Senior UI Designer

This is a remote position.

Perry Street Software is hiring a Senior UI Designer for the Scruff and Jack’d app team. You’ll help shape new user experiences while crafting visually striking interface designs for our global community of Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer members.

Day-to-day, you’ll partner with product managers and engineers to solve user problems with design, test concepts, contribute to and advance our design systems and new features, and deliver polished, engineering-ready UI.

Requirements

Key Skill Areas We expect candidates to excel in each of these areas:
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Design — craft clear, strategic, and visually exceptional interfaces and in-app creative that elevate the brand.

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Research — plan lightweight user tests, gather insights, and apply findings to ongoing projects.

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Align Across Teams — host design reviews and workshops to align stakeholders and generate ideas. You know how to run a good meeting!

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Humility — continually improve and be open to honest critical design feedback, both internally and externally.

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Negotiate — collaborate with engineers to balance design quality with technical feasibility.

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Independence – PSS is a remote, global, distributed company. Teammates that excel here are naturally independent and able to work collaboratively over Google Meet but also deliver consistently without a high degree of oversight

Qualities & Experience
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5+ years in product design, UI/UX, or visual design , including 2–3 years in consumer-facing native mobile apps.

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Demonstrable portfolio of work that highlights past projects where you collaborated with Product Management to: design user flows, test concepts, refine UI/UX, and deliver a polished design work product for software or mobile apps. (If we can install an app you built or helped design, please highlight that in your cover letter)

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Proficient in Figma , including component libraries and motion prototypes.

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Demonstrated ability to define a visual style and guide other designers or contractors in executing it consistently.

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Experience contributing to or evolving a design system across multiple products.

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Strong understanding of composition, typography, and storytelling for in-app surfaces and campaigns.

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Organized, self-directed, and skilled at driving clarity across product, marketing, and engineering.

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Experience with agile teams and iterative delivery.

Bonus Experience Areas
- Familiarity with After Effects, Lottie, Rive, or motion design tools for lightweight motion assets.

- Enthusiasm for or experience in one or more of the communities that your designs will be serving

Benefits

A 100% remote, 100% global team Every day, the PSS product team comes together virtually from more than 18 cities in more than 12 countries. Benefits include:
- 11 Paid Holidays

- One paid week off at mid-year (PSS Summer Refresh Week)

- Home Office Stipend - purchase furniture for your home setup

- Paid Parental Leave

United States-based employees additionally receive the following benefits:
- 401k plan with 6% match

- Comprehensive, nation-wide healthcare coverage

- Flexible Time Off

Perry Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, medical condition, disability, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, citizenship, age, military or veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Originally posted on Himalayas