Senior UX Designer / UX Designer | シニアUXデザイナー ・ UXデザイナー

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Job details

Company overview

Client is a leading Tokyo fintech company innovating the way customers interact with their e-commerce favorites. A newly-minted Japanese unicorn startup, they are expanding very quickly. A highly-international office environment with people from all over the world, they have been very heavily funded and are on their way to a successful IPO.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Clarify user needs through research and data, develop deep insights, generate concepts, realize with high-fidelity design, in order to craft how people will interact with the services we design
• Proactively gather information from other departments to get deep understanding of the business case for customer experience improvement
• Identify potential opportunities to improve native app, web app, website and any other user experience
• Frame and visualize the context of design solutions. Present the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale both verbally and visually such as sketching, storyboards, sitemaps, wireframes, flowcharts, prototypes, presentations that help the team understand what to build and why
• Collaborate within the feature team composed of product managers, engineers, data scientists, marketers and researchers to lead and take ownership of the consumer experience.
• Monitor and lead ensuring development of consistent user experience across all areas of the service, by maintaining design system and guidelines
• Own overall end-to-end user experience from the big picture down to specifics of UX flow and UI functions as implemented
• Evaluate output of other UX designers to ensure quality of design work if the design meets business requirements and proper customer experience
• Envision and develop intuitive, scalable, and engaging interactions and experience designs for multiple platforms

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• 5+ years of experience of Interaction Design and/or Service Design across varied users, business problems, and devices
• 3+ years of experience designing digital products specifically with the local language tailored to Japanese consumers
• 3+ years of experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes
• 3+ years of experience creating experience maps, user journeys and service blueprints, interaction models, flows, and wireframes
• 3+ years of experience with rapid prototyping methods, ranging from paper sketching to digital prototypes
• 2+ years of experience of managing design systems applied for multiple device products
• 2+ years of requirements gathering and communication between all design teams and project workstreams
• Design portfolio demonstrating the UX design process associated with a mobile app for iOS, Android, and the web
• Ability to document, present and manage stakeholder meetings in English. Collaborate with the cross-functional team communicating in English and Japanese. Design deliverables in Japanese. 

Salary

8 - 13 million yen

Location

Tokyo