Senior UX/UI Designer

Salary Range

6,000,000 - 9,000,000 JPY 

Salary depends on work experience, skills, and abilities

Benefits

• Commutation expenses covered
• Two full remote days a week (Wednesdays and Fridays)
• Horizontal communication;
• Health insurance, employment insurance, workers' accident insurance, pension
• Flexible Working Hours (with core hours from 10:00 to 15:00)
• Work in a Japanese company that is also international and multicultural;
• Ability to choose the tools you want to work with (Photoshop, Figma, Sketch, Affinity, or any other)
• Grown within the company, you will be the number one designer within HeartCore, this will allow you to evolve when the design team grows.
• Lead the design and user experience of a new global platform.
• Work directly on shaping the product vision, strategy, and prioritization.
• Support for attending training courses required for work (all expenses covered by the company at the discretion of the department head)

Responsibilities

• Work across the full product design life cycle from discovery to delivery
• Will be your responsibility to drive HeartCore design language to modern and intuitive UX solutions to make our customers feel empowered.
• Design UI Web Platform applications (Websites, SaaS, Apps)
• UX Flow Development (Improve or create a modern user experience of existing and new products)
• Work with product and engineering on the wireframes and storyboards to define the actual flow of our products and how the interaction happens
• Prototype new digital products: Define the user experience, interactions, and user interface through user flows, information architecture, wireframes, and visual design. Build functional prototypes to validate and test your designs.
• Interaction design: Design simple, streamlined, data-driven, user-centric experiences that delight users.
• Occasionally help out with other design tasks, such as simple graphic designs (marketing, promotional materials, etc.) and documents (e.g., manuals)
• You work very closely with product managers and engineering, often interacting with our internal sales teams and closely with our board members.

Requirements

• English Business level speaker
• Japanese is not required (So apply even if you don't speak Japanese)
• Proven work experience as a UI/UX Designer or similar role and a portfolio of designs
• Familiarity with common UI/UX patterns on modern web dashboards
• Experience or willingness to do UX writing in English
• Attention to detail and drive to make it look "just right" and pixel-perfect where it matters
• Experience working independently and proactively in a dynamic environment
• Identify and troubleshoot UX problems based on user feedback
• Define the ideal UX from target understanding and problem definition
• Process: Strong understanding of UX and UI design, processes, patterns, and best practices
• Experience in launching UX strategies such as defining value propositions, user story mapping, customer journey mapping, and so on.
• Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams
• Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
• Design user flows and page navigations
• Creation of mockups and prototypes
• User research
• Knowledge of wireframe tools
• Design, create, and produce marketing materials, including print, digital, and social media content
• Strong creativity

Personal Traits

• People & communication skills
• Creativity in their ability to find solutions and make clarity towards vagueness
• Team player with strong communication skills and capable of building good relationships with people
• Action-oriented with reasonable thoughts and common sense
• Open to other cultures
• Humble to acknowledge that there is always new knowledge to be acquired and eager to learn it
• Positive attitude and the ability to take feedback and use it constructively
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
• Good problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to manage time and prioritize tasks

Preferred

• Experience working with global products
• Japanese conversation ability
• Ability to Design visual aspects of trade show booths
• Ability to Design layout and visuals of promotional materials
• Obsession with simplicity and intuitive interactions
• Thorough knowledge of the latest trends in UX/UI

What we value

We aim to bring digital products with the quality of Japan to the global market.

A culture of optimism, empathy, happiness and results. 🙂 

Focussing transparency, ownership, improving consistently and communication.

Office Location

Shirakiji Bldg. 3F, 1-2-33, Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-0022 Japan 🇯🇵

Typical Workday

Working hours are 9:00-18:00, with a 1-hour lunch break. (This is a reference since Flex Time exist)

Holidays

• Saturdays, Sundays, company holidays and national holidays
• Ten paid holidays per year, available after the first 6 months (can be rolled over to the following year for a maximum of 20 total days). Every year at the company gives an extra day of paid holiday per year until a maximum of 20.
• Five extra paid holidays per year available as soon as you joint the company.
• Extra Annual holidays: New Year’s period (ex. Dec 30-Jan 3), marriage leave, condolence leave, natural disaster leave, maternity leave, sabbatical (after 3 consecutive years with the company).

Over Time Work

Company Average of 2 to 3 hours per month. (maximum allowed is 45 hrs/month)

Department/Team you will be joining

Product Strategy Department But you will interact with every single department within the company.

Career Trajectory

Successful candidates are self-motivated but communicative with teammates, organized, and eager to both apply their skills and develop new ones. This is an excellent opportunity for creative-minded individual to develop their skills and engage audiences with content that will inspire positive change in society.

Screening Process

0 - Application screening 

1 - First interview (HR head, Department head) 

2 - Second interview (HR head, Department head) 

3 - Offer (HR head/department head)