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: CEO, VP Technology, VP Products & Data
The Role
- We are looking for a talented UI/UX Designer to create amazing, memorable user experiences; create wireframes and design interface concepts and graphic layouts and make them exciting.
- The ideal candidate should have an eye for clean artful design, possess superior UI/UX skills and be able to translate high-level requirements into interaction flows and artifacts, and transform them into creative, intuitive, functional user interfaces.
Duties
- 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
- Take smart risks and champion new ideas
- Conduct user research and evaluate user feedback
- Establish and promote 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 Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe Suit, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash/Swish
- Proficiency in Basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3, JQeury, PHP, Wordpress, Bootstrap, Frameworks (Laravel/Codelgniter) & JavaScript for rapid prototyping
- A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, 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 present your designs and sell your solutions to various stakeholders
- Ability to solve problems creatively and effectively
- Ability to iterate your designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design.
- Up-to-date with the latest UI trends, techniques, and technologies
Application Closing Date
8th March, 2017.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their applications and CV's to:
[email protected]
Note: Farmcrowdy is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce.