UX Designer

About Purple Carrot

Purple Carrot started with just a seed of an idea in 2014. Our vision is a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Every day, on this mission, we're breaking boundaries with plant-based eating. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being bold. We need your expertise on our team to make things happen!

Purple Carrot's irresistible, globally-inspired meal-kit recipes and prepared meals using fresh ingredients are available in the U.S. and Japan. We are a team of collaborative individuals who drive for results, strive for doing better, make good choices quickly, and embrace a growth mindset to win or learn. Here's what you're up for!

Description

We are looking for a UX designer (4-6 years of experience) to join our mission driven team. As an integral part of the Product team you will join forces with the Director, Product Design (to whom you will also report) in our continued effort to inspire people to eat more plants!

We are looking for candidates who understand business requirements and technical limitations. As a UX designer, you'll be on a design team working to create a highly usable and desirable product for our customers. You'll iterate on designs based on business objectives, customer feedback, or usability findings. You will be responsible for user testing and use all your design skills (interaction, visual, storytelling, etc.) to ensure a great user experience!

Location

• Purple Carrot HQ is in Needham, MA and prefers local candidates to work in a hybrid model.

On the Plate

• Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Experience integrating data into your design decisions
• Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
• 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.
• Develop prototypes to help communicate and define design interactions and user flows.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
• Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
• Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge of the industry's latest trends and technologies.

Main Ingredients for the Role

• Experience designing iOS and web applications using Figma design system
• Ability to quickly create wireframes and rough designs to internally validate ideas
• Successfully Design within an Agile or Scaled Agile process
• Develop and test wireframes to validate new ideas
• Conduct surveys and other UX research efforts to understand the needs of our customers better
• Document and communicate the user experience
• Experience collaborating with engineers and product managers
• A great team player who is always willing to provide and receive constructive feedback!
• Ability to work in ambiguous environments and drive outcomes

Extra Special Sauce

• Please have a Portfolio or example of work shared with the resume application.

Garnish

We love our staff, and show it with benefits (including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance), matching retirement plan, unlimited paid time off, Purple Carrot box allowance, professional development, and the opportunity to work in collaboration with teammates who are passionate about food!

Final Touches

Purple Carrot's top priority is protecting the health and wellbeing of our team and candidates. The majority of our interviews and assessments occur virtually. If there is a need to interview onsite, we follow COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, WHO, and any state guidelines .

We are committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap, veteran status, or marital status.