UI / UX Designer (Contractor / Freelance + Remote) at Lori Nigeria. Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.
Lori is a venture-backed, rapidly growing start-up that has built a cutting-edge, tech-driven, logistics services platform that seamlessly coordinates haulage across frontier markets. With a mission to reduce the cost of goods in frontier markets, Lori is tackling a massive issue; $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, and up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).
Lori was recognized as the fastest-growing start-up in Africa and won Techcrunch’s Battlefield Africa. Our tech-enabled and operations-driven marketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The system brings transparency to the logistics industry and has significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (upwards of 20%). Billions of dollars of cargo move through the Lori platform annually.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: UI / UX Designer (Contractor / Freelance + Remote)
Location: Lagos
Department: Product
Employment Type: Contractor
Minimum Experience: Mid-level
About the Role
- We are seeking a hands-on UI / UX Designer to join our Product team. As a UI / UX Designer, you will partner with our data engineers, product team leads, and logistics teams.
- Your job will involve participation in ideation sessions and you will be expected to translate complex problems into simple solutions.
- You must be passionate, a great communicator and motivating to those around you; at the same time, maintain the highest level of craftsmanship.
What You’ll Do
- Work with stakeholders to lead design projects across the entire life cycle from ideation to launch
- Create multiple concepts, translate them to high fidelity designs, and prototype interactions
- Maintain our design system and contribute ways to work more efficiently
- Move fluidly between tools, as we use a combination of Figma, UXPin, Sketch, ProtoPie and Adobe CC
- Iterate based on feedback, initiate A/B testing, and follow through on user research
- Assist with technical implementation and uphold quality assurance of project builds.
What it Takes
- 3+ years of UX design experience and a portfolio that showcases UX, visual design skills, and interaction
- A passion for solving problems using design
- Experience building products for web, tablet, and mobile form factors
- Experience conducting usability studies and interacting with end users/clients
- Full cycle designer from concept through to solution, polish and asset creation
- Excellent communication skills
- Expert level user of design, presentation, and communication tools
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript frameworks like React
- Adore visual storytelling and data visualization
- Have a passion for staying at the forefront of technology and design.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
