Remote Front-End Web Designer

About Joydrive Joydrive ( joydrive.com ) is changing the way people buy or lease their cars. We are the first online store offering customers a 100% digital solution to buy new and used cars from dealerships, including a customer’s trade-in, financing and home delivery. We want to make car buying enjoyable again! With financing and trade-ins built directly into the mobile-friendly platform, home delivery in as fast as one day, and a five-day return period, customers experience a seamless, transparent, and worry-free purchasing transaction all handled by licensed professionals. We have a dynamic culture of continuous improvement and work collaboratively in an educational environment to develop excellence in our products, service, and customer experience. Everything we do is founded on having a great team and a culture of growth. Job Description We are looking for a front-end designer who has strong interaction design experience and interested in expanding into new technologies to join our growing team. You’ll work with our existing agile technology team to build a platform that is forever changing the way people buy cars from dealerships. Designers who work for Joydrive create visually great design as well as doing great product design and user experience, and then implementing their designs with HTML and CSS (SASS). You will create user stories, task flows, use cases, etc. to build pages and screens and create a “best practices” workflow to our platform. Joydrive designers solve complex problems with thoughtful design, thus creating a beautiful and effective user experience. You will lead user testing, sketching, wireframing, and sitemapping in order to implement and make your ideas a reality. While HTML/CSS experience is a must, experience with Javascript is a plus. Job Duties Understanding of basic front-end languages: HTML5, CSS3/SASS Understanding and experience using git and GitHub as part of your workflow User Experience Design Creating Mock-ups (low-fidelity and high-fidelity wireframes) Usability Best Practices and User-Centered Design Interaction Design (Adobe CC, Sketch, Invision, etc., and basic Graphic Design) Feature Development and Product Management / User Advocacy Ability to design simple, usable experiences that scale across a complex suite of multiple platforms (web, smartphone, tablet) Qualifications Experience working with an agile development process and a design sprint approach Experience working on a distributed team (or experience working remotely) Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment Desire and passion to change a decades-old industry Strong work ethic and positive attitude Asks questions and challenges decisions they disagree with thorough & thoughtful discourse All persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification upon hire. Joydrive is a drug-free company. Applicant will be required to complete and pass a drug screen. Compensation and Benefits This position will be full time and remote-based. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.