UX Designer
Founded by a group of industry visionaries and startup disruptors, DAIS is reimagining insurance by empowering agencies and carriers with a cutting edge software platform designed to handle the complex challenges of the industry.
DAIS is currently in stealth mode, but we’re looking for people who are curious, driven, and hungry for a challenge. DAIS will give you the room to take complete ownership of your work within an exciting startup culture that is designed to foster personal development. This is a place where you can collaborate freely and level up your skills.
UX Designer
Mission:
Design an impactful, beautiful, and delightful user experience that works well in our users' daily workflow. Be a voice alongside DAIS leadership and end users to brainstorm and iterate on designs to come up with the best possible solution.
A few cool things about this role:
DAIS is working with industry visionaries to rethink how insurance works. You get to work with the DAIS team and start from the drawing board to create new user experiences.
You’ll have direct access to end users who care passionately about helping DAIS be successful.
Your work will be highly visible to industry leaders from across the world.
You’ll be learning about behavioral science and viral adoption from some of the people who invented the fields
Responsibilities:
We are innovative. Our products are built using the best form factor for the user based on who they are and what they’re trying to do. This includes not just Web/tablet/mobile, but potentially conversational interfaces, email, paper, physical interactions, etc.
Areas where user persona or task/contextual information is missing, or any other blockers, are escalated to the user research team and product management.
We have an inspiration board with the most innovative designs from around the world that we can look at to borrow inspirations from.
Every design we do is linked to a user persona and user path.
Designs are presented in a way that describes the user and what they’re trying to do.
Designs are clearly documented in a way that provides development teams with an understanding of what each visual element does and how it relates to the user’s purpose.
Our experiences are intuitive and can be used without training
This person will conduct user testing and user interviews, gather the output, and synthesise into easy to digest assets.
DAIS UI elements will be reworked to fit with the larger brand identity
Icons
Backgrounds
Structure
Sounds
Data presentation
UX assets are documented, organized and easily navigated.
UX will have a 2 sprint lead on development
Our experiences encourage adoption, growing usage over time, and viral spread across and between organizations
Requirements:
Strong UX portfolio showing good aesthetic appreciation, interest in new types of interaction designs, and user-centric thinking
Proficient in Sketch and indesign. Experience with Zeplin and Abstract prefered.
A personality that is inquisitive, open-minded, confident, and comfortable escalating issues and blockers to get them resolved as quickly as possible
Comfortable presenting early designs in front of stakeholders and users to gather feedback and constructive criticism so that the design can be improved quickly
Ok with starting a design for others to react to, and comfortable with receiving feedback to make the design better
Experience creating and presenting clickable prototypes.
Excellent communication skills and a pleasant personality
At least 2 - 5 years experience UX and UI design for digital products & services