Who We Are 

Moon Creative Lab is a human-centered venture studio that powers the creation of new businesses. Moon’s mission is to help Mitsui & Co, one of Japan’s largest organizations, in its pursuit to become a more future-forward, entrepreneurial company. We work to unlock the creativity of Mitsui’s 45,000 strong global workforce to build innovative businesses that will have an exponential impact on the world. We do this by bringing together the best talent in design, engineering, product and more to create bold new ventures from zero to launch. 

Moon transforms ideas into bold new ventures and provides the resources and expertise to light the way to a more creative future.  We are human-centered in our approach and hands-on in our delivery. Our team of talented designers, engineers, product leaders and marketers help our idea owners connect with real users to create prototypes and MVPs and bring them to market quickly. At Moon, you will:

• Address real human needs that have far-reaching social impact
• Work across disciplines, across industries, and across cultures 
• Start with people and leverage the beauty and messiness of human-centered design

Moon is looking for people who are passionate about unlocking the innate creativity of others while designing impactful businesses. Come join us! 

Who We Are Looking For 

As a UX/UI Design Lead, you will join a global Design Team that engages with our community of Entrepreneurs building new ventures. You thrive in a fast-paced, creative, and multicultural environment. You're driven by your curiosity, and not afraid to ask the hard questions. You strive to understand why, and perhaps most of all, ambiguity is your friend.We are looking for an exceptional UX/UI Lead who wants to be part of bringing human-centered innovation into the world. You will have the opportunity to discover and serve unmet user needs by applying your expertise in building products and services to address real-world problems. In this role you will leverage your entrepreneurial experience and mindset to help Moon create change through the design of scalable, sustainable solutions that are human-centered and new to the world. 

What You’ll Do at Moon

Creating impact through design

You will help entrepreneurs, researchers, and designers see alternative ways to think about a design problem and lead them through hurdles and moments where they are stuck. You accomplish this by being hands-on, creating tools, processes, and systems that produce transparency, alignment, and direction. You will also provide design support and a keen perspective to ventures while informing decisions that affect the design community.

Collaborating closely with Design, Product and Engineering

You will work closely with other discipline leads to ensure an enjoyable user experience across all products, constantly sharing ideas and learnings. 

Growing the Design Craft and Discipline

You will leverage your UX/UI expertise and perspective to inspire others and meaningfully contribute to our global design team spanning Silicon Valley and Tokyo.

Brand Ambassador

You will represent Moon’s brand, mission, and culture both inside and outside of the organization. You will evangelize Moon internally or when working with outside agencies, vendors, or with any community partners. 

The Must-Haves 

• 7+ years of experience in UX/UI design for apps or web, in-house, ideally in startup environments
• 2+ experience with end-to-end product design
• 1+ years of experience guiding other UX/UI designers
• Experience in launching new services such as web services and applications
• Experience leading and coaching teams through the product design and development process, and through at least one product launch to market
• Ability to jump into leading and executing various parts of UX/UI design process
• UX design of the entire product in collaboration with PM or experience working as a product manager
• Experience as a promotional design lead for campaigns and marketing
• Cross-platform design experiences (iOS, Android, Web, etc.)
• Excellent UX/UI design skills, with lo-fi & hi-fi prototyping skills
• Ability to autonomously lead UX/UI–specific workstreams with little support from others
• Experience with a variety of design tools such as Sketch, Figma, InVision, Framer, Principle, Adobe CC suite, HTML/CSS/JS, Processing/P5, Arduino, etc.
• Systems thinking: Able to tackle complex, interconnected challenges and use design to both communicate that complexity and prototype interventions that provide clarity and simplicity
• Passion for design: Able to distinguish between ‘good’ and ‘great’ and are able to not only identify best practices, but push boundaries and explore new territory
• A hands-on “no job is too small” mentality
• Experience defining and implementing art direction in support of product vision
• Ability to translate research insights into actionable design solutions and guiding teams through the synthesis and ideation process
• Ability to be hands-on and proactive in building, prototyping, and evolving digital products
• Experience designing beautiful user interfaces influenced by a point of view on what great design looks like, leveraging tools such as Sketch or Figma
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, using various mediums and formats 
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment
• Speaks English fluently
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Experience in working in multicultural teams

The Nice-to-Haves 

• Ability to travel between the Palo Alto California studio and the Tokyo studio on occasion
• Familiar with Motion, 3D, and/or development
• Business–level fluency in Japanese speaking and comprehension

Sounds Fun, Right?

If you identify with Moon's values and would like to contribute to our work, please submit your resume and a portfolio .pdf or link. 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Moon Creative Lab is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.