Lead Designer

We have large multi-year contracts with the nation’s largest utility providers. We are backed by top Silicon Valley venture capital firms and led by visionary computer scientists and entrepreneurs. Come be part of a team of designers passionate about creating the very best product for the new age world. As Lead Designer, you will be involved in every aspect of the product development process, from brainstorming the next great product innovation to tweaking pixels right before launch. You will be expected to utilize your full range of interaction design, visual design, and technical front end implementation skills. This position is full-time and based in SoMa, San Francisco. Responsibilities ● Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into functional and beautiful designs for our users and customers ● Quickly & iteratively Design lo-fi and hi-res flows and experiences that are simple and elegant ● Contribution to technical implementation of UX ● Contribute to high-level strategic decisions with the rest of the product and executive teams ● Give and solicit feedback from team in order to continually raise our bar for quality ● Partner with PMs, engineers, researchers and content strategists to oversee the user experience of a product from conception until launch (and then some) ● Manage Design Assets ● Conduct usability research and design validation experiments. Minimum Qualification ● You possess excellent communication skills (you should be able to clearly articulate your design decisions along with final specifications) ● Experience with front-end programming (you should be able to code up a somewhat complex web site and/or front end of an application-- HTML5, CSS3, JSON & some Android Material Design). ● The ability to think at a high level about product strategy and vision (not just how it should look but what we should build) ● Experience in building and shipping applications or software ● Must have a portfolio featuring examples of interaction design work & graphics that you specifically have produced ● 3+ Experience with usability and interaction design research. ● 2+ years experience with b2b / enterprise application design. ● 3+ Experience with current Mobile (specifically Android) and Web design patterns. ● Advanced in the following tools: Sketch, Illustrator, Invision, Mixpanel, Jira and Github We are a team of former Google Engineers and Designers based in Silicon Valley, New York and Phuket, Thailand. All of our core engineers are paid in the $150,000 range or greater and we also provide our engineers the opportunity to work, all expenses paid, from our Phuket, Thailand office one month a year as a creative outlet to work and enjoy life to the fullest. In this role you will work with some of the most exciting projects in the industry today with a team of fast moving engineers and designers who have a passion for building disruptive products. Punch is a full service digital agency based out of New York, Silicon Valley, LA, Boston, Stockholm and Phuket, Thailand. Here at Punch, we take pride in tackling our clients’ most challenging tasks. Founded by a group of former Google Engineers and now with over 75 staff, Punch is now leading the way in creating new cutting-edge technology. Were looking for innovative thinkers with a hunger to expand their knowledge! We are building a more technical world.Go ahead and check out some of our work here: www.punch-agency.com