About the Role
As a UX Designer, you will design the digital experiences that Vale customers and operators rely on, combining research, strategy, and craft to create interfaces that are clear, efficient, and delightful.
Responsibilities
- Lead UX research including user interviews, usability testing, and competitive analysis
- Design end-to-end user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers to deliver well-crafted, feasible designs
- Develop and maintain UX documentation including personas, journey maps, and design principles
- Facilitate design critiques and cross-functional design reviews
- Contribute to and help evolve Vale’s design system
- Measure design effectiveness through data and iterate on experiences post-launch
Requirements
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Portfolio showing end-to-end design process
Skills
- Enthusiastic about matcha, curious about its benefits, flavor profiles, and preparation methods
- Detail-oriented, ensuring consistent, repeatable, and high-quality products
- Versatile, comfortable sharing expertise and capable of owning new areas
- A bar raiser with proven experience, elevating standards
- Excited to be part of a growing team
- Empathetic, designing complex experiences to be simple and intuitive, advocating for the user
- Proficiency in Figma
- Experience with prototyping tools
- Strong research skills
- Experience running usability studies
- Ability to design for both mobile and web platforms
- Experience designing for hardware-connected digital experiences
Location
- Seattle
Experience Level
- 4+ years of UX design experience
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000 – $170,000 per year
Benefits
- Company funded ORCA card
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Annual bonuses
- Joining a fun startup in Seattle
About the Company
- Vale aims to make magic and bring the real benefits of matcha to a billion people.
- A group of fun-loving, matcha enthusiasts believing that a good idea can come from anywhere.
- A Seattle startup making magic through cutting-edge technology, automation, and world-class hospitality experiences.
- A dynamic and highly cross-functional team with experience in food service, food automation, software engineering, aerospace, and consumer electronics.
- Develops the Matcha experience of the future for cafes, neighborhood parks, or homes.
