Flick is an Edinburgh based company focused on the burgeoning esports and video game content markets. If you are a top tier engineer who is interested in gaming, esports, video, mobile and/or social; loves hard technical challenges; and wants to work with a proven team then let’s talk!
With over 2 billion gamers and nearly 700 million people who regularly watch gaming video content, this is a huge market. We want to give these avid fans an entirely new way of sharing their gaming experience with their friends.
We’re looking for our first product designer to help us design and deliver a product that users love to interact with on a daily basis. We pride ourselves on building a great experience and working well as a team to deliver the best solution possible for our users. You'll be an integral part in helping shape our vision and bringing it to reality.
Being involved at such an early stage in a startup’s life cycle means that we’re looking for a versatile designer that enjoys wearing many hats. The ideal candidate will have experience designing across platforms (iOS, Android & Web), has conducted user trials, has worked closely with engineers on various teams and likes to help drive features from concept to completion.
You’ll be the first designer in our small team (team of 6) and you’ll be responsible for helping craft the vision and execution of an application that will be used daily.
Responsibilities
Go from mockups and ideas through to execution on iOS and Android (going from pencil sketches to delivering final assets)
Design and craft features that form an elegant and delightful end-to-end experience through our product
Help translate research ideas into new products and features - Helping the team to break down problems into deliverable feature sets (MVP through through to adding polish).
Prototyping detailed interactions - a vital part of Flick will be a strong design execution on complicated user tasks and interactions
Defining our visual & interactive design language across the application (this is a new green-field project that allows you to design the applications from scratch)
Designing reusable UI components to help accelerate workflows for designers and engineers
Solicit feedback from everyone in the team and our users in a cohesive and executable manner (lots of user testing along the way)
Help with design workshops, carding up user-stories and defining personas etc
Spending a lot of time in Sketch :)
Designing charming animations that help bring the application to life
Requirements
Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly state the rationale behind your concepts
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
Excellent prototyping skills (Pencil sketches, Sketch, InVision, Principle, Figma etc)
Ability to form fantastic working relationships with engineers and team members
Experience with shipping consumer products across platforms (Web, android & iOS) - examples of your work is essential
Seasoned experience working either in an agency or as an in-house product designer
Ability translate user requirements into elegant solutions that solves a customer need
Excellent design practices - applying the correct technique for the problem at hand & experience with user testing, wireframing and prototyping
Ability to create delightful animated interactions where necessary and examples of designing fun interactions that engage users
Passion for delivering an exceptional product and passion for your craft
Links to your previous work, prototypes, and your portfolio (shots on Dribble and Behance) are essential
Benefits:
Flexible work hours - we don’t focus on 9-5, you know when you work best
Learning and development is key: we’ll fund what you need, we have a very healthy budget for training, conferences, online tutorials etc, just let us know what you need
The best equipment and software to help you execute your day-to-day (PC or Mac, laptop, monitors and accessories)
Full holiday allowance (25 days + bank holidays)
Highly competitive salary
Equity in a new startup with a highly experienced team
Perks:
Building an innovative, first of its kind product and being involved in a startup from the outset with a highly experienced team that’s done it before
A design-led organisation (one of our founders is a designer) - Great products are built on the foundation that we understand our users and we test creative designs with them, and we surprise and delight them as they interact with our product
We value the qualitative and quantitative view for the bigger picture (not vanity metrics)
Regular 10% time (1 day every other week) to play around with new concepts and new software
Regular all-in hack days
Product, Design and Engineering all in one place for easy collaboration amongst the whole team
A fun place to work! We work hard but we also enjoy ourselves and understand there’s life outside work
No hierarchy or politics, just good work with passionate, smart people
Salary
- £30-50k per annum