Responsibilities
- Translate high-level business needs into detailed designs with guidance from senior designers.
- Optimize designs for implementation in iterative vertical slices.
- Gather feedback and gain buy-in from leadership, sales, and customer success teams.
- Actively participate in feature ideation and contribute from conception to implementation.
- Assist in the maturation of BlastPoint's UI framework by contributing to our component-based design system.
- Proactively identify opportunities for component reuse and new component requirements early in the design process.
- Contribute to enhancing the beauty, consistency, and intuitiveness of BlastPointβs UI.
Professional Requirements
- Bachelorβs degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field of study.
- 1+ year of work experience designing interactive digital products.
- Proficiency in modern interactive design tools such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, etc.
- Familiarity with the basics of web technologies and their design implications.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
- Employment is subject to a background check.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Interest in current trends in UX/UI for interacting with AI models.
- Experience assisting in designing UIs centered around data and geospatial visualizations.
- Experience contributing to user experience testing or feedback sessions.
- Familiarity with user behavior tracking tools like Pendo.
- Basic knowledge of modern UI frameworks (e.g., React).
- Ability to support multiple ongoing concurrent projects in cadence with our product teams.
- Attention to detail.
- A willingness to travel to the Pittsburgh, PA office periodically (roughly 2-4 times per year), provided that it is safe to do so.
