consumer experience
• Monitor and lead ensuring development of consistent user experience across all areas of the service, by maintaining design system and guidelines
• Own overall end-to-end user experience from the big picture down to specifics of UX flow and UI functions as implemented
• Evaluate output of other UX designers to ensure quality of design work if the design meets business requirements and proper customer experience
• Envision and develop intuitive, scalable, and engaging interactions and experience designs for multiple platforms

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience of Interaction Design and/or Service Design across varied users, business problems, and devices
• 3+ years of experience designing digital products specifically with the local language tailored to Japanese consumers
• 3+ years of experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes.
• 3+ years of experience creating experience maps, user journeys and service blueprints, interaction models, flows, and wireframes.
• 3+ years of experience with rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototypes
• 2+ years of experience of managing design systems applied for multiple device products
• 2+ years of requirements gathering and communication between all design teams and project workstreams
• Design portfolio demonstrating the UX design process associated with a mobile app for iOS, Android, and the web
• Ability to document, present and manage stakeholder meetings in English. Collaborate with the cross-functional team communicating in English and Japanese. Design deliverables in Japanese

Nice to have:

• Have a strong creative sense and visual design skills to produce high-fidelity deliverables within a product-driven organization
• Experience managing expectations with senior executive stakeholders
• Experience working with already established design systems. Contributed to expanding and maintaining the design system with cross-functional teams
• Experience working within the financial industry designing services as part of a digital product or technology-driven organization
• Project management skills to lead the feature team to produce and iterate on improving the product
• Experience in conducting design exercises entirely remotely and using whiteboard services like FigJam and Miro
• Experience in crafting design and prototypes with Figma
• Experience in participating in practicing sprints using Jira, documenting design specifications on Confluence, and other ceremonies with the engineers

In return we offer:

• The friendliest community of like-minded IT-people
• Open knowledge-sharing environment – exclusive access to a rich pool of colleagues willing to share their endless insights into the broadest variety of modern technologies
• Paid vacations and sick leaves, including 5 paid days per year that don’t require a sick note
• Fair salary and 100% taxes coverage – don’t worry about possible taxes raise – we will get you covered
• English classes in 1-to-1 & group modes with elements of gamification
• Neverending fun: sports events, tournaments, music band, multiple affinity groups

Come on board, and let’s grow together!