Sr. Visual / UI Designer

Company Description

OUR STORY

Equinox Group is a high growth collective of the world's most influential, experiential, and differentiated lifestyle brands. We restlessly seek what is next for maximizing life - and boldly grow the lifestyle brands and experiences that define it. In addition to Equinox, our other brands, Blink, Pure Yoga, SoulCycle, Equinox Hotels and Equinox Media are all recognized for inspiring and motivating members and employees to maximize life. Our portfolio of brands is recognized globally with locations within every major city across the United States in addition to London, Toronto, and Vancouver.

OUR CODE

We are passionate about high performance living and we practice what we preach – investing time in our own health and fitness. We believe that everyone has untapped potential within them and it takes a disruptive approach to unleash it. We dream big and don’t settle for the status quo. We sweat the details. We never accept less than 110% to help each other deliver the Equinox experience and enable our members to get great results. We are obsessed with what’s new, what’s now, what’s next. Never following, always leading, living ahead of the moment in fashion, culture, and consumer behavior. We aren’t just a company; we’re a community vested in each other’s success. We value humility and a team approach at every level of the company.

If you are a high performing individual who is passionate about winning and inspiring others, then we are excited to discuss career opportunities with you.

Job Description

Equinox seeks a Sr. UI / Visual Designer who is an exceptionally skilled visual designer with advanced expertise in crafting high-end, polished digital experiences. This role is specifically for those with advanced visual design abilities who understand UX principles but have a primary focus on creating visually impactful, luxury-level digital products. Only candidates with proven mastery in visual design for sophisticated digital environments (web, app) should apply. 

Candidate Criteria: Please only apply if you have an impeccable eye for typography, layout, and visual hierarchy. We’re seeking a designer with a sharp aesthetic, sensibility, bringing sophisticated, creative, user-centered visual designs to life. 

Be part of a team of designers passionate about creating amazing digital products for Equinox’s members. As a Sr. Visual / UI Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next great product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. You will be expected to utilize your full range of product design, interaction design and visual design skills, and you will have opportunity to design for a wide area of Equinox’s Tech Products.

• Work together with Product Strategy, Research, and Engineers to ideate, inform, validate, QA, and ship designs
• Ability to design cross-platform on App, Website, Wearables, and Connected Hardware 
• Own and easily see a project from ideation to development including concepting, information architecture, wireframes, final visual design, and handoff of detailed dev-ready functional and design annotations 
• Work to elevate Equinox’s digital design language, design system, and custom UI elements 
• Solve complex design challenges across full product lifecycles 
• Present concepts, communicate design thinking and processes frameworks 
• Understand, challenge, and solution product design thinking always staying true to the voice of the consumer 
• Anticipate user needs through creative and passionate thinking with clear vision for both short and long-term business goals 
• Prototype designs to showcase interactivity and for user testing. Use micro animations and apply micro interactions to appropriate Figma components. 
• Evolve existing design system, implement best practices, and communicate system updates across design team 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Experience Design, UI/UX design, or related field 
• 6 years of relevant work experience in UI design, visual design, or product design preferably in tech, fitness, luxury fashion, lifestyle, or service-driven brands 
• Exceptional visual design skills. Someone who is passionate about design. 
• Portfolio highlighting digital product design and interaction design 
• Articulate in communicating design thinking and rationale from a user-centric perspective 
• Adept at using quantitative and qualitative research to transform insights into beautiful UI designs
• Self-motivated and self-managed with a high degree of analytical ability and intellectual curiosity 

Technical

• Mastery of Figma. You could teach it as a class. 
• Lover of Design Systems. Know how to work off a Master Design System and grow the library with appropriate variants. Keep organized components linked to all files. 
• Superior typography skills 
• You notice and care when something is a pixel off 
• Interaction, motion design, and micro animation savvy. Adept at bringing design flows to life with animation.
• Knowledge in After Effects, Illustrator, and Photoshop 
• For fun you read up on best practices and how they evolve with new technology 
• A team player excited by nurturing design team culture 
• Excellent time management. Able to hit deadlines and work in a fast-paced and agile environment. 
• Self-motivated and accountable 

Pay Transparency: Min $135K - Max $155K

Additional Information

AS A MEMBER OF THE EQUINOX TEAM YOU WILL RECEIVE:

• We offer competitive salary, benefits, and industry leading commission opportunities for club employees
• Complimentary Club membership
• Perks and incentives with our products and services including Personal Training, Pilates, Spa and Shop

This job description is intended to describe the general requirements for the position. It is not a complete statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Other duties not listed here may be assigned as necessary to ensure the proper operations of the department.

Equinox is an equal opportunity employer. For more information regarding our career opportunities, please visit one of our clubs or our website at https://careers.equinox.com/

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Must have a legal right to work in the United States.