We're looking for an energetic, meticulous, process-oriented UI Designer who exemplifies excellence balanced with modesty. The UX team has been a key player in Vertafore's software development lifecycle for several years, and now the company is empowering the team to have greater influence. As UI Designer, you will bring your inquisitive mind, impeccable taste, keen eye, conscientious charisma, and inclusive mindset to the needs of a rapidly growing Product Development and User Experience organization. You will lead coordinated efforts to standardize and modernize the design system that will help bring Vertafore's user experience to the next level.

At Vertafore, we value diverse perspectives, continual learning, and continuous improvement. Each day we bring an open mind, a willingness to give and receive feedback, and a dedication to creating quality user experiences. 

Our Product Development teams solve problems with a strong customer focus and collaborate in an open, inquisitive, and positive manner. As creative technologists, we see the beauty of humanity in each other and therefore show respect for ourselves and those around us. This allows us to show up for our team and take risks, knowing it's okay to fail. 

We regularly engage in coaching, mentoring, agile ceremonies (like stand-ups and retrospectives), and fun team activities. We define problems based on user needs, not based on technological capabilities. We endeavor to do things in new ways that add value to our world. 

All of this creates a Product Development environment that is fun, collaborative, and innovative reflected in our quality delivery, happy customers, and diverse, highly empowered team with career mobility. 

Come join us and be part of the action! 

Core Requirements and Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following: 

• The UI Designer will support the Lead UI Designer and UX Manager in establishing the touchstone for a consistent, modern, and accessible look and feel across Vertafore products. This person will support efforts to define and attain the following strategic guideposts for Vertafore's UX and UI: Simplify, Standardize, Unify, Include. 
• Collaborate with multiple team members to create smart designs for complex projects 
• Build amicable, trusting relationships with partner teams 
• Support and contribute to the actualization of those guideposts through an iterative, cross-functional, collaborative, and inclusive process 
• Support the Lead UI Designer in developing and evolving the visual language, design system and UI library for Vertafore's products and platform 
• Enhance the incorporation of Vertafore's brand and voice into the Design Standards & Guidelines 
• Advance the cause of UI best practices: asset creation and maintenance, developer/engineer consumption of assets, web standards, accessibility, and inclusivity (standard across products for what devices and browsers Vertafore supports) 
• Devise valuable and viable UI components and UX patterns for Vertafore users, provide solid reasoning for their design decisions, and clearly document their designs so that they can be well-implemented 
• Support the UX Manager in creating a UX playbook of strategy, research and design 
• Share their visual design and UI knowledge with the UX team and Front-end UI Developers to help them grow their visual design sensibilities and craft 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• You're a self-starter, a translator, and a team-player who communicates your ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively. 
• You have a good grasp of the theories, concepts, and methods of usercentered design and interaction design (controls, states, etc.) which you have applied in a variety of ways. 
• You create UI components, information visualizations, illustrations, and UX animations with a visual style and language that is crisp, clean, inviting, and professional yet sometimes playful. 
• You have an impeccable sense of what makes visual design work and can clearly and diplomatically articulate feedback and recommendations during design critiques and technical reviews. 
• You are comfortable working with design systems and/or pattern libraries. 
• You have a solid grasp of visual design fundamentals: color, typography, composition, space, time/motion, information visualization. 
• You can create reusable, scalable visual design assets that fit into a greater design system and are consumable by developers and engineers. 
• You have a fundamental knowledge of design standards and keep abreast of ever-evolving web and mobile best practices including accessibility (WCAG, WAI-ARIA), responsive design, mobile first, content first, graceful degradation, progressive enhancement, etc. 

Qualifications:

• You have 1 – 3 years of experience doing visual and UI design, ideally in a mix of in-house and agency settings. 
• You have a portfolio of compelling portfolio of visual and UI design work spanning web and mobile applications including responsive web applications. 
• You demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills and an ability to persuasively articulate design rationale. 
• You are adaptable and thrive in a fast-paced environment. 
• Your working style demonstrates respect, initiative, ownership, transparency, and accountability. 
• You can easily move between considering the forest and paying attention to the trees. 
• You balance a passion for craft with on-time, on-target delivery. 
• You know how to adapt design approaches for the context of each project with minimal guidance. 
• You are proficient in Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), and InVision. 
• You have a fundamental *working* knowledge of front-end markup and frameworks including HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap. 
• You are familiar with the capabilities of Javascript and JS frameworks including Angular and ReactJS. 
• You are familiar with tools like Axure RP, Framer (and CoffeeScript), Zeplin, Principle, etc. 
• You have a knack for learning new tools. 
• You have a bachelor's degree in design, HCI, social science, or a related field.

• This position will be based in Vertafore's downtown Denver office. Local candidates within reasonable commuting distance preferred.