Europe-based applicants only.
About Reedsy
We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.
We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!
Responsibilities
As a UX/UI Designer, you will be working closely with our founders, Lead Designer and engineering team to craft beautiful interfaces and develop an outstanding user experience.
Working across multiple products, you will:
Design new user journeys, features and products;
Contribute to maintaining and evolving existing applications;
Design and maintain the components, UI patterns, and documentation for Reedsy’s design system and component library;
Develop (at least some of) the front-end for your designs and collaborate closely with our engineering team to ensure perfect implementation.
Requirements
5+ years of experience as UX/UI designer and ability to implement (some of) your own designs;
You enjoy learning about complex concepts, dissecting them, and simplifying them for the team and ultimately users.
Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma;
Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles;
A portfolio of design work;
Good, critical eye for detail;
Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills;
Experience working remotely.
Bonus points
Experience working with fast-growing Series A – B startups
Experience with Ruby on Rails
Fluent in multiple languages. Reedsy welcomes applicants of all cultures and backgrounds.
A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience as a UX/UI designer with ability to implement some of your own designs
- Experience developing front-end for designs (implementing designs in code)
- Knowledge of design tools such as Sketch or Figma
- Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design principles
- Portfolio of design work
- Perfectly fluent in English with strong communication skills
- Experience working remotely
- Experience working with fast-growing Series A - B startups
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Fluent in multiple languages
- Ambition, willingness to learn, and a good sense of humor
What We Do
A friendly place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books: Reedsy is an award-winning community of over 1,000,000 authors and publishing professionals. Our mission is to help authors create high-quality books by connecting them with the world's best editors, designers, marketers or ghostwriters. Since our launch in 2014 we have been developing a number of resources for authors to learn about writing craft and publishing (blog.reedsy.com) and for professionals to develop their freelance career (blog.reedsy.com/freelancer). In 2019 we launched Reedsy Discovery (reedsy.com/discovery) to give the best indie books the exposure they deserve. Reedsy is a fully remote company with a diverse team of 40, coming from 15 different countries. ⛰ Read about our co-founder Matt spending 3 months living and working from the Alps: https://www.businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-heres-how-2018-5
