Senior Product Designer (UX/UI) - [Talent Pool - Contractor]

This opportunity is focused on building our Talent Pool for future Short-Term Contractor roles. Please note that our follow-up may take some time, and we appreciate your patience and interest.

WANTED - thinkers, builders, and dreamers

For over 15 years, ArcTouch has created lovable apps, websites, and connected experiences for world-class companies, leading brands, and innovative startups. See some of our work.

Since launching our first app in 2009, we’ve followed these core beliefs:

• Create lovable products, the perfect blend of something useful and delightful that forges meaningful connections with users.
• Be a lovable company, where amazing teams of diverse individuals collaborate every day to create something we can be proud of.

ArcTouch is a specialty studio that is part of the award-winning AKQA Group.

If you're passionate about building lovable products, we want you to join us!

Meet the design team

As a Product Designer at ArcTouch, you'll be able to design great user experiences and engaging interfaces for various platforms (iOS and Android apps, web projects, and many others!). Explore every form of interaction from touchscreens to voice command, chatbots, VR and AR. All of this for international digital products that are used by millions of users every day.

Working with us, you’ll get the chance to collaborate with a skilled, fast-paced and innovative team on various projects. You will contribute to different phases of the design process, from discovery to delivery, sharing your knowledge with others and boosting your understanding of various types of business.

We encourage collaboration through creativity, so we value good communication skills and teamwork, from defining requirements with product managers to working close to developers to ensure pixel-perfect execution of design deliverables.

Expectations:

• Lead and/or participate in group ideation and collaborative design sessions, providing design critiques and support to your colleagues.
• Plan research for new projects, and collect and interpret data for design audits.
• Create mockups, concepts, and prototypes for client testing and approval.
• Articulate design rationale effectively to both internal and external audiences.
• Keep up to date with the latest design and technology trends for various platforms.
• Create the right documentation for handoff, ranging from a sketch on a whiteboard to an annotated mockup (or detailed UI specifications and assets) for developers to implement.
• Learn and share knowledge with your peers during our internal team meetings and ceremonies.
• Communicate the design rationales clearly and actively in English, being able to adapt the communication to internal or external stakeholders. Conduct presentations and answer questions from various audiences.
• Use your UX/UI skills to drive, visualize, and execute creative multi-platform experiences from initial concept to delivery, collaborating with engineers on implementation when required.
• Have a strong strategic thinking approach, being capable of envisioning the lifecycle of their projects and connect design decisions with business needs.
• Work cooperatively, and communicate early and often to handle multiple projects with flexibility to change focus quickly.
• Engage actively with hardware and software advancements, getting “out of the box” and suggesting new applications to our business and clients.
• Proactively reach out to share knowledge and contribute with teammates, collaborating to evangelize design within ArcTouch.

REMOTE: This position is remote-friendly within Brazil.

CONTRACTOR: This is a short-term contractor position.