About Us

Very Great is a New York-based company launch platform, building next-generation consumer brands. Founded in 2016 by Eric Prum and Josh Williams, Very Great empowers passionate entrepreneurs with best-in-class creative, manufacturing, sales and marketing infrastructure to rapidly develop, launch and scale digitally-native consumer product brands. The current family of brands includes W&P, Courant and Wild One, with future brand launches under development.

About the Role

As a UX/UI designer on our Web Services team, you will collaborate closely with our brands and developers to design and deliver end-to-end dynamic, intuitive, and user-friendly experiences across all digital platforms. You are an adept problem-solver with a keen creative eye and can expertly collaborate cross-functionally. You are skilled at managing your own work and are experienced in articulating and translating ideas into impactful visual digital expressions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with brand teams to build a keen understanding of our individual brand needs, our current customer base and work together to design aesthetically appealing and intuitive interfaces that will further augment our customer UI experience

• Champion the user journey at each phase of the design process from ideation and problem-solving cross-functionally through to detailed visual design solutions

• Participate in the e-Commerce roadmap planning process to help identify opportunities/ emerging trends and aid in providing scope and estimates to projects and tasks

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research to make thoughtful, innovative, and informed decisions on improvements or to solve digital challenges to current UI experience

• Execute all phases of the design process from user flow, site maps, conception, wireframing, prototyping through final hand-off to developers and assist in user-testing

• Diligently manage your own project pipeline and ensure timely execution and delivery of work

• Create clear and effective design deliverables that can be seamlessly transitioned to our developers

About You

• 5+ years experience in a fast-paced e-commerce, start-up environment

• At least two years in a Senior Web Designer position

• Strong portfolio demonstrating a focused body of UX/UI work and highlighting your design processes, problem-solving skills, and capabilities

• High level understanding of common Web UI patterns and style guides for Web and Mobile experiences

• Expertise in UX flows, personas, research and best practices

• Mastery of Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator) and other prototyping software (Sketch, Figma, InVision, Abstract, Zeplin) 

• Critical thinker, highly detailed oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Adept at managing your own time across multiple, concurrent running projects

• Enjoys working collaboratively with fellow designers and developers

• Working knowledge of standards for web assets (images, videos)

• Nice to have: animation/motion + illustration skills

• Nice to have: working knowledge of HTML + CSS

*This role will begin working remotely and move onsite when our office reopens.