If you thrive in a stable entrepreneurial environment and enjoy spending your time designing great user experiences and consumer web applications from scratch, we’d love to hear from you.
Oak Grove Labs is a new media incubator founded by an experienced and successful team of serial entrepreneurs, and funded by a Fortune 200 media company. While still in stealth, we can share that we are looking to build innovative online entertainment businesses in large markets ready for disruption. Like our last business, which turned profitable and was acquired within 12 months, we anticipate that our new products will be adopted by millions of users worldwide, underpinned by a business model with a clear path to profitability.
As UI Designer, you will report to the Director of Engineering. You will join a small team of experienced developers, eager to impact the future of online entertainment (movies, music and television). The ideal candidate is a design generalist with strong web user experience background, loves working in HTML, and is equally comfortable collaborating closely with both product and engineering colleagues.
Responsibilities:
– Translate product vision, product requirements, and user feedback into a successful web user experience
– Work closely with a small, talented engineering team to support faithful implementation and continuous improvement of the user experience
– Drive all aspects of the design process, including production of all deliverables - wireframes/mockups, HTML prototypes, stylesheets
Requirements:
– Strong UI / UE design skills: 2+ years professional experience in UI, interaction, or user experience design pertaining to web applications
– Expert knowledge of HTML and CSS (including hand-coding of HTML/CSS)
– Expert user of Adobe Creative Suite, including Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Illustrator
– Experience developing complex, table-less layouts implemented with CSS
– Experience with ImageReady/Fireworks to slice and optimize images for the web
– In-depth understanding of cross-browser UI development issues and best practices
– Previous work on consumer web applications strongly preferred
– Familiarity with version control systems a plus
Rewards and Culture:
In addition to the opportunity to work with other top notch programmers, designers, and entrepreneurs, you will be immersed by entertainment. Our company culture values teamwork, experience and smarts with a premium on the occasional break to do something social with our friends and family.
Interested? Send an email with your resume to jobs@oakgrovelabs.com