UX Designer

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Role Summary

As Stride’s UX Designer, you will work with the CEO and a team of developers to create and improve engaging and satisfying user experiences with new platform features for both travelers and travel companies. You will manage the roadmap, set milestones, and ensure that our engineering team is producing quality deliverables. As our key product evangelist, you will work with the CEO to define product strategy while integrating our platform with third-party APIs. You will manage the look and feel of our products, and help develop new ideas through research and testing. To succeed in this role, you must possess a unique blend of UX, design, business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality with a roll-up-the-sleeves ‘get it done’ attitude. Does lower pay, big challenges, bigger impact, small talented team, high equity and upside, and fun colleagues sound good to you?

Responsibilities

Manage product development lifecycle from concept to design to QA to usertesting
Collaborate with engineers, including a remote team, to hit sprint deadlines
Create wireframes and pixel perfect designs to meet business needs balancing UX, SEO, CRO and other business goals
Work with CEO to set product vision, development priorities and goals and coordinate across different functional teams
Create beautiful public facing web pages that delight users and achieve biz goals
Bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex product designs
Generate prototypes at a very fast pace and iteratively make them better
Design UI and interaction layers using best practices and latest Web/Mobile trends
Analyze feature usage data, user behavior and feedback to improve user experience

Qualifications

2 to 5 years of design experience - preferably on a consumer internet product
Expertise with design tools like Photoshop, Illustrator / experience using HTML5, CSS3 is required.
Knowledge in creating wireframes, process flows & visuals
Working knowledge of Web Usability & User Centered Design Methodologies
Must communicate ideas easily verbally and in writing with engineers and marketing
Preference to experiment with new designs, use data, and respond well to feedback
Desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment with varied responsibilities
High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects at a time and successfully meet deadlines
Strong problem solving, analytic, and decision making skills; able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and formulate actions plans to resolve issues
Fun and good sense of humor

Bonus Attributes

Experience in ecommerce, marketplace or other transaction oriented consumer web apps preferred
Project and team management skills
Want to step up and take on some roles typically handled by a PM

Why Work With Stride

We are a small, growing team backed by travel tech industry veterans. Working alongside the Co-founders, you will influence key decisions during a very pivotal time for our company and have an impact from day one. You will help grow the business while knowing that you are improving the travel experience for our users and helping our global tour operator partners thrive as sustainable ventures.

Stride Offers:

Seed-funded startup comp package with generous stock options and rapid increase potential
Flexible work schedules
Unlimited vacation (with travel partner perks!)
Open, collaborative and conveniently located office at an awesome co-working space in the heart of SoMa, San Francisco
Fun work environment and team spirit - Regular company lunches and happy hours plus quarterly team outings & parties
The ability to make a major impact as an early team member at a growing startup

Apply!

To apply, please drop us an email with:

A brief description of what appeals most about joining Stride
Resume & LinkedIn profile link
Portfolio

EMAIL: careers@travelstride.com

About Travelstride

Stride is a travel tech investor-backed startup changing the way travelers find and book their perfect vacation.

Stride is the first meta search marketplace for all organized vacations including multi-day tours & adventure travel packages. Stride offers thousands of trips from over 400 leading companies visiting over 130 countries on every continent.

Our mission is making authentic, active world travel more accessible.

Stride’s leadership and investors are travel industry and internet veteran founders and executives from Kayak, Hipmunk, Jetblue, TDG Ventures, Intrepid Travel, Viator, and Google. The company is headquartered in downtown San Francisco (SoMa).

UX Designer

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