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Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade items, seeks a full time UI designer to join our growing team.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
You will work closely with the product and engineering teams.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Layout and design of pages for new features on Etsy.
- Work with other teams at Etsy to turn prose ideas into product specs.
- Make complex things appear effortlessly simple.
- Keep a notebook of almost outlandish ideas with scrawlings that in your mind are finished designs.
- Create Product Requirement Documents, which is how the Product team communicates with Engineering.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- Illustrator & Photoshop knowledge: nothing too fancy, but you should be able to make full-page layouts.
- 5+ years’ working as an HCI or UI/interaction design resource in a software product and/or web development environment required
- Know and love using a wiki to organize your ideas and communicate them to others.
- Basic HTML knowledge, enough to know what is an unrealistic layout for a Web page.
- A psychological understanding of the user experience. Web sites are at heart interactive applications that are supposed to have no learning for the user at all.
- Supreme patience.
- Comfortable in a dynamic working atmosphere.
- Excellent time-management skills
- Ability to learn as you go.
- Comfort with a fast-paced, always-on, highly ambiguous start-up environment.
- Proven track record with high standards of professionalism.
- Creative, resourceful, detail-oriented, highly organized.
- Ability to meet multiple objectives in an entrepreneurial environment with little supervision
- Self-motivated and highly trustworthy.
- Flexibility to work early or late hours as necessary.
- Teamwork skills essential; sense of humor required; overdeveloped egos must be checked at the door.
Desired:
- A strong appreciation for artisanal products and a DIY ethic.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
We launched in 2005 and it’s been great fun since then. Our mission is to enable people all over the world to make a living making things. We have about 1,000,000 members right now, and every day over 15,000 items are sold on the site. If you are customer-focused, data-driven, and enjoy working in a startup environment, we want to hear from you!
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