Senior UX Designer (R&D stage)

MacPaw is a software company that develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS. Today, our products have more than 30 million users worldwide.
At MacPaw, we believe humans and technology can reach their greatest potential together.
MacPaw is proud to be Ukrainian. The support and development of Ukraine are significant parts of the company's culture. MacPaw gathers open-minded people who support each other and aspire to change the world around us.
We seek a highly skilled Senior UX Designer to join our team.
As a member of our UX Center, you will oversee experience and connect research results with possible design solutions.
This role is for those who are ready to challenge the status quo and create out of the box. There will be a lot of R&D, and only a couple solutions will be implemented. This role is about conceptualizing, prototyping, researching, testing, presenting, and debating innovative alternative solutions. Within this you'll have a lot of freedom of creativity, the ability to make things different.
Great ideas have a way of becoming innovative products, services, and customer experiences. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish.
In this role, you will:

• Identify the target audience's needs and problems based on the present quality and quantity of data
• Create innovative and alternative concepts and prototypes based on research data
• Design solutions development with the product's goals and technical limitations taken into account through conducting research together with the team, with a subsequent analysis of the received data and insights search
• Participate in the product and/or company's design community initiatives through developing better communication, mutual choice of tools, experience, knowledge and feedback exchange, launching and coordination of additional projects in the area

Skills you'll need to bring:

• 4+ years in product or UX design
• Portfolio demonstrating innovative design solutions, problem-solving skills, hands-on expertise
• Innovative vision for our product experiences leveraging user interface principles, materials, inputs etc.
• Strong understanding of HCI principles, understanding of the development process
• Experience in designing detailed, interactive prototypes to simulate the full product experience
• User advocacy
• Good experience in UX research
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present design ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proactivity, self-organization, innovation
• Experience working with Figma (it is a primary design tool in MacPaw, so you need to have practical skills and be confident using it)
• Upper-Intermediate English
• Fluent Ukrainian

As a plus:

• High level of curiosity for technology amplified by your design craft
• Experience with AI products design
• Experience with MacOS

What We Offer

• We are a Ukrainian company, and we stand with Ukraine against russian aggression
  
  • We maintain workplaces for the mobilized Macpawians and provide financial support to colleagues or their families affected by the war. Here you also can read about MacPaw Foundation, which intends to help save the lives of Ukrainian defenders and provide relief to as many civilians as possible.
• We are committed to our veterans
  
  • Our Veteran Career and Empowerment Program is designed to ensure our veterans and active military personnel receive the recognition, support, and opportunities they deserve.
• Hybrid work model
  
  • Whether to work remotely or at the hub is entirely up to you. If you decide to mix it, our Kyiv office, which works as a coworking space, is open around the clock. The office is supplied with UPS and Starlink for an uninterrupted work process. We also rent space in the Promprylad Coworking in Ivano-Frankivsk and reimburse the costs of renting a coworking space in any other city. If you decide to work at home, we cover the costs spent on your workspace organization: portable power stations, power banks, etc.
• Your health always comes first
  
  • We guarantee life insurance starting on your first working day. Besides, we cover 100% of your medical insurance costs and 50% for your dependents. We also cover dental and massages and offer a 50% refund for psychotherapy.
• Flexible working hours
  
  • You can choose a schedule that is comfortable for you. No one here tracks your clock in/clock out because MacPaw is built on trust and cooperation.
• Space to grow both professionally and personally
  
  • Whatever your dreams and aspirations are, we got you. Education budget, annual development reviews, free English classes, and regular lectures. We also offer personal coaching with organizational coaches.
• Teams we are proud of
  
  • We build honest, transparent, and reliable relationships within teams. Every Macpawian can improve processes and implement their ideas. We encourage open and constructive feedback and provide training for Macpawians on giving and receiving feedback.
• Office designed for people (and pets)
  
  • Our office has it all. A spacious workplace with enough room for sitting up, lying down, and running around. A gym for recreation, fitness, and yoga. Cozy kitchens with coffee, snacks, and lunches. Sleeping/meditation rooms. A terrace with a view where we throw summer parties. Also, we have two cats living in the office, and you are welcome to bring your pets to the office (we have separate floors for cats and dogs).
• Time-off policy that covers life's needs
  
  • 20 vacation days, unlimited paid sick leaves, xDays (2 days a month to work on side projects), days for personal time-off designed to help you take care of essential matters in your personal life, and parental leaves. On top of all that, sabbaticals are open after 5 years of being with MacPaw.
• Join social initiatives with MacPawCares
  
  • MacPaw participates in numerous humanitarian aid and charity projects across many fields, and you are welcome to jump in and spend up to 24 working days per year making the world a better place.
• We're an equal opportunity employer. Here is a safe place for applicants of all backgrounds.
  
  • We are hiring talented humans. Meaning with all our variety of backgrounds and identities, including service members and veterans, women, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and other often underrepresented groups. MacPaw does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.