UX Designer / Researcher

Daylight Design San Francisco is looking for a UX Designer / Researcher (exact title dependent on experience). We are looking for individuals who have fluidity with the human-centered design process, strong conceptual and creative thinking skills, and excellent quality of craft execution. Because Daylight is a small studio, we prioritize building our team with people who are experts in one discipline, and also have the desire to explore, dabble, fail, and grow in others.

The role requires someone who has a strong background in human-centered design and a high level of creativity, natural curiosity, and poise. Activities may include: 

• Craft compelling user experiences for consumer (for-profit and nonprofit clients) and business applications
• Create sketches, IAs, flows, wireframes, prototypes, and finished designs
• Design user research plans and lead them through execution and synthesis.
• Plan and facilitate co-design sessions with clients and users.
• Collaborate and work seamlessly with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, strategists and project managers to align on objectives and goals and iteratively develop the best solutions
• Work on a variety of projects - from broad, explorative prompts to pixel perfect designs for shipping
• Create and manage schedules to meet deliverable deadlines
• Create concepts that raise the bar in terms of quality 
• Collaborate internationally with our offices in Munich and Seoul and perhaps even travel to these locations if/when project demands
• Collaborate directly with clients
• Prepare presentations and present work back to clients
  
  

You’ll get to work on projects like:

• Ebenbuild – Increasing survival rates of patients with acute respiratory distress by creating a digital lung “twin”
• Santa Clara County Housing Authority – Reducing the burden for public housing tenants through a digital solution‍
• Melon – ​​Transforming Korea's top music streaming service into a holistic music experience

• Great intuition for what makes experiences delightful and effective, and a high level of experience design craft
• A degree in interaction design, visual design, HCI, or psychology/cognitive science
• 2+ years of professional design experience, with 1+ years in UX design
• Solid experience in design thinking (human-centered design) methodology
• Experience and ability in planning and conducting qualitative user research using a wide range of research methods and tools
• Familiarity with collaborative design and prototyping software (e.g. Figma, Sketch, InVision, etc.)
• Ability to clearly communicate concepts through wireframes, flows, mockups, and prototypes
• Willingness to push beyond the obvious solution to find the best one 
• Ability to communicate with colleagues and clients to solve problems
• The ability to apply their skills broadly and an eagerness to learn from a breadth of design talents, experiences and backgrounds.
• Fluent English skills 
• Ideally experience in shipping products 
• Quantitative research skills and experience are a significant bonus
• Well-developed content design/content strategy skills are a significant bonus

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• Work on a wide range of meaningful design projects
• Guidance and feedback from senior designers and partners.
• Potential for social-impact focused work
• Collaboration with a diverse, global creative team

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We’re looking for someone who lives in (or is willing to relocate to) the San Francisco Bay Area. Team members can work remotely up to 50% of the time.

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Daylight Design is a global design and innovation firm committed to positive social and commercial impact. We combine fluency in the human-centered design process with deep skills in design execution. We are intentionally small, with ~30 individuals across our three studios in San Francisco, Seoul and Munich. Our size allows us to be selective about the work we take on; we only engage in projects that are interesting and net-positive for the world. Daylight is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and we strongly encourage candidates from backgrounds that are underrepresented in design to apply.