Our community in Skopje is on the lookout for a great Principal UX/UI Designer.

Symphony Digital Skopje is a technology house headquartered in San Francisco with engineering hubs in Skopje, Belgrade, Niš, Sarajevo, Novi Sad, and consulting offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Copenhagen, Denver, and London. We’re working with 4 out of Fortune’s 10 most admired brands of 2020 as well as some of the most ambitious and creative founders in the world. We have collaborated with clients who were educated at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard & trained at Facebook and Amazon.

Symphony Digital Skopje is a partner and preferred vendor of Google Ventures, StartX, and Y Combinator. We like to tackle challenging projects in fields such as biotech, machine learning, IoT, wearables, and augmented reality.

You will have a chance to work with one of the best people there are on some of the most challenging projects there are.

Job Description:

Operational

• Maintain constant communication with stakeholders and leadership regarding design process, status, risks, issues, and priorities.
• Generate trust and nurture open collaboration by actively facilitating, contributing, and engaging with cross-functional groups using user-centered or design thinking methodologies.
• Setting clear expectations and guidelines for the designers supporting your efforts
• Collaborate with team members to identify, prioritize and implement design solutions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
• Will need strong consulting skills to work with stakeholders as the primary UX lead
• Advocate for user-centered research and design principles.
• The interest and ability to mentor others

Design

• Use wireframes, flow diagrams, sketches, storyboards, mockups, and/or high-fidelity prototypes to communicate the user experience at various stages of the design process.
• Understanding complex technological concepts and communicating them in simplified, visual form
• Designing with consistency, attention to detail, and knowledge of inclusivity and accessibility
• Exhibiting familiarity with qualitative research methods and knowing how to incorporate research findings into designs
• Gather insights and test concepts with users in order to inform design decisions
• A commitment to excellence over perfection — you must be comfortable working nimbly with ‘just enough’ data to make informed decisions and operate within a fast-paced agile environment

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in product, web, mobile, interaction design
• Experience gathering user research and testing concepts with users to inform design decisions.
• Demonstrated understanding of user-centered design
• Portfolio of relevant user experience design and/or research project deliverables.
• Experience conducting or applying agile user research, with a focus on lean usability testing and building data-driven designs;
• Experience collaborating with engineers and operation teammates to translate the design into code and business solutions
• Expert level mastery of standard interactive design tools like Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, Invision, Principle, Figma, or similar software
• Ability to identify complex business problems and co-create solutions from a business, technological, and experience point of view.
• Еxperience with software such as Hotjar, Google Analytics, or similar is a plus
• Experience leading a UX team

Symphony Digital Skopje's hiring process is an important part of our culture. However, we know how hiring and recruitment processes might be overwhelming. Having that in mind, we've simplified and broken down the process visually.

Symphony Digital Skopje takes great pride in our company culture and team spirit. Our workplace perks and benefits are designed to help employees grow both personally and professionally. Become part of our collaborative environment offering support, mentoring, and guidance throughout your career.

Are you up for the challenge? Let’s give it a try!

When choosing new team members, we love to be mutually impressed. If we have impressed you, we challenge you to impress us and we will get back to you soon.

Want to find out more before applying? Feel free to contact our Stefani or Sanja. You can always meet us on Linkedin and www.symphony.is.