We’re seeking a designer who wants to make the world a better and more beautiful place. You’ll help conceptualize and create impactful work while serving as a mentor and a leader on our design team.
Why work at Yoko Co?
- Do good better: We exclusively serve clients who make a positive impact on the world. This is your chance to build things that help create a better place for all of us.
- 4-day work week and lots of holidays. Mondays are flex days meaning you’re free to take them off if you’re caught up on your work. Plus we’re closed for nearly a full week at Thanksgiving (November) and two weeks at the end of the year plus a bunch of other days too. Work-life balance FTW!
- High performance no jerks. You’ll collaborate with good people who believe in doing great work.
- Best Place to Work (and that’s not just our opinion). We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Inc. 5000 and Washington Business Journal.
We value team members who are motivated by our mission and driven to make a positive impact. If you have a passion for excellence a growth mindset and a commitment to collaboration we’d love to hear from you.
In this role you’ll:
- Design: Create visually impactful deliverables including wireframes mood boards design layouts and prototypes for a wide variety of clients and projects adapting and building on their brand standards styles and goals.
- Collaborate: You’ll work as a part of a project team collaborating on a daily basis with strategists and UX specialists developers and project managers as well as other designers.
- Mentor: Share insight experience and feedback with other members of the design team to help facilitate professional and personal growth.
- Present: Share your brilliant work with clients hear their feedback and discuss how the designs we create can most effectively contribute to their mission.
- And more: We believe that many of the best designers have a wide variety of skills – if you’ve done UX development leadership unicycle juggling or anything else that might be handy we’re open to discuss how those skills could be incorporated into what you do here.
To succeed in this position you’ll need:
- A proven track record of being the primary or lead designer on large projects in an agency or software development environment.
- A strong sense of intuition understanding and empathy to communicate effectively with clients and team members – hearing not just what they say but also what they mean.
- Experience working with professional design software and workflows (we use Figma) and a mastery of key concepts such as component libraries design systems autolayout and tokenization.
- A keen visual eye and the ability to spot minor inconsistencies from a mile away.
- At minimum an understanding of the core principles of front-end web development UX design and basic animation.
- Comfortability participating in client meetings and presenting your work to internal and external stakeholders.
- A solution-oriented mentality and the perspective context and awareness to address complex problems in a sustainable way.
- Availability to work at least 5 hours overlap with 9-5 pm ET.
- A genuine desire to contribute to the growth of our team and the quality of our work.
What you get:
You’ll get a flexible schedule unlimited time off a competitive salary a profit share bonus (starting in your second year) the ability to work wherever you want a personal development budget and all US federal holidays and multiple weeks off at the end of the year to recharge. We’ll also offset your entire carbon footprint. If you’re in the US we also offer health insurance disability and life insurance and 401(k) matching.
More about us:
We’re a group of people who are passionate about the work we do the clients we serve and improving our craft. We also care about each other — we don’t think of one another as coworkers or employees but as fellow humans. From developers to designers project managers to strategists we bring out the best in each other.
We’ve been in business for over a decade our whole team is remote we’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Inc. 5000 and the Washington Business Journal.
To apply:
If you’re interested send an email and a link to your portfolio to
[email protected] with the subject line “Alignment” — and while you’re at it we’d love to learn a bit more about you and all the neat stuff you’ve done.
We take applicants from all over the world. However you must be willing to work a schedule that overlaps with normal US business hours.
Please note that we will begin responding to applications the week of January 8 2024.