Product Designer - Remote

Overview

Atlas Obscura is a media company on a mission to inspire curiosity about the world's hidden wonders. We are seeking a part-time contract designer to work with our product team to design engaging and intuitive user experiences that support our community of passionate explorers and help grow our business.

In Short

• Design new features across the entire product lifecycle and refine the existing experience.
• Balance user needs with business needs, utilizing research, data, and strategy.
• Partner closely with the product manager, engineers, and stakeholders at all stages.
• Be a self-starter comfortable working in a 100% remote setting with minimal meetings.
• Create a range of solutions to a single problem, collaboratively iterating on the approach from early flows and sketches to prototypes and high-fidelity designs.

Requirements

• You have at least 2-4 years experience designing digital products, including consumer web apps, with an online portfolio demonstrating your work.
• You are able to create well-rounded designs, balancing attention to UI and UX.
• You’re adept at Figma (or similar tools) and can continue to shape a design system.
• You are confident in accounting for edge cases and various states during design, as well as sorting through new considerations as they arise during building and QA.
• You communicate clearly and value regular collaboration with technical and non-technical colleagues, synthesizing a range of inputs and feedback to extract signal from the noise.

Benefits

• Experience working with map UIs, subscription user flows and native mobile apps.
• Experience spearheading varied user research and collaborative design exercises.
• Experience with graphic and/or brand design.
• Experience in scrappy, startup-like contexts with small teams moving quickly.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and/or Tailwind CSS.