Product Designer (ui/ux) | remotePortcast

Portcast, a Singapore-based AI-powered logistics startup, has been focused on building the next-gen logistics operating system to predict how cargo moves across the world and enable data-driven decisions since 2017. We continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. Backed by some of the major investors in the tech industry, we believe that the logistics industry is at the inflection point of large scale digitization.
Portcast is a team of young tech and industry talent building a game-changing product for the logistics and shipping industry. Our mission is to transform international supply chains to be more resilient by helping logistics companies realize the full potential of their data.
About the role
We're looking for a passionate UI/UX Designer to help build-out our next generation Intelligent Container Visibility solution for ocean cargo. This role is one of our key product hires to join an interdisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists and industry experts. You will be leading all stages of the product design process; from initial concept, to design and prototyping, and iterating again to ensure that everything we build is of the highest quality.
What you will do:
Concept validation
Work cross-functionally with product and engineering partners to represent our design values, solicit feedback, facilitate design discussions, and ensure product quality.
Frequently talk with customers to deeply understand their mental models, needs, workflows and business operations
Conduct & facilitate requirements, design, and implementation reviews and critiques of other people's work to create achievable, measurable and impactful goals targets.
Work with other project stakeholders to deliver the information architecture, user journey map and wireframe flow for new production projects.
Research and analyse industry UX/UI trends and competitor sites and strategies.
Apply data, research, and customer insights to define problems, identify opportunities, and deliver improvements to existing products or introduce new ones
Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features;
Iterate quickly through mockups and clickable prototypes that may range in fidelity and functionality
End-to-end role:
Design sketches, wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for your features.
Work within defined timelines to prioritize your work for maximum impact
Collaborate with Engineering to ensure high-quality handoffs, implementation, and final user experience that exceeds expectations and delights users.
Regular review of usage data to analyze user behaviour and pain points.
Prototype:
Develop clickable prototypes/concept designs to support stakeholder engagement and illustrate early design thinking and usability testing;
Translate concepts into user flows, wire frames, mock ups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences;
Design and deliver wire-frames, user stories, user journey maps, and mock ups to optimize user experience; Feasibility of design analysis
Communicate Product Road Map:
Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products;
Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs;
Post Mortem - Usability Analysis:
Turn data from market, industry trends, competitive analysis, and user experience research into user insights.
Develop a thesis around usability after every design sprint and measure actual results.
Requirements
Your skills & experience:
At least 2-5 years of end-to-end product development experience from ideation, strategy and implementation with a strong creative aesthetic sense in designing best-in-class digital products.
Customer-focused and are able to conduct thorough research, interviews and testing.
Good eye for visual design and hands on experience in user interface design.
Experience with Figma, Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, Abstract, Zeplin, Jira, and Proto.io or other design tools of similar nature.
Ability to prototype and demonstrate design concepts to extended stakeholders using Invision, Principle or Framer tools.
Experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions with a deep understanding of data-first and responsive design.
A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, usability and accessibility concerns.
Have a strong hold on UAT testing using Visual tools (Browserstack or similar] to give feedback to the development team.
Experience in service design and conducting user research through various methods with an ability to translate research finding into tangible product feature requirements or improvements.
Online portfolio with a range of interactive samples.
Benefits
Interdisciplinary team -the design team follows a simple philosophy: our design must be well thought through, our products must be useful and delight our customers all while enhancing their lives. Our user experience practitioners come from different parts of the world and have different backgrounds, such as engineering, content strategy, finance and logistics. We believe diversity enables innovation.
Tech-first team - you'll work with like-minded individuals who share a passion for solving difficult problems using technology.
Accelerated growth - compress learning curve in a couple of years by owning the web app from day one as your own baby. We are building our company to be the next B2B market leader in predictive global supply chains and you'll be a major part of our story.
Rewarding work - with a lean structure you'll make an immediate positive impact on the business and see the results of your work.
Remote work - we fully embraced the remote first culture. Our team works remotely from Singapore, India, China and the US.
Join us now and help us make a dent in the supply chain industry!
Portcast

Manila City, Metro Manila
Permanent
Full-time