UX Designer

Love dogs? Have an eye for design? This is the place for you!

About us

At Embark, we help people discover their dog more than fur deep with the most comprehensive DNA test on the market. Designed by world leaders in dog genetics, in partnership with Cornell University, the Embark Dog DNA Test tells owners what breeds make up their pets, how to prevent future possible health problems, and what features and traits their pet might have. Join our team and help us improve the lives of dogs and their owners through genomics.

Embark is the only dog DNA test using a research-grade DNA microarray, letting us give our customers the most accurate and comprehensive results on the market. More importantly, it allows us to do ongoing research into the genetics of dogs, which are a fantastic population for genetic discovery due to selective breeding over time. Our research focuses on mapping new traits and diseases, improving personalized veterinary medicine, and developing new breeding programs to eliminate preventable diseases in pets.

Sound great? We’re looking for highly motivated and driven designers who will help us stay on the cutting edge of creativity and innovation in the fast-growing consumer genetics space.

The Role

Are you ready to inspire countless dog owners to give their dogs the best possible care? We’re looking for an incredible UX Designer to join our small but mighty Creative team to help with our production design needs. This role will report to the Creative Director and deliver compelling designs that are digitally-focused concepts and experiences. We’re looking for someone with a strong background in visual and interaction design, with a keen eye toward typography, composition, and color.

The Opportunity (The day-to-day)

• Create and refine visual design
• Create and refine ux design for our interfaces and digital products
• Help inform our roadmap prioritization based on research
• Conduct ux design audit, journey mapping, user flows, etc
• Facilitate user-testing and validate prototypes
• Coach teammates on Embark’s Design Principles
• Define digital experience Accessibility Standards for the organization
• Mentor junior designers
• Present work and findings
• Participate in creative team cadences and design critiques
• Establish Double Diamond process and accompanying activities
• Design desirable, feasible, viable experiences after synthesising user needs, business goals, and requirements.
• Articulate design considerations tailored to different audiences
• Strategize and implement global design system (to ensure end-to-end continuity)
• Establish and enable UX Research as a practice throughout the company
• Be a champion for dogs and their owners

Stretch Projects

• Help define and organize content based on IA best practices and research
• Work to define product opportunities and differentiators by activating user insights
• Refine user interview techniques
• Hone ideation best practices

Requirements 

• A portfolio that demonstrates successful design across a wide array of media
• 3-5+ years of required experience in visual design, UI design, graphic design, interaction design, or related field
• Mastery of industry-standard design tools, e.g. Sketch, Adobe CC Suite, Invision, et al.
• Broad experience in designing web and mobile apps and ability to create lightweight prototypes for testing
• Deep care about aesthetics and a great eye for typography, layout, and visual design.
• Fluency in best practices for mobile design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques. Including knowledge of modern UI patterns, accessibility, design systems; Google Material, Android, Apple-style guides.
• Expert in typography, color theory, and icon systems.
• You are proactive and can work independently, while also pairing and collaborating with engineers and other designers.
• You care deeply about the details and having an exceptional level of fit and finish 
• System thinker with an understanding of atomic design principles 
• Strong understanding of project life cycle methodology (PLM) and testing, performance, security, compliance, and accessibility methodologies.
• Advanced knowledge of CMS platform design.

What We Offer

• Dog-friendly office near South Station, Boston
• Perks tailored for dog lovers including subsidized dog-walking services and paw-ternity leave
• Startup perks with big-company benefits
• Competitive salaries, all-inclusive health care, and equity participation
• A flexible vacation policy along with paid maternal and paternal leave
• Fully-stocked office snack bar and regular office events
• New iMacs and MacBook Pros, or laptops running Linux
• Continuing education including attending conferences

Embark is an equal opportunity workplace and values diversity at our company. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, age, disability status, marital status, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state or local laws. See also EEO is the Law.