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Kandu – Lead UI/UX Designer

New York, NY

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Kandu is hiring a full-time UI/UX Product Designer to lead a data-driven design initiative enabling anyone to express themselves by creating native interactive media without writing a single line of code. We are a diverse team of media and technology leaders on a bold mission to create a vibrant maker community around an intuitive, fun tool that creates an endless array of user-generated experiences.

Our ideal candidate is an open collaborator that can narrow a broader company vision into specific user-driven product narratives. You will work in a fast-paced, nimble environment to ideate, test, and implement designs of user stories. We strive for agility, incorporating historical findings from product data, user testing, and stakeholder feedback into a cohesive feature set that delivers on the promise of Kandu.

Responsibilities 

  • Working with product team members to conduct user research and analyze product KPIs
  • Conducting competitive analysis on feature sets of products that compete for our customers’ time
  • Collaborating with engineering team to translate research findings into creative, executable design solutions capable of achieving measurable company goals
  • Creating strategic product alignment between community, product, and engineering teams by communicating insights and rationale behind design decisions
  • Regularly delivering user interaction flows, wireframes, high fidelity mockups/ prototypes, and visual designs
  • Drafting fully-baked specifications and UI designs for engineering to implement
  • Continually improving design team best practices while successfully managing projects

Nice to haves 

  • Prior mobile game design work
  • Front-end development skills to prototype front-end applications in Unity and/or web
  • Experience designing applications for tablets
  • Prior experience working on agile development teams
  • Interest or experience in working on youth-focused products

If you’re interested in this opening, please send a link to your portfolio to mn@kandu.com.

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