Senior Web Designer Product
Dublin, Ireland
Full Time
About Offr
Offr is revolutionising the global real estate market. The business has secured significant investment and support from major international groups such as Barclays (UK), the National Association of Realtors (USA), The European Investment Fund (EU), AIB and Bank of Ireland.
As a prop-tech start-up, Offr is built with a clear and simple goal in mind; to facilitate faster, more transparent, and more enjoyable property transactions for every stakeholder involved. Offr focuses on rapidly scaling internationally and transforming the end-to-end process of buying and renting a residential and commercial property through seamless digitized transactions, giving agents time to do what they do best – managing and advising.
At its core, Offr is driven by a team of passionate property and technology insiders with long-standing experience in real estate and engineering experts who work together to develop cutting-edge technology and shape the industry’s future.
With a people-centric solid approach to business, Offr is looking to continue expanding its team and bring together world-class talent to continue to collaborate, innovate, and disrupt the market. So now people the world over can buy a property as easily as booking a flight.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced designer who has a proven record of producing quality designs that are visually stunning and also functional to encourage use to a variety of users.
The Day to Day:
- Lead and own the full design process, from understanding business requirements, to prototyping, to outputting high quality designs.
- Be able to convert design mockups into responsive html css equivalents using design tools (ie sass, gulp).
- Have experience with modern design templating languages (ie Bootstrap).
- Perform UI / UX testing and identify areas that need improvement. Look for and implement code based optimisations to increase on page speed and ensure SEO best practices
- Create and maintain visual assets such as icons, colour palettes, branding collateral, using a design language system approach.
- Optimise the application for mobile-first design, ensuring simplicity and speed.
- Build quality assurance into your workflow; verify your work with testing and ensure mobile and cross-browser compatibility.
The Essential Skills and Requirements:
- 5+ years UX, UI and Design experience in a Web development environment with in-depth knowledge of user interface design principals, responsive web design, user centric design processes, accessibility and usability methodologies.
- Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq and the like is a must.
- Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively.
- Proficiency in HTML5 and CSS.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns.
- Advanced experience with search engine functions and optimization (SEO/SEM).
- Be passionate about and up to date on modern design practices and methodologies.
- Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively and professionally.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
The Nice to Haves:
- Video editing skills
- Animation experience
Why work for us?
A rapidly growing start-up
Training & development
Work life balance
Competitive salary
Flexible working options