Description
As a Mid-weight Visual Designer for a fast-growing and already sizeable VC-backed Internet business, you will be a critical part of every non-product feature from conception to launch, working constantly with product management, engineering, and marketing. Your designs and ideas will be an invaluable contribution to HouseTrip’s continuing growth.
HouseTrip is one of the most exciting start-ups in London. We’re focussed on disrupting the travel industry by giving our guests access to the best holiday rentals. We are an award winning company with more than 275,000 properties in over 15,000 destinations worldwide. With over 4 million guest nights booked to date we are growing at a phenomenal rate.
Now is a very exciting time at HouseTrip. Having secured funding from the same investors as Facebook & Spotify we’re looking for individuals passionate about problem solving and design. We were voted London #2 Startup by Wired Magazine and recently joined the “Future fifty” group listing the 50 most influential and fastest growing tech companies in the UK.
The organisation is informal, results focused and energetic, so we are looking for resourceful, creative designers who will fit well in this culture and help us redefine the future of travel.
Reporting to the VP of Design, you will be part of a small collaborative team based in our Central London Office. You will help create a unique, intuitive and exhilarating user experience across the HouseTrip channels and will deliver outstanding design work on all aspects of the HouseTrip brand.
An online portfolio is required to apply.
Responsibilities
- Work with designers, Product Managers and copywriter to create layouts and design features for non-product related features.
- Broaden your horizons - you’ll be working with Marketing, Operations, HR, Finance, PR & Customer Care to produce valuable design concepts and work on some very interesting projects, such as redesigning our entire Careers Page, creating new designs for our Targeted Ad Banners, Interactive Search Banners and more.
- Take part in the creative/conceptual phase to create outstanding design and user experience across the HouseTrip brand.
- Work independently and collaboratively with different team members on projects as well as taking direction from senior members of the team.
- When needed, help designers with product related design.
- 3 to 5 years of experience ideally In-House e-Commerce
- We’re looking for someone with sharp interaction design skills
- An impressive portfolio that showcases deep interaction and visual design skills
- Experience of creating compelling storytelling in an online environment
- Production of stunning, interactive experience visualisations as well as precise design documentation.
- The communication skills to clearly articulate your design ideas, and the persuasiveness, conviction and wisdom of experience that allow you to effectively evangelise those designs
- A team-first ethic: ability to see, and help the best ideas to win
- Proficiency with the Adobe suite and prototyping tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Omnigraffle, Axure, Flash, HTML etc.
- Strong skills in typography, graphic design, grid systems and layout
- Ability to understand brand consistency, strictly follow branding guidelines and should have an excellent eye for detail.
- Experience designing user interfaces for websites and applications with user generated content, social API integration, or complex back-end architectures
- Deep familiarity with latest web technologies/techniques, and code fluency - basic understanding and comfort with HTML/CSS
- Ability to rapidly produce multiple design concepts
- Experience in the travel and leisure industry would be an asset
- Be part of something BIG. We’re a hyper-growth multinational / multilingual Internet business, where the opportunities for growth and development are vast
- You'll have an impact on a booming business, where you can make a real difference and be part of our success story.
- Join a data-driven environment, which empowers its staff to perform at their best
- You’ll be joining a friendly in-house team of passionate professionals, and our homy office environment comes with free unlimited coffee and tea (for your caffeine addiction), bean bags (if you want a change from your usual desk) and a games area to think, chill, or blow off steam.
- Plus get free breakfast and snack daily, great Apple equipment, get 5 weeks of holidays, Friends & Family HouseTrip discount, Beer o’clock on Fridays, be part of our Social Committee with monthly event, ride2work scheme, free interest season ticket loan, training and development, lounge area with Football and Ping pong tables…. and bully Squid, our mascot office dog!
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