We’re looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer to join our seriously fantastic team

Psst. Hey you. Yeah you! Are you a curious and resourceful UX/UI designer with several years of experience and serious visual design chops? Someone who loves collaborating with super smart, driven and fun people at a startup that’s growing like crazy and making a positive impact on the world? Are you passionate about improving the experience of your users AND your team? Can you appreciate a good pun? No? Oh. Okay. You can stop reading now.

Okay, so now that the nos are gone… HI! Darn right you’re interested. Let’s talk details. 

A little bit about us

We’ve got something really exciting going on here at Verblio. We are transforming the world of work and the world of marketing at the same time. And despite the global dumpster fire that was 2020, our full-tilt growth and grandiose plans for world domination have shown zero signs of slowing down. 

What do we actually DO though? Well, in case you haven’t heard, content is at the core of successful modern marketing—but it’s really hard to create quality content, particularly at scale. Many companies can’t staff for the time, talent and flexibility they need to harness the power of content. So, we introduce our community of over 3,000 pro writers to the digital agencies, businesses, enterprises, and publishers who need them most, through our easy-to-use marketplace platform. We brew this powerful SaaS + marketplace potion led by a 20-year marketplace industry veteran and staffed with a team of energetic, eclectic startup junkies, writing enthusiasts, and random liberal arts degree collectors.

And we have a LOT to do. To harness the incredible opportunities before us, we need to speed the development of our platform and expand our team to do so.

That’s where you come in. 

We’re looking for a designer who…

• ...can’t decide whether they like UX, UI or visual design more
• ...has excellent typography skills and nerds out about it 
• ...eats complexity for breakfast and beauty for dinner
• ...is equally able to execute their own work or direct and mentor others
• ...is a strategic and conceptual thinker, hungry to use inspiration, user research and data to solve tricky problems and push the vision of our digital product
• ...doesn’t stop at Lorem Ipsum, but writes draft copy in their design mocks so that hierarchy and user flow truly make sense
• ...sees typos, misaligned elements, the wrong shade of gray, or missing frames in a complex user flow and froths with the need to fix them
• ...can use constraints like business requirements, technical viability, promised release dates, and the feedback of real users to generate LOTS of potential solutions
• ...knows how to communicate the pros, cons, and options in their work so that stakeholders with different expectations and expertise across the organization can understand
• ...has fantastic verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams (and appreciate our puns)
• ...loves to brainstorm and riff with other collaborators of all levels and types
• ...compulsively seizes opportunities to experiment with and improve everything they touch with a great attention to detail
• ...has a healthy dose of whimsy, adventurousness and ra-ra team spirit

What you’ll do every day

• Seek out and champion the voice of our customers and writers. Become an expert in their desires and pain points
• Design UI/UX  for our 3-sided digital marketplace. This means you’ll be designing for our customer experience, writer experience, and admin tools
• Drive the execution and maintenance of our digital design system and Figma components library in collaboration with the rest of the product/dev team
• Execute projects from start to finish: (i) plan and coordinate tasks, (ii) seek out requirements and feedback from stakeholders, (iii) research, analyze, strategize, make recommendations (iv) create sketches, wireframes, pixel-perfect brand designs or high-fidelity UI designs (and revisions at every stage)  (v) perform usability testing (vi) work directly with engineers, and (vii) maintain libraries of UI and visual brand assets
• Mentor, inspire and generally collaborate with other designers, copywriters, product managers, developers and stakeholders across the company
• Do all of this in a bootstrapped startup environment with limited resources. Because we like challenge, variety and the freedom of autonomy
• Oh, and you’ll be reporting to (and partnering with) Verblio’s Senior Director of Design & Product, and contributing independently to our scrappy Product team of (soon-to-be) 4

What you’ll need to be successful

• 5+ years of professional experience turning complex problems into beautiful, usable design solutions. You can share several shining examples of real work you've shipped, and what you learned along the way
• Strong English language skills
• Ninja-like time management and prioritization skills, driving toward resolution even when juggling multiple projects
• Readiness to pitch-in and adapt in a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to “speak engineer,” with a working knowledge of HTML, CSS, accessibility, mobile-first or responsive design approaches, and database + analytics basics 
• Fluency in standard prototyping tools of varying fidelity (for example: paper prototyping, Figma/Sketch)  and collaborative tools (for example: Invision, Miro, LucidChart)
• Effectiveness when working remotely and collaborating with remote teams. We’re based in Denver, CO, but the Verblio team spans multiple cities and continents

Why you’ll love working at Verblio:

• You’ll have a high degree of ownership  and opportunity to inspire your passion and personal fulfillment
• Your work will be varied and challenging to help you grow every day
• We’ve got a really vibrant, people-first company culture (we made a podcast episode about it). We’re smart, welcoming, creative, and engaged in our jobs. We have a low turnover rate because people love working here. Check us out
• Did I mention we’re growing like mad? It’s way more fun to be on a rocketship than riding in circles on a model train set. (No disrespect to model train enthusiasts.) We made the Inc 5000 list for the third year in a row, won our sixth Mercury 100 award as one of the fastest-growing companies in the Boulder Valley, and just made the Colorado Companies to Watch list.
• Our current obsessions: Ted Lasso (“Football is liiife!”), our newly rebranded Podcast “Yes, and Marketing”, and a new game we made up called “Can we scratch that niche?”—set to a theme song based on Tribe’s “Can I kick it”—where we guess if our writers can deliver on the bizarre expertise that our prospects are looking for (hint: they can). 

Read our website to get even more of a vibe

What we offer for benefits and stuff:

• This position pays $85k–105k a year, commensurate with experience.
• Exciting stock options. 
• Health, dental and vision insurance options with a  generous monthly company contribution, plus an optional 401k plan
• Family-friendly benefits, including generous parental leave, employer-paid short-term and long-term disability.
• Truly flexible paid time off and holidays
• Every last Friday off
• A snacklio stipend for WFH snacks
• Some day when we can safely co-locate again, we’ve got in-person perks like free food & drink, fun events,  a hip centrally-located Denver office, a free RTD Eco-pass, etc… Some day. :wistful-sigh:

We’re headquartered in Denver, CO but this position can be remote.