UX Designer - Naya (Remote)
Naya is a collaboration platform built for those involved in industrial/product/and thingamajig design. Founded in 2019 out of Harvard’s Design School, Naya empowers creators to bring more sustainable, inclusive, and unique ideas to life. They are seeking a UX Designer to join their team!
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Users include an array of creative teams launching new product lines — from creators running kick-starter campaigns to product and R&D teams at Google, Bose, Nike, Adidas and MillerKnoll to design consultancies like IDEO and Frog.
UX is at the core of Naya — the end to end experience for users is constantly re-imagined — from how we develop design briefs and scopes to how we collaborate across product design ideas to how we manage, document, and story-tell our processes. As a UX designer, you will get to tackle all of these challenges and design new ways of addressing them while also integrating the next generation of AI tools to enhance product design even further.
Who We Are
What You Will Need
Experience running design sprints and/or workshops
Knowledge in sketching, wire-framing and producing high-fidelity prototypes in Figma or equivalent app
Good design aesthetic (portfolio or examples of work needed)
Can produce and give compelling presentations
Experience with customer and user outreach and UX Interviews
Can coordinate well with dev teams
Familiar with KPI tracking
Bonus. Understands physical product design and fabrication
Bonus. Experience with some graphic design or illustrations
Bonus. Experience with service design
Some Opportunities...
How might we create a UX that feels seamless?
How might we surprise and delight our users?
How might we better solve for customers’ pain points?
How might we design UX that will help us make the journey efficient, creative, collaborative, simple, and fun?
How might we design nudges for greater sustainability and social responsibility?
How might we seamlessly incorporate our ML and AI apps into the experience?
Who You Are
Scrappy + Growth Mindset.
You will need to try many things before something sticks.
Strategist.
You love UX but understand systems and business strategy too.
Obsessed with quality.
One wrong pixel is like the pea under the princess’s mattress. It drives you bananas! You love to go through iterations upon iterations to get things right.
Eye for Design.
You know what is good design and follow designers and design magazines like it’s your job.
Obsession with customers.
Can you feel their pain? Do you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about their experience?
Organized.
Sticky notes, calendars, to-do lists, whatever. This job requires a lot of time management.
Fast!
A bias towards action and speed of executing will be paramount. You love to go through iterations upon iterations to get things right.
Imaginative.
Shower thoughts, idea lists, wake up in the middle of the night to sketch something?
Collaborative.
You are a team player. Getting feedback by calling friends, experts, or clients to walk through problems are the norm for you. You’ll find the answer!
Builder.
By nature you love to make things. Strategies, plans, platforms.
Phygital.
Your sandbox is UI but you also love physical products and experiment in this area too.
Tech Lover.
You follow MIT Tech review and spend your down time testing new apps.