At Files.com, we build technology so businesses can manage file transfer and security at scale. We are private equity backed, profitable, and lead our industry in terms of revenue per employee. This means that each and every team member is able to have a high degree of direct responsibility and impact.
We are a SaaS, Cloud-Based Managed File Transfer platform that enables organizations to securely transfer, share, and store files between users, teams, and organizations.
Location: Work From Your Home on a Remote-First Team
World Class Pay and Benefits
Earn a "Bay Area" Salary from Anywhere. Our pay is competitive with the top software companies in the world, with generous base salary plus equity compensation.
Big Company Benefits: You'll get full 🏥 Health/Dental/Vision Insurance coverage (plus 75% of Spouse/Family coverage too), 💰 401(k) with generous matching, 11 Company Holidays per year, and 🏖 20 PTO/Vacation days, plus we give employees off for Winter Break at the end of the year!
Company Macbook Pro and $1,000: We'll send you a company issued contemporary Macbook Pro as well as $1,000 sign-on bonus as a welcome to Files.com.
Tight-Knit Fun-Loving Team: You will be joining a fun-loving team that works together very closely, despite the remote work environment.
100% Remote Opportunity
About the Role
Our apps and marketing websites are driven by a modern frontend React and Gatsby-based stack. In this position, you will build new designs and improve existing flows, working directly in React, Figma, and other design tools. Your work at Files.com would be used by hundreds of thousands of corporate users.
UI/UX Designer and Developer Responsibilities:
· Skilled at creating interaction design solutions
· Understand primary personas of the product and map to their use of the product
· Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers and engineers specific to platform UX
· Design user journeys across functions from concept to production ready with design tools (Figma)
· Create prototypes and wireframes
· Design graphic user interface elements which will be uniformly used across the product: e.g: menus, tabs, tables, and widgets
· Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
· Conduct concept and usability testing and gather feedback
· Resolve design-related issues in the app and marketing site by writing JSX and advanced CSS directly in a branch
· Experience using react.js to develop web applications
· Document component-level UI in our Storybook.js
Qualifications:
· 5+ years of design and development experience for a software solution
· Strong experience in design tools like Figma or Adobe XD, Adobe Suite, Sketch
· Proficient in Web development including HTML, JS, CSS, React.js
· Skilled at creating interaction design solutions
· Strong visual design skills, able to create compelling, branded, high-fidelity product screens
· Familiar working with design systems that consistently scale across platforms
· Experience in designing systems and tools to enable cross team interactions and collaboration
· Hands-on experience designing SaaS and B2B applications
· Creative problem solving and analytical skills with ability to synthesize ideas into tangible solutions for design
· Strong portfolio of design projects
Show us a great resume! We are eager to see the design decisions you make when representing yourself!
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