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Design Lead (Mobile)

Company Overview

IRL aims to solve technology addiction by bringing people together in real life. Our goal is to help our users engage more with friends in-person to boost their overall happiness, encourage curiosity, and make the task of organizing hang outs a breeze.

Our team is focused on building an intuitive app to facilitate people spending more time together in person by making it easy and fun to find and plan things to do together. We’re looking for self-motivated engineers who have a passion for building high-quality consumer-facing applications.

*COVID-19 Note: While we still ultimately retain our goal of facilitating people spending more time together in person, due to COVID-19 we have shifted our focus to online events and successfully raised a Series B round (https://techcrunch.com/2020/09...)

Job Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Design Lead who will work throughout IRL’s entire product lines, iOS, Android, and Web. You’ll be working to guide millions of users through an easy and intuitive experience. you'll join a tight-knit, collaborative team, who are dedicated to helping IRL grow as a top Social App.

What you’ll be doing

  • Conceive of innovative new features and bring them to life (visual design, interaction design, and prototyping)
  • Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams, bring thoughtful and researched opinions to any discussion
  • Take ownership of a design methodology, build process for handoff to engineers
  • Build simple and intuitive experiences and flows
  • Have discussions on all designs, and be flexible when giving/receiving feedback
  • Bring passion and empathy for our users, be a voice to bring joy to their experience with IRL
  • Unrelenting standards when it comes to design detail and execution

Requirements

  • A portfolio that reflects your strengths (Please provide a link in resume/application)
  • 5+ years experience designing and shipping mobile applications
  • Experience with information architecture
  • Experience designing for responsive and mobile design
  • Experience with user research and usability testing
  • Experience crafting icons
  • Excellent file and asset organization
  • Experience in brand design
  • Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
  • Experience with hi-fidelity visual concepts and interactive prototypes
  • Knowledge of iOS design principles
  • Knowledge of Google Material design principles
  • Proven track record of delivering high quality products
  • Ability to move in fast start-up environment


Nice to know

  • Experience crafting animations for AriBnb’s Lottie framework
  • Illustration capabilities
  • Experience with consumer applications
  • Experience working on social features

Experience with:

  • InVision
  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • Adobe Creative Suite