UI/UX Designer
YieldStreet is disrupting the trillion-dollar lending and investment industry. We recently raised $178m in financing from world-class venture capitalists to help us scale. Our investor demand is soaring, and our team is expected to double in size this year. Do you have what it takes to join a booming startup that is changing the investment industry?
About YieldStreet
YieldStreet is building the largest global digital wealth management platform to change the way wealth is created. With an investor-first approach, our investor community builds a diversified portfolio of investments outside of the stock market to generate passive income. YieldStreet is giving unprecedented access to asset classes such as Real Estate, Marine, Legal, Art & Commercial. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices in Brazil, Argentina, Malta and Greece.
We believe top notch technology and data can help us build the world’s most robust alternative investment platform and create financial independence for all. Join us!
About the role
YieldStreet is looking for an experienced UX/UI Designer with a strong sense of enthusiasm, and meticulous and wildly creative aesthetic. You are a team player with a high level of dedication and an infectious, positive personality who is experienced in designing complex UX/UI solutions to meet customer needs and constantly push creative boundaries.
There’s no shortage of ideas under our roof, so your ability to help us meet our business goals in the face of infinite creative opportunity is what matters most. In order to be successful in this role you will be extremely creative, quick thinking, and resourceful, with high attention to detail and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. If this sounds like you, join us!
What you will do
- Translate complex business ideas, needs and goals into simple, beautiful user-friendly high-fidelity UI designs.
- Able to design and think through UI elements in multiple states so that a user can anticipate a seamless and cohesive experience.
- Experience with best practices for micro animations and opinions on where we can drive results across our mobile app, web app, marketing site and other landing pages.
- Work as a bridge for marketing and product design endeavors to ensure UI elements work as a system within all builds.
- Investigate, and help lead user research strategies and exercises to develop concise
user personas that are both thoughtful and easily digested for stakeholders. - Think both long- and short-term to meet the constraints of a continuous release process while iterating toward a future vision.
- Test, improve and optimize UI and UX for existing features and products.
- Develop wireframes and designs for product (across platforms), our mobile app, website, landing pages, and emails.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Growth Teams regularly to ensure business and user goals are met.
- Manage, track and QA projects from conception to delivery with a proactive and collaborative attitude with Dev Team.
- Bring our story to life with beautiful visuals that fully convey our brand and mission.
Required Skills
- 4-6 years professional experience designing complex consumer based UI solutions.
- Proficiency in Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop) and understanding of code implementation, including CSS, Javascript, and HTML5 a plus.
- Be autonomous, yet collaborative. Take ownership of your work and responsibility for every detail each step of the way. We value design team collaboration and never do your work in a vacuum.
- Demonstrated experience working with product managers and software engineers in an agile environment.
- Ability to work quickly and meticulously.
- An insatiable desire to challenge oneself while having a restless, creative mind.
- B2C background is a plus.
- Digital portfolio of unique work, showcasing experience designing superior creative specifically for UI design and UX thinking that met its business objectives a must
What Makes You Successful
Own and Execute:
- Gets things done, with both a short and long-term view in mind
- Be able to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to re-prioritize on a consistent basis
- Exemplary planning and organizational skills, along with a high attention to detail
Decide with Data:
- Be pragmatic and outcome-oriented, leveraging data to make decisions
- Detect new or missed opportunities that will help YieldStreet grow and improve regularly
- Be able to package data so it can be easily digested, analyzed and reacted to
Be Passionate:
- Bring a focus of YieldStreet’s vision to your day to day tasks
- Bet on your strengths; allow these skills to be absorbed by leaders on your team to make an impact
- Be known for authenticity, honesty, and integrity
Stay Curious:
- Never take no for an answer, be able to dissect an issue and come up with creative solutions
- Ask questions. At YieldStreet we believe that progress stops when you stop asking questions
- Focus on team collaboration and communication
Benefits
We offer an attractive market compensation and benefits package including a competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, stock option plan, health, dental & vision benefits, life insurance, 401(k) match, unlimited paid vacation, sabbatical and paid holidays and that's before you even step in the office!
This is an opportunity to work with a group of diverse, smart, and friendly people from 8 different countries who speak a total of 17 different languages. Our team is comprised of successful entrepreneurs with combined exits of over $1B, and we get social with each other during happy hours, exercise classes and team off sites in our work hard/play hard culture. We're located in a beautiful new office in Midtown, our building is close to most major subway lines.
*** Please, no solicitors or recruiters. We're saving our dollars to pay the right candidate!