The Role:

We are looking for a strong UI Designer to help Personal Capital’s web and mobile apps captivate our next million users. Our small team means you will have a large influence on the apps that help millions with their finances. We are looking for a UI Designer (or UX/Interaction Designer with strong visual skills) to grow our Product team in San Carlos.

What You’ll Do:

• Primary responsibility is to own and maintain style-guides for web, iOS, and Android (icons, colors, spacing, fonts for buttons, drop-downs, modal views, tables, etc.) to be used by UX, development, and QA teams.
• Design and export assets (screenshots, icons, banners) for submitting our apps to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
• Collaborate with the Product Managers, Brand Designers, and User Experience Designers to ideate, design, prototype, and iterate to solve customer needs with delightful designs.
• Design mockups to communicate UI behaviors and animations, including the production of screen layouts, user interface elements, and icons.
• Produce storyboards, design specifications, and assets for development on web and mobile platforms.
• Work with development and quality control teams to ensure that designs perform in real life as intended in mockups.

What We’d Like to See:

• Demonstrable knowledge of designing for a system usable by others, not just one-off layouts and components
• Knowledge of best practices for exporting pixel-perfect assets for different platforms (Android, iOS, web)
• Effective verbal and visual communication skills to describe research, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and design rationale.
• 1-3 years of user interface design experience with consumer applications, preferably rich web apps/sites and mobile apps.
• BA/BS degree in interaction design, web design, or related field.
• Ability to use a variety of methods and tools to convey ideas and concepts (e.g. storyboards, wireframes, prototypes, etc.).
• A superb understanding of graphics, typography, animation and web best practices and guidelines.
• Motion or animation graphics experience is a plus.