Senior UI Designer

Tokyo
Partial Remote
Full-time
December 23, 2023

Job Description

We are looking for a director/UI designer who can think about the best interface and specifications for Colorkrew's services and client work and incorporate them into the design.

Your mission is to maximize customer experience and business impact through design.

In Colorkrew's services, you will communicate with a variety of team members from different professions, including product owners and engineers. In client work, you will also communicate with clients.

Responsibilities

Information design and requirements definition
Devising user stories based on hypotheses and data
Product UI design

Application Requirements

Direction skills to design information and define requirements for issues.
User interface design skills that can be incorporated into UI design.
Communication skills to work closely with clients, product owners, and engineers in the conception, design, and development of products.
Linguistic skills to explain the intent of the designed design to other professionals.
Experience using graphic creation tools (Illustrator, Photoshop) and prototyping tools (Figma)
3+ years of experience in UI design for web and client applications
English or Japanese skill
Submission of a portfolio: one that clearly shows your role (attachment of a separate sheet is acceptable)

Nice to have

Programming knowledge such as HTML / CSS / JavaScript
Knowledge of psychology, cognitive psychology, sociology, anthropology, etc.
Experience in training designers

Working Conditions

Employment Status

Full-time
Probationary period: First 3 months after joining the company. (During this period your contract conditions will be the same as that of a permanent employee.)

Work Hours and Work Place

Scheduled working hours:9 AM – 6 PM (Core time:10 AM - 2 PM)
Hybrid work style of coming to the office and working remotely. Many of us come to the office about half a day a week. You can come to the office at your free time, avoiding crowded train times.
There are also people who live in remote areas outside the Tokyo suburbs, and they basically work remotely. They come to the office about once a month on business trips.
We have no plans to go back to office commuting altogether. We will continue to do hybrid work, mainly remote work.

Holidays

Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break, etc.)
Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, sick leave

Salary

12 months salary and bonuses paid in summer and winter.
Based on skills, experience, and abilities
Reviewed 2 times a year

Benefits

Various social insurance benefits included
Work from home available
Support programs for self-improvement and career development (language learning, etc.)
Monthly business trip expenses for domestic local residents (up to 30,000 yen)

Selection Process

Submission of portfolio
2 (or 3) interviews with our designer and product owner and HR
Interview with our CEO

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About カラクル

株式会社カラクルは「世界のシゴトをたのしくする」というビジョンの元、自社サービスやコンサルティングなど多岐にわたるIT事業を展開しています。個人とチームが最大限に力を発揮できるフラットな組織で、開発チームには様々な国から優秀な人材が集まっています。フルフレックス制度、リモートワーク制度など、テックカンパニーらしいユニークな福利厚生が充実。コーチ制度があり、優秀な先輩エンジニアと一緒に働くことで経験を積み、成長し続けたい人にはすばらしい環境です。業務中の言語は日本語もしくは英語で、チームに日本語がわからない人がいれば日本人メンバーも英語でプロジェクトを進めるといった形で、プロジェクトチームごとに柔軟に対応しています。外国籍メンバーは日本語を学び、日本人メンバーは英語を学ぶことで、お互いに言語面でサポートし合う文化があるようです。今は英語もしくは日本語に自信がなくても積極的にコミュニケーションをとり、語学を学んでいく姿勢があれば活躍できる環境なので、英語/日本語どちらか話せれば応募可能です。世界各国から優秀なエンジニアが集まる環境で挑戦したい方にオススメです！

They’re building several in-house products such as Colorkrew Biz, which is a business concierge service that solves administrative issues using QR and authentication technologies, and Goalous, a social network for companies that focus on managing company goals like OKRs.

They also do consulting work across a wide variety of areas such as cloud integration, marketing and promotion, payments, server architecture and more. Colorkrew’s development team is made up of talented people from many different countries, and they maintain a vibrant, international environment. It’s also one of the first companies in Japan to adopt a truly flat hierarchy, eliminating all job titles and departments in order to maximize the impact of each individual. At Colorkrew, they have a culture that values employee autonomy, and flexibility.

They want their employees to be able to do their best work, so Colorkrew allows remote work, as well as “20% time” as long as you complete your scheduled work. They also have some great benefits. Thanks to their supportive company culture that fosters growth and teamwork, the average tenure of their engineers is about 5 years, which is much longer than most tech companies in Japan. This is a testament to how much people enjoy working at Colorkrew.

They also hire new graduates and interns to work on their engineering team, which is relatively rare for companies hiring non-Japanese engineers and candidates from abroad (most companies limit their overseas hiring to more experienced positions). We think this could be a great opportunity for someone who wants to start their engineering career in Japan and work alongside talented senior engineers to gain experience while also experiencing Japan!

Japanese Language Policy
If you can communicate actively as necessary to complete your work, you don’t need Japanese skills. Colorkrew is becoming an international company, but there are still a lot of employees working there that can’t speak English, so the more Japanese you know the better.
Visa Sponsorship
Colorkrew sponsors visas for international candidates, and will prepare the necessary documents for submission to integration.
Paid Leave
- Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday), Japanese national holidays, New Year's vacation
- Paid Leave (starting with 10 days, Add according to regulations)
- Summer vacations(5days) and winter vacations(5days)
- Bereavement Leave
- Maternity/paternity and caregiving support
- Caregiving leave
- Paid childbirth leave and Celebration money
- Paid honeymoon leave and Celebration money
- Condolence money and paid leave
Benefits
🍔 Lunch allowance

👩‍🎓 Japanese lessons for non-Japanese speaking employees

👕 No dress code (except when meeting with clients)

🚃 Full transportation coverage

💜 Social security/insurance benefits included
Remote Work
Colorkrew implements day a mixture of remote and in-office work, with most members coming to the office 2 days per week.

In general, Colorkrew is very flexible about remote work, allowing anyone to work remotely.
Work style
- Flex time (core hours 10:00-14:00, 60 minute lunch)
Diversity
Colorkrew's model is super flat. Positions: none. Hierarchy: none. Colorkrew has no use for positions that are only about managing other people. There is no need to be chained to one department.

It's an environment for challenges regardless of age, nationality, or academic background. Everyone shows their value as a player on the same team. Put your efforts out in the open. This is the Colorkrew way. Expose yourself to different points of view. Gain insights that could not be made from your experience and common sense alone.

When information is in the open, you can understand what others are thinking, what choices others will make and why. Know your partner. Know your situation. This open thinking is the framework that leads to collaboration.
Parents and Family
We have maternity leave, maternity leave for spouses, and family care leave which employees can use to take care of their children when they are in need. We also give congratulatory money when they have a child.

Employees can bring their children to work when necessary. Note that they don’t have a day care system, they’re just flexible with allowing employees to bring their children to work when circumstances require it.

Colorkrew also has a culture of taking maternity/paternity leave when children are born, as well as flexible remote work and flex time for new parents.