Offers “Amazon”

Expires soon Amazon

Product Designer - Mobile Apps - Goodreads

  • San Francisco (City and County of San Francisco)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Design/UX/UI

Job description



DESCRIPTION

Want to change the lives of millions of readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading? As a Mobile Product Designer, you will be responsible for our iOS, Android, Kindle tablets and E-readers in collaboration with product managers and engineers.

Goodreads is currently reimagining our products and brand. With millions of active users and top-rated apps on all major platforms, this is your opportunity to take our apps to the next level.

Product Design at Goodreads brings together the practices of interaction design, visual design, and related disciplines into a single, user-centric design role. Our designers are generalists who translate user insights and business needs into product experiences that delight, generate visual concepts that exceed expectations, and work with developers to deliver those concepts with a seamless fit and finish.

Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, and we have over 90 million members. Our office is located in downtown San Francisco. Goodreads is an Amazon company, so you will have opportunities to partner with Kindle and Amazon teams to elevate the reading experience for millions of customers.
Responsibilities:
· Own design for iOS, Android, Kindle tablets and E-reader applications.
· Determine future design direction for our mobile apps and craft, pitch, and validate long-term design strategies.
· Partner with product management and engineering teams to define roadmaps and prioritize requirements.
· Translate ideas and concepts into world-class designs for iOS and Android applications by crafting journey maps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and beautiful mock-ups.
· Drive user research projects to develop the understanding of the customer and validate design choices before and after development.
· Give and solicit feedback from other designers to continually raise our bar for quality.
· Advocate for design by sharing your work and presenting cross-functionally, while being able to precisely articulate design rationale.
· Develop scalable and flexible design frameworks to maintain clean and simple designs.

Desired profile



BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in product design or similar role.
· Experience designing on mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Mobile Web).
· Experience with every aspect of the design process, including: user research, information architecture, concepting, wireframes, and pixel-perfect specs.
· A portfolio that showcases your experience as a mobile designer.
· Bachelor's degree or commensurate experience.
· Adept with a variety of design and prototype tools such as Sketch, Invision, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

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