About Us

Very Great is a digitally native, modern consumer product platform and holding company, growing a family of real, crave-worthy brands for a new generation. Based in New York City, Very Great is powered by a technology-enabled growth infrastructure that spans marketing, sales, creative, operations & supply chain, all designed to rapidly develop, launch and scale trend-forward consumer product brands. The current family of brands includes W&P, Courant and Wild One, with future brand launches currently in development.

About the Role

As a Freelance 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 translating ideas into impactful visual designs and proving why they are an effective solution.

This is a freelance, remote (Eastern hours, US-based) opportunity and reports to the Director of Web Services. This position pays $ 60 / hour.

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

• Attend occasional video/audio calls, participate in daily Slack stand up, and maintain regular communication via our Team’s Slack, Monday.com boards, and/or emails during business hours

• Champion the user journey at each phase of the design process from ideating 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 and prototyping through final hand-off to developers and quality assurance

• Maintain thorough visual consistency by closely adhering to brand style guides, asset libraries and grids

• Uphold existing file and asset library organization

• Translate brand team feedback into actionable design edits that are rooted in the original goal of the project

• Diligently self-manage your own project pipeline and ensure timely execution and delivery of work by communicating with the Project Manager

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

About You

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

• 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

• Well-versed in Sketch with experience in Adobe Creative Cloud and other design software (Principle, Figma, Zeplin, etc)

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

• Familiarity with User Testing

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

• Solid 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 (SVG usage, retina display support, aspect ratio, etc.)

• Nice to have: animation/motion + illustration skills

• Nice to have: HTML + CSS fundamentals