UX/UI Designer

Europe-based applicants only.

About Reedsy

We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.

We’ve grown to a community of 1,000,000 authors and over 3,000 freelancers in just a few short years, while picking up a number of industry awards along the way 🏆

Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!

Responsibilities

As a UX/UI Designer, you will be working closely with our founders, Lead Designer and engineering team to craft beautiful interfaces and develop an outstanding user experience.

Working across multiple products, you will:

• Design new user journeys, features and products;
• Contribute to maintaining and evolving existing applications;
• Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for Reedsy’s design system and component library;
• Develop (at least some of) the front-end for your designs and collaborate closely with our engineering team to ensure perfect implementation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as UX/UI designer and ability to implement (some of) your own designs;
• Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma;
• Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles;
• A portfolio of design work;
• Good, critical eye for detail;
• Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills
• Experience working remotely.

Bonus points

• Experience working with fast-growing Series A – B startups
• Experience with Ruby on Rails
• Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds.
• A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor

Benefits

• Work from home;
• Paid paternal and maternal leave;
• Reedski, our annual ski trip.

Salary range:

€50k – €70k

A friendly place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books

We're a community of 1,000,000 authors and freelance publishing professionals. We help authors find top editors, designers and marketers: reedsy.com

And we're fully remote! ⛰ Read about our co-founder Matt spending 3 months living and working from the Alps: businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-heres-how-2018-5. And a bit more about how we started here: starterstory.com/book-publishing-services-marketplace.