UI Designer

You’re a phenomenal User Interface Designer with a proven history of bringing beautiful & intuitive digital products to life. You have an undying passion for creating user-centered designs that remove friction and delight users. You work with a global team that creates smart, creative and impactful digital experiences that solve complex challenges.

Modus is a collaborative digital consultancy headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. A fully remote global team that creates clever, creative, and impactful digital experiences—designed for thoughtful humans, by thoughtful humans—we’re an interdisciplinary group of pros who question everything in the name of delivering bespoke products and solutions that transform businesses and delight users.

Our UI Designer is an integral part of our Experience Design (XD) team, working across a wide range of clients and products. A UI Designer at Modus typically reports to an Associate Creative Director, Experience Design and above.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed designs & interfaces for websites, apps, dashboards, and other digital products, from concepting through dev handoff
• Create concepts and prototypes for user testing & validation
• Support the Creative Director in driving the creative strategy forward by designing concepts to illustrate the vision
• Attend and participate in client presentations and internal work sessions; help capture and implement design feedback
• Attend team meetings and check-ins with manager to provide status updates and take in feedback on projects
• Help maintain and leverage existing style guides and design systems; assist with the documentation of design specs
• Work collaboratively within a cross-functional team (Client Strategy, Product Management, UX, Content Strategy, Marketing, Engineering and QA) to deliver user-centric designs
• Report on progress/updates and/or communicate with other team members, project leads, and our clients, as required
• Support design production efforts, such as creating and exporting dev-ready assets, conducting stock image searches, and photo-editing
• Other duties related to the position may arise from time to time and may be assigned

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of professional experience as a UI designer
• Experience with or strong interest in data visualization, dashboard design, and product design
• Pharma & Healthcare experience is preferred but not required
• Strong proficiency in Figma and preferably Adobe CC Suite
• Experience creating component-based designs for sites built using headless Content Management Systems
• Experience working with and maintaining a robust design system in Figma leveraging reusable components and variables, based on a thorough understanding of atomic design principles
• Strong knowledge of visual design principles (including typography, color theory, visual hierarchy and layout skills), user-centered design best practices, and digital design trends
• Must have a strong portfolio of previous UI design work
• College (or equivalent) degree with a focus in visual communications, marketing, interaction design, cognitive science, human factors, or related field a plus
• Experienced in translating business needs and user research into innovative and captivating concepts and designs
• Experienced in presenting detailed designs to internal and external teams
• Experience leveraging user research, web analytics data and SEO strategies to inform design decisions
• Strong self-management skills with ability to stay organized while juggling multiple projects and deadlines
• Proactive communicator who can collaborate with remote teams (previous experience working with remote teams is a plus)
• Experience working with development teams using agile methodologies
• Willingness to travel to client headquarters in NY Metro area once a month

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Modus offers an enriching, team-centric work environment; flexible work schedules; premium health care plans; 401(k) matching; the opportunity to work with the latest technologies; and other whole-person benefits such as access to wellness platforms; sponsored training courses and certifications; and creative, hands-on team-building events that embrace our passionate company culture that spans the globe.

If you’re self-motivated and enjoy collaborating with wildly talented people who are as dedicated to helping each other as they are to helping shape the digital future, we can’t wait to hear from you.