Senior Designer (UX/UI)

Mejuri is the category-defining fine jewelry brand redefining luxury, your way. Feeling disconnected from an industry that typically markets to men, co-founder and CEO Noura Sakkijha leveraged her learnings as a third-generation jeweler to rethink the way women purchase jewelry for themselves.

In only seven years, and with a team of over 75% women, Mejuri has shipped over one million orders and opened retail stores across the globe, all while introducing new products weekly.

Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.

As part of Noura’s original vision to empower women to invest in themselves, the brand launched the Empowerment Fund to support underrepresented women and non-binary individuals with the tools to empower themselves.

Mejuri continues to reach new customers through exciting community initiatives and expansion into international markets, such as the UK, Australia and Germany.

We are a team of retailers, creatives, technologists and strategists, and we are looking for someone special to join our team.

As the Senior Designer, you will play a pivotal role in the development and execution of our E-commerce and Digital assets and Retail printed assets.

This role requires a unique blend of creative vision, exceptional Design taste and skills, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating and maintaining visually compelling and highly functional digital and printed design systems that enhance the customer journey and drive business growth.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and development of E-commerce and digital assets, ensuring visually compelling and highly functional user experiences that align with our brand identity.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of printed assets for retail, ensuring consistency and excellence in visual communication across all customer touchpoints.
• Develop and implement design systems that enhance the customer journey, driving engagement and business growth through innovative and user-centric design solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Brand Creative, Integrated Marketing, CRM and Retention to design seamless and engaging user experiences across all channels.
• Develop and maintain design systems, guidelines, ensuring consistency across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs for web and mobile applications, as well as printed assets for retail.
• Stay current with industry trends, design trends, emerging technologies and tools, and best practices in e-commerce, retail, and digital design.
• Independently work on multiple projects at once and able to evaluate the importance of business priorities.
• Ownership of consistency, and creative quality control over concept work and execution.
• Guide junior designers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance and support to the development team, ensuring design feasibility and optimal implementation.
• Analyze and interpret data to measure the effectiveness of design solutions and iterate based on insights.
• Ability to work on a diverse range of projects with little oversight and direction including channel-level toolkits for other design support.
• Collaborate with the retail team to design engaging in-store experiences that reflect our brand and enhance customer satisfaction.

What You'll Bring To The Team

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Interaction Design, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in (digital) design, with a focus on e-commerce or fashion on either Agency or In-house side.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Fluent in social media platform best practices : Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Google.
• Demonstrated experience in creating responsive and adaptive designs for web and mobile platforms, as well as retail environments.
• Excellent visual design skills, with a keen eye for typography, color, and layout.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about design challenges.
• Proven track record of ability to work in a fast-paced setting under tight deadlines, with strong project and time management skills.
• Demonstrated resourceful and strategic creative thinker; exploring solutions independently before raising concerns.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders.
• A portfolio showcasing a range of digital and retail design projects, including examples of e-commerce and fashion-related work.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Familiarity with A / B testing and data-driven design methodologies.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.

Deadline to apply : August 19th 2024

August 19th 2024

Benefits at Mejuri :

• A minimum of three weeks vacation, plus personal days and three religious observance days.
• A hybrid work model for all corporate roles.
• Mejuri Passport’ which allows employees who meet specific criteria to work in other locations for one month per year.
• Comprehensive medical and dental benefits, including mental health coverage, and generous personal and sick days for our full-time employees.

We also offer bereavement leave, including miscarriage and stillbirth support.

• Parental leave salary top-up of up to 80%, as well as a personalized return-to-work transition and accommodation plan for full-time employees.
• Semi-annual performance reviews.
• A generous product discount!

Please note that these benefits apply to full-time employees.

Location :

At Mejuri we embrace a hybrid working environment and support our corporate employees to be successful whether they are at home or in the office.

The primary purpose of our offices is to drive collaboration and deepen relationships with one another.

Accommodation / Accessibility :

Mejuri does not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, ancestry, colour, place of origin, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, family status or marital status, or any other protected category recognized by provincial or federal laws.

Should you require any accommodation, please inform us and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any accessibility-related assistance, requests for information in accessible alternative formats or to report any accessibility problems, please share in your application.

Salary

Looking for the perfect next opportunity is a big decision. Mejuri recognizes the importance of pay transparency when it comes to salary ranges as it empowers individuals through the hiring process and supports them in making an informed decision.

Salary will be commensurate with experience. The salary range is between $101,000-$130,000 per year.

Along with our central mission and vision, we have guiding values that set the tone for where we’re heading and how we work together.

These values are behaviors that form our shared beliefs and approach to how we wish to work together at Mejuri, regardless of role, level, and work location.

Our 8 core values help drive our decision making when we are cross collaborating, redefining luxury, and creating a sense of commitment and inclusion to help shape our company culture.

Our values are :

• FIND A WAY We break down problems into manageable steps, explore creative solutions daily, learn from failure, and adapt quickly.
• RAISE THE BAR We share constructive feedback openly, continuously improve personal and team performance, collaborate and challenge for better outcomes.
• CUSTOMER OBSESSED We actively listen to customer feedback, make decisions that impact customers positively, continuously refine product, service, or customer interactions.
• EMPOWERED OWNERS We proactively address cross team challenges, willingly tackle any task big or small, take initiative, and lead by example.
• JUST DO IT We make informed decisions quickly, encourage experimentation and learning, encourage thoughtful risk-taking, embrace change, and stay adaptable.
• HUMILITY We acknowledge team contributions before self, acknowledge and learn from mistakes, maintain an open and receptive mindset, and promote a respectful work environment.
• CURIOSITY We seek out new challenges daily, ask questions to understand deeply, reimagine and innovate to drive progress.
• DRIVE RESULTS Set clear goals and prioritize tasks, focus on high impact activities daily, monitor progress through clear metrics, stay persistent and solution-oriented.

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