Mobile Product Designer

About AccuLynx

AccuLynx is a SAAS application with iOS and Android applications; our software products serve exterior construction businesses and we are the category-leading software product in this almost 60 billion dollar industry. At AccuLynx, our employees can innovate, disrupt, and substantially change how these businesses manage their work through technology, and that creates a lot of interesting opportunities.

AccuLynx helps these businesses succeed by providing ways to manage their sales pipeline and estimation work. We have also developed tools that allow teams to share photos & videos, manage production, and order materials. AccuLynx also provides detailed analytical information and reporting that gives greater visibility to managers and business owners, allowing them to understand how their business performs and we are always developing new, innovative solutions to help exterior contractors grow and realize greater business efficiencies through our software.

At AccuLynx, our employees are empowered to make smart business decisions and are part of teams that help drive our products’ growth. Our culture is fun, focused, and motivated to create products that reduce complexity and provide our customers with easy-to-use technologies that allow them to scale their business.

Some of our benefits:

We believe that culture is one of the essential ingredients for success. Fun, learning, collaboration, innovation, and personal growth is our way of life.

• Attractive compensation 
• Paid time off and flexible work hours
• Competitive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• 401K with matching and safe harbor contributions

About The Position

AccuLynx is looking for a Mobile Product Designer to join our growing team that has a passion for designing application interfaces for desktop and mobile devices. The ideal candidate lives and breathes mobile application design and understands the mobile product delivery lifecycle. The ideal candidate will also understand the human factor and design standards for both iOS and Android platforms and has a proven track record for designing useful and usable mobile apps.  They should be able to lead design work based on clearly defined business goals as well as work within a team to iteratively develop solutions that align with defined product requirements and design standards. Mobile Product Designers are expected to be team players, to take direction and synthesize it into a cohesive vision, participate in design workshops as well as user research and help define the user experience requirements for the mobile products they are designing. As a Mobile Product Designer, you will work as part of a team, collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers. You will be expected to deliver creative thinking and design ideas that improve the experiences our customers have with our software as well as manage multiple projects simultaneously. This position reports to our VP of Product and Design.

Responsibilities

• Create Mobile App Design and user interface solutions for AccuLynx mobile applications
• Provide ability to deliver high-quality mobile app designs to customers. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the design process
• Participate in development process from definition, through design, build, test, release, and maintain
• Stay abreast of UX trends and look for creative ideas and inspiration in parallel analogous worlds.
• Continually research and track advancements in mobile application design patterns, Staying in the loop
      and on top of the latest standards, changes, trends in the mobile design field.
• Unpack design problems, breaking them down into viable and actionable chunks and solving them with
      clarity and precision.
• Work with Product Managers to understand our customers needs based on real-world context
• Receive high-level direction and deliver on detailed prototypes, wireframes, and visual compositions to   

    communicate your ideas.

• Develop visual comps, wireframes, and process flows
• Champion great ideas verbally and through design artifacts that clearly communicate those ideas
• Participate in design workshop sessions and create multiple concepts around a given set of requirements
• Have an expert sense of composition, typography, color theory

Skills & Qualifications

• 2-5 years related experience in UI & visual design for mobile applications
• A bachelor’s or higher degree in visual communications, interaction design, human-computer  
    interaction, cognitive science or related field. 
• A team player who can easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment.
• An understanding of design strategies that facilitate product improvement incrementally over phases.
• Can manage multiple projects simultaneously in an agile development environment
• Collaborates effectively within a multidisciplinary team. 
• A through understanding of the limitations and capabilities of mobile devices, mobile browsers and 
    presentation layer technologies.
• Strong portfolio featuring design work that showcases user interface design, interaction design,
    information design, visual design, and mobile design skills.
• Excellent understanding of Apple’s human interface design guidelines, Android design and other mobile 
    platform designs, including Google’s material design.
• Solid experience designing for desktop and mobile applications with a focus on delivering engaging
    user experiences.
• Expert knowledge of Sketch and Adobe Creative Suite, prototypeing tools like Figma, Marvel, or   
    InVIsion. Knowledge of motion graphics, anaimation and prototyping tools a plus.