Lifesize is hiring: Product UI Designer in Austin

Lifesize is the leading provider of high definition video conferencing cloud service. Our award winning solutions combine exceptional quality and simplicity to make video communications a productive, true-to-life experience.

As a Product Designer you'll focus on crafting the user interface for our award-winning mobile, Web, and desktop apps, and high-end video conferencing phones and cameras. You'll collaborate with us to translate concepts, ideas, and requirements into elegant visuals, intuitive interactions, and meaningful motion. We move fast around here so flexibility, transparency, and a passion for expanding your personal toolbox of skills are key qualities we look for in our team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• You’ll work with project teams to craft the visual design and interactions of user interfaces that both delight users and fulfill business goals
• Work both autonomously in pursuit of elegant solutions to open-ended problems and collaboratively with team members on large-scale design improvements for our products
• You will build design assets, specs, and guidelines to communicate your UI direction to stakeholders and implementation teams
• Using and contribute toward growing our existing design system and evangelize atomic design principles
• Communicate your decision-making rationale with confidence but receive constructive critique and art direction with a respectful, patient style
• Find creative ways to incorporate feedback from team members, stakeholders, and usability testing to improve and refine your design ideas
• Learn and become an expert user of Lifesize video conferencing products

SKILLS REQUIRED:

Your mastery of Sketch mean you’ll fearlessly face off with nested symbols but you can make use of Photoshop and Illustrator when they’re the right tool for the job

You're an expert at infusing life into your designs and communicating how they fit into our larger product design vision

You love iterating through a lot of creative options before narrowing down to the strongest solutions, and can explain your thought process and design rationale

In addition to having serious visual design chops, you’re strong in at least two of the following:

• Creating meaningful UI animations and transitions using tools like AfterEffects, Principle, or Framer
• Demonstrating your ideas in prototypes using tools like InVision, Marvel, and Axure
• Applying your art direction skills to ensure the strategy behind your design both evokes the right emotional reaction and fits an existing brand
• Creating reusable creative assets and documenting design patterns with the goal of scaling a team’s design output while maintaining consistency across project teams and products

Have a working knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of HTML5, CSS3, and javascript? You have our attention

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years of experience in the visual design and interaction of product UI
• BA or BFA in a relevant field, or equivalent number of years of relevant experience
• An online portfolio that gives us an idea of your visual design experience, especially your shipped products
• Able to juggle multiple priorities and projects in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical thinking skills with the demonstrated ability to understand and reconcile complex, interdependent and occasionally competing requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of software product lifecycle and experience working in a collaborative agile/Lean environment preferred
• Experience designing products for a global audience preferred
• Confident in applying best practices and established design patterns to common design problems
• Intellectual curiosity, an attitude of continuous improvement, and an eye for detial

Lifesize is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifesize does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, or disability.