User Experience Designer
Healthiest You
Full-time San Francisco, CA
Healthiest You is seeking to fill a position for a passionate User Interaction Designer / Visual Designer / Production Designer to help define the first-of-its-kind highly personalized health platform based on the latest in neuroscience research. This position will be focused primarily on web and mobile media, though a great candidate would also have working knowledge in print media. This is an excellent opportunity for a well-rounded designer to join an exciting startup that has tremendous content assets and to influence key design issues from the very beginning.
Responsibilities
-- Brainstorm concepts with the product team and develop original user-centered design concepts; iterate quickly through design options, prototyping, testing and validation
-- Execute designs based on established style guides (and maintain style guides) and lead in design presentations
-- Develop design specs including page flows, wireframes, use cases, user flows, and pixel-perfect comps for production
-- Express concepts in both online and print media in an effective manner
-- Push the boundaries of what's possible to create better experiences for our users
-- Establish a framework for measuring and monitoring the quality of user experience
Skills
-- Ability to work in rapidly changing, pre-Series A company. Flexible and willing to do what it takes to achieve important milestones.
-- Minimum of 5+ years experience designing outstanding web-based products for a consumer-oriented website as a key member of a design team
-- Portfolio of work demonstrating excellent interaction and visual design for the web
-- Attention to detail in visual arrangement, color, typography and flow
-- Ability to work at the speed of a startup, but with attention to detail producing results within defined scope on time
-- Demonstrated mastery of Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop (Adobe suite) to create mockups and documents
-- Solid understanding of design pitfalls, especially with regard to web standards and browser compatibility issues. Mobile application design experience a plus.
-- Ability to learn and apply new concepts and techniques
-- Previous experience designing for complex web applications with video content, personalization and
data visualization
-- Familiarity with designing for globalization and localization
-- Expertise in hand-coding HTML/CSS to create semantic, standards compliant versions of designs
-- Bonus: working/expert knowledge of Flash applications
-- Great attitude and strong work ethic
-- Ability to communicate design strategies effectively
-- BA/BS or above in Graphic Design, Human Factors, Information Design. Strong technical background a plus
Company Description
Healthiest You is a privately held company in the Bay Area. Healthiest You delivers a unique, brain-based online health programs to individuals, corporations and health care organizations. These highly personalized programs interact with individuals according to the way the brain naturally operates, taking advantage of each individual’s unique underlying motivators to maximize efficacy and allow each person to become more engaged and empowered in their health. Research for this program began in 2005. Healthiest You was founded in 2009 by Kelly Traver, MD, using the latest neuroscience research with the goal of helping people everywhere achieve optimal health by making lasting lifestyle changes.