Job Details
UX/UI Designer
Austin, TX
Overview
Maev is a wellness brand reimagining daily nutrition for dogs. Our first product reinvents dog food -- what it looks like, how it s made, and who it s designed for. We re a team of entrepreneurs, consumer culture fanatics, and food enthusiasts who are obsessed with design and radical innovation in this old industry. We re a fast growing team, passionate about building a meaningful brand, changing the way we nourish our beloved pets, and supporting others on our close-knit team of good people. But, there's a lot more work to be done, and we're excited to be growing a team of motivated humans that are up for the challenge.
With over 90 million dogs in the US, strong industry CAGR, an increased focus on nutrition, and traditional kibble losing market share due to lack of brand loyalty and poor quality, Maev is incredibly well-positioned to combine these strong industry tailwinds with a brand anchored in quality, transparency and emotional connection.
Maev has a deeply experienced leadership team with world-class talent to support this growth.
Role
As a UX/UI Designer, you ll contribute to solving one of the most important issues e-commerce companies face: how to provide consumers accustomed to shopping in stores a tangible experience while shopping online.
As a design and brand driven company, design has a clear seat at the table and shares the responsibility for product planning, execution, and success. You ll report directly to our Sr Software Engineer, and will work closely with our Founder & CEO as a key team member driving our team to ship new features, bug fixes, and UX/UI updates on a weekly basis.
As our UX/UI Designer, you will be responsible for creating concepts and delivering features that excite and delight our users to drive customer acquisition, conversion, and retention. You will help take our site to the next level as we strive to achieve a memorable, branded, and educational experience and pioneer an online pet store that will take Maev to new heights. Additionally, you will help develop and manage the organization s strategy for design systems, QA, and design team building.
The ideal candidate is someone who is an excellent cross-functional communicator, has strong UX and UI design experience in ecommerce as well as both web and mobile, is capable of handling multiple projects at once, and comfortable asking questions.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of the brand style guide and the UX/UI Style Guide
- Own and maintain our component library as actively used by eng
- Develop a point of view on the future of UX/UI styling at Maev as an innovative ecommerce brand
- Proactively identify gaps in the user experience, usability problems, bugs, and opportunities for KPI improvement, leveraging data, and make recommendations against our roadmap.
- Translate product concepts, nutrition science, and data into useful and usable solutions for the modern dog owner
- Become proficient in our environment and learn how our systems work together to support our public website and ecommerce tooling.
- Work closely with our engineering team and CEO to create useful and polished user experiences.
- Execute continuous improvements to our design system.
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in UX/UI Design
- Experience in Ecommerce, subscription is a plus
- Experience in design systems and with maintainable, modular components
- Understanding of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines best practices
- Experience in making data-driven design decisions, data analysis including GA4, hot jar, etc.
- Proven experience in planning, scheduling, and delivering digital products into market and iterating improvements
- Strong work ethic, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to continuous improvement
- Always up to date on the latest trends and headlines in consumer, branding, ecommerce, UX/UI, and design
- Must love dogs
Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction Design, or other relevant field
- Mastery of Figma and other design tools such as Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
Please include a link to your portfolio website on your resume. Applications without a linked portfolio will not be considered.