UI/UX Designer at FarmCrowdy

Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by connecting farm sponsors with real farmers for the purpose of producing high-quality farm produce. Our mandate is to empower rural farmers, contribute to food security in Nigeria and provide a healthy means of engaging people with Agriculture from a profit driven perspective.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: UI/UX Designer

Location: Lagos
Contract Duration: Full - time
Reports to: VP Technology, CEO

Duties

• Responsible for Front End design.
• Facilitate Farmcrowdy’s product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up into intuitive user experiences for digital products
• Defining and Implementing innovative solutions for product direction, visuals and experience.
• Executing all visual design stages from concept to final hand-off.
• Conceptualizing Original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design roadblocks.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic designs and user-experience decisions related to core, new functions and features
• Take a user centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback.
• Adhere to established design guidelines, best practices and standards.

Core Competencies
Ideal candidates for this role will have:

• Minimum of 3 years experience and proven track record.
• Strong portfolio to be presented and defended during interview.
• Proven UI/UX experience on any E-commerce platform or in a similar capacity
• Solid experience in creating wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows and site maps
• Proficiency in Adobe Suite; Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns.
• Excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first responsive design
• Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
• Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas and solutions.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
• Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
• Present and defend your design decisions. All design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. colour theory, visual weight. Etc.)
• Ability to meet target deadlines

Application Closing Date
19th September, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their design portfolios along with CV's to: jobs@farmcrowdy.com

Note: Farmcrowdy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce.