Product Designer (Freelance)

Position Overview:

Indagare is seeking a freelance Product Designer to join our Technology team. The Product Designer will bring their UX/UI skills to build innovative, brand-forward digital platforms for our members and internal staff. This will be a 3-6 month role to start with the possibility of extending with an approximate time commitment of 30 hours per week. 

The Product Designer will play an important role in crafting the overall experience of the Indagare digital platform, encompassing the website, internal tools and future iOS application, to ensure they are intuitive, efficient, and aligned with both user needs and business objectives. Additionally, the Product Designer will conduct user testing and explore design possibilities for upcoming features, contributing valuable insights to enhance the Indagare.com experience. Furthermore, the Product Designer will maintain and update the style guide to ensure consistency across all digital assets.

What You’ll Do:

• Assist our Creative Team in designing solutions with a simple, delightful, engaging user experience that accomplishes business goals, aligns with our brand and works well with our technology
• Partner closely with Creative, Product and Engineering to translate user goals into elegant designs for both external customers and internal staff
• Develop user flows and wireframes for new product features
• Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes for user testing
• Develop style guide and translate visual designs into Product ready Figma files
• Employ UCD methodologies to incorporate qualitative and quantitative feedback 
• Collaborate with developers to ensure product design is implemented correctly
• Understand and balance user needs, technical capabilities and business objectives 

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years of experience designing and shipping consumer-focused digital products and working with product teams
• Experience in visual design, interactive design, and user experience
• Understanding of web and mobile best practices, design standards, and latest trends
• Facility with UCD methodologies and usability principles
• Online portfolio demonstrating command of visual design across platforms (web, mobile, app) and detailed spec & style guides
• Understanding of how design impacts development and the ability to create dynamic engaging sites
• Experience working in a lean, dynamic startup culture preferred 
• Some experience in a remote working environment is advantageous

About You:

• Self-starter who takes initiative and works challenges through to viable conclusions
• Collaborates with others to ensure better outcomes and build strong networks
• Problem solver with attention to detail
• Excellent communicator with a strong design point of view
• Significant experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Suite and prototyping apps

About Indagare:

Indagare is a members-only, boutique travel-planning company that offers curated content, customized trip-planning and group trips around passion points.

We partner with our members to design a personalized roadmap for their lifetime of journeys and handpick experiences perfectly suited to their preferences. Through our global network of partners, guides and tastemakers, we deliver real-time, honest intel and unlock behind-the-scenes access and exclusive perks that they won’t find anywhere else.

Founded by top travel expert Melissa Biggs Bradley, Indagare leverages its global network of guides, tastemakers, influencers and content curators to create extraordinary experiences and bespoke trips for its community of passionate travelers across digital, social, print and partnerships. Our mission is to inspire and empower people to change their lives through travel. 

www.indagare.com | @indagaretravel | #howyoutravelmatters

Why You Should Join

The Indagare team is the heart and soul of our company. We are committed to a culture that values a generosity of spirit and believes deeply in the power of being kind: to ourselves, our colleagues, our suppliers and our clients. We believe that travel broadens the mind and enriches the soul.

Indagare Travel is an equal opportunity employer. This means we affirmatively prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and we ensure that equal employment opportunities are afforded to all applicants and employees alike without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), gender, national origin, sexual orientation, domestic partnership status/civil union status, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, lawful use of any product when not at work, observance of Sabbath, political activities, domestic violence victim status, criminal accusation, use of service dog or any other protected class. Indagare Travel is committed to conforming to not just the letter but also the spirit of all applicable laws and regulations regarding equal employment for all. Our policy of equal employment opportunity and anti-discrimination applies to all aspects of the relationship between Indagare Travel, and its applicants and employees.