Designer / Ux at Hivisasa

Ready to change the way content is generated and shared in Kenya? Join one of the fastest growing sites in Kenya. With over 3.8 million monthly readers, your work is certain to be seen! Hivisasa is looking for a UX minded designer to help co-create a product our readers and writers will enjoy and that we will love developing!

Start: Immediately Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Compensation: Competitive Duration: Open ended, full time

Current Stack: Express Node.js, Java 8, Elasticsearch, SQL, Spring framework (Spring-boot, Spring data, Spring security, Spring XD), Redis, Angular

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience in design and UX
• Fluent in English with excellent written and verbal communication skills

You are:

• A kick ass designer with a wholistic approach that includes UX and responsive designs
• Design in the browser? Mad bonus points.
• Ready to tackle challenges end to end and learn new skills
• Passionate about establishing good design processes and care about the implementation
• You enter conversations with strong opinions, weakly held

You will:

You will define who Hivisasa is in both appearance and voice. On top, you’ll ensure that interacting with our platform leaves readers and writers inspired. You’ll develop looks like/ works like mockups, and wireframes. You’ll test designs with quickly built mockups and you’ll validate your work through routine A/B testing of alternatives. You’ll work with developers to ensure your concepts are perfectly actualized. Your job ends only when our users get to enjoy what once only you imagined.

Nice to have experience:

• Heroku, ElasticSearch, Continuous Integration, Angular, Linux, Redis, Opera Mini, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Kibana, Facebook Ads, Facebook APIs
• Ad networks (Google Ads, Monetize More, Taboola)
• News media or blog sites and related challenges such as time sensitive SEO
• Experience working on sites with millions of pageviews per day, load testing, scaling