O8

    START DATE: Ongoing

    LOCATION: Remote

    POSITION: Part-time / ongoing contract. Possibility for full-time if desired.

    CRITICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

    1. At least 5 years in design and/or UX for the web
      1. Design experience/portfolio must have a strong focus on websites (mobile apps, web apps, and branding design are also interesting)
      2. Must be able to handle serious, complex websites, such as higher education, corporate, and high-content / high-traffic sites
    2. Some sort of design or UX portfolio that you can share

    HARD REQUIREMENTS:

    • Must be able to overlap at least 4 working hours in Central Time Zone.

    In this position, you will facilitate the design and/or user experience of client websites. No brochureware here – we only create highly usable websites and digital experiences. Beauty and creativity, while important, come secondary to usability.

    QUALIFICATIONS

    For UX:

    • Solid understanding of content strategy, information architecture, and tools for UX and user research
    • User-centered design approach
    • Design thinking
    • Ability to be client-facing and guide client through design discovery

    For design:

    • User-centered design approach
    • Design thinking
    • Ability to be client-facing and guide client through design discovery

      NICE TO HAVE

      • Basic technical understanding of how CMS websites work
        • To ensure you're designing in ways that make sense for programmers to implement and content admins to populate

      BONUS POINTS (not required, but please mention)

      • UX / user research experience; usability testing
      • Design thinking training / mindset

      ABOUT

      Work with a fast-but-sustainably-growing, high-potential digital marketing and tech consultancy based in Minneapolis with a distributed team in the states and across the globe! We have learning and training opportunities, top-notch talent, great management, and an opportunity to grow personally and professionally while having personal autonomy. Check us out at https://www.o8.agency .

      DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

      • Strong interpersonal and client relationship skills
      • Highly organized, ability to handle multiple clients and projects
      • Proactive, self-starting, learning mindset. You should be a fast and voracious learner without being told to learn, or what to learn -- we provide resources for you to do so. Actively seek out new information and skills in areas where you have knowledge gaps.
      • Humble confidence. If you think you already know it all, this is not the place for you
      • Experience working in a digital agency or similar
      • Smart, creative, and detail-oriented
      • Quality-driven
      • Team-player and mindset of constant improvement
      • Bring some level of passion and excitement to what you do, and try to bring that to our team and clients
      • Adopt our culture of constant improvement. You are really working with some of the best, here, but we can always be better.

      BENEFITS
      (If hired full-time. We also offer certain benefits to part-timers who work at least 25 hours per week.)

      • Paid time off: 15 days PTO starting plus 12 days for national holidays. Flexible if you need a bit more. Generally we're about "hit your goals / get the work done."
      • Company-sponsored healthcare: 50% split. Plan is through Aetna.
      • 401k: 4% employer match currently on hold due to COVID.
      • Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
      • Training: We offer ongoing training and all-access membership through the CXL Institute, which is the best in class platform of its kind.
      • Flexible work environment, work-life harmony, digital nomadism:

      > We encourage traveling and exploring the globe, which is part of our company culture and international, diverse team.

      > Many of us take “workations”, either together or individually.

      SUCCESS METRICS

      Client happiness scores.

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