Visual Product Designer

About the Company:

Based in Virginia Beach, Leesa is an innovative, fast-growing e-commerce mattress brand named one of the Top 20 Startups to Watch in 2015 by Forbes. Leesa is challenging the traditional players in the mattress industry with their premium mattress designs that are ordered online and ships compressed in a box to your door. As a proud certified B-Corporation, Leesa measures its success as much by its bottom line as by its impact on the world.

Overview:

We’re growing rapidly and looking for a Visual Product Designer who understands the intricacies of brand, visual design and UX to help us build intuitive and delightful customer-centered products with a focus on mobile experiences. You take pride in understanding your customers and vigorously find solutions to make their e-commerce experience efficient and easy peasy. You must be comfortable doing the dual role of UX and Visual Designer. You thrive in entrepreneurial environments, working at a fast clip and prefer to work at a company that has a social conscience. Reporting to the Head of Design, you will be at the intersection of brand, marketing, and UX.

Job Responsibilities:

• Put yourself in the shoes of the Leesa customers first and foremost
• Create well executed designs utilizing a style guide that allows for consistent brand experiences across all platforms and devices

• Help to define the user model and user interface design through information architecture, wireframes and user flows and validate it through usability testing
• Conceptualize usable, valuable, consistent and intuitive user experiences across platforms and devices with a focus on the visual design
• Develop storyboards, mockups, and prototypes using both low fidelity techniques like pen and paper as well as, high fidelity tools like Invision, Principle, Flinto, Adobe After Effects, etc.
• Effectively communicate interaction and design ideas not only in front of our team but also to various project stakeholders and senior leadership
• Gauge the usability of new and existing products and making constructive suggestions for change
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that design specifications are implemented

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree

• 3 years’ experience as a UX/Graphic designer with an emphasis on responsive design and mobile experiences (e-commerce experience is a plus)
• Experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers and cross-functional teams
• Strong visual and graphic design skills for e-commerce and mobile applications
• An expert in creating quality deliverables using tools like Sketch, Invision, Adobe Creative Suite, and more
• Knowledge and capabilities of front-end web technologies such as HTML, Java Script and CSS
• Proficient in a variety of methods to convey ideas and concepts such as storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes
• Experience working in-house for an e-commerce business embedded within product/design teams
• Portfolio of UX-focused work samples for e-commerce and mobile experiences

Other Benefits:

• Exciting and dynamic work environment fostering a people first mindset focused on giving back
• Open & casual office environment – promoting wellness and engagement among team members
• Competitive benefits package: health, dental, 401k, paid leave, on site gym, game room and product offerings for employees
• Located at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, just steps from the beach with many surrounding amenities!