UI/UX Designer

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Description
About us.
We're Tovala, a food-tech company completely reinventing home cooking to save consumers time. Through an innovative combination of hardware, software, and food, we give our customers a way to enjoy really good, good-for-you meals without sacrificing time to do whatever matters to them. We've amassed a loyal, rapidly growing following in just three years, radically changing the day-to-day lives of people across the country and successfully creating a new model for the food industry. We're looking for great people to join our team of hard-working, food-loving nerds.
About the job.
We're looking for a UI/UX Designer to join our Digital Product Team on a full-time basis. In this role, you'll research, design, prototype, test, and develop new products and features for all of our digital platforms. You will report to our UX Design Lead.
What does it mean to be a UI/UX designer at Tovala?
You're in good creative company. Our team is small, so your contributions are big. In other words, you'd create usable, enjoyable, and aesthetically pleasing digital user interfaces. Your strong foundation of design principles, such as typography, imagery, content, and composition would ground your decision making. Your work would also serve to elevate and align with our brand vision, aesthetic style, and defined design principles. You understand the bottom line-you don't just make stuff that 'looks good', you'll figure out how to make solutions that solve customer and business problems.
How you'll spend your time at Tovala

  • Obsessing over customer problems: testing prototypes to validate our hypotheses
  • Working in an agile environment, amongst ux focused front and back end developers.
  • Designing user-centric, simple, and engaging interfaces with the latest UX and UI design practices for Android, iOS and mobile.
  • Managing customer and internal feedback, understanding your impact on solving customer problems.
  • Collaborating with other designers to develop and improve our Design System
  • Building a working knowledge of capabilities and limitations of front-end technologies that will help you create better user experiences.
  • Own the details that make the entire digital product experience feel polished: including interactions, gestures, animation, and visuals that go beyond the min.
  • Contribute to product requirements by researching competitors, looking at existing internal data, and information as needed.

Requirements
About you

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Digital Design, Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related fields.
  • 3+ years of experience as a user interface designer, or similar roles.
  • Experience with designing user-centric, simple, and engaging interfaces with the latest UX and UI design practices.
  • Proficiency with ux/ui related software and tools like Figma
  • Possessing visual design expertise: Strong understanding of typography, color and layout principles
  • Ability to understand your impact on solving customer problems and product's needs.
  • Ability to extract complex concepts and quickly turn around rigorous flows, mockups and interactive prototypes reflecting a range of options
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, work autonomously and multi-task in an agile environment
  • You love food, whether that means cooking it, eating it, frequently pressing your nose against deli windows, or lusting after soft-serve on Instagram. All fair game.
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Location

We have a large, open-plan office in the West Loop but we're a flexible, hybrid workplace so you can determine with your manager and team how often to come in.

An Insider's view of Tovala

How would you describe the company’s work-life balance?

At Tovala, one of our core values is leading full lives. We work hard, but also strive to create an organization that is “about time” and encourages people to prioritize their health, family, and life.

Taryn

CFO

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

The Data Team at Tovala abides by these principles: 1. Be a person, not your job - Respect, kindness, and levity increase the success rate of collaborative projects. 2. Best answer wins - We care about the quality – not the source – of ideas. 3. Over-Communicate - We meticulously communicate progress, blockers, and changes – though we don't nag!

Mohammad Naveed

Director of Data

How does the company support your career growth?

I have grown with Tovala from packaging meals at one of our facilities to now analyzing data on the Ops team to ensure that our customers receive their meals on time! Over the past 3.5 years I have been promoted four times. I have had the opportunity to take on increasing responsibility, understand the business, and grow immensely!

Victoria

Operations Analyst

What's something quirky about your company?

I know it sounds like a cliche when people say that their company is like a family, but truly Tovala is like my family. There’s so much care and respect among team members that motivates me and everyone always jumps right in to help. I’ve also had the privilege as an early member to see this team grow quickly and maintain the same caring culture.

Cen

Senior Director of Business Ops

What are Tovala Perks + Benefits

Tovala Benefits Overview

At Tovala, we provide a rewarding career, competitive pay, benefits and exciting perks. Our product is all about saving people time, so we promote wellness, flexibility and taking time off to do things that are most important to you. We also provide equity to all employees so we can all think like owners.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Customized development tracks

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