As a Product UX/UI Designer, you’ll be joining a growing team who are incredibly passionate about creating elegant solutions for our customers, both internal and external. At AlphaFlow, you will have an opportunity to contribute to strategic endeavors through collaborations with Product, Engineering, and our Servicing and Investment teams, learning the nuances of our business and why we are the subject matter expert in our asset class. You will be involved in the entire product development lifecycle, from ideation to final details. You will utilize your complete range of product, interaction, and visual design skills to help define new AlphaFlLow products, our design systems, and overall customer satisfaction. This position is full-time and fully remote, although we have offices in San Francisco, CA & Austin, TX, if office work is your thing.
In your first 30 days, you can see yourself:
* Getting to know our customers, stakeholders, and platform
* Asking questions & building partnerships across departments/functions
* Contributing to designing and prototyping new product modules
* Contributing to our design system
* Developing user guides and onboarding documents to set our clients up for success
* Maintaining user engagement metrics and tracking user behavior to identify areas for improvement.
Beyond 30 days, you can imagine
* Understanding our customers and their needs; serving as their advocate when making design decisions
* Identifying design problems to devise elegant solutions
* Collaborating with product managers to flesh out new features in our products, translating functional specs into wireframes, clickable prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups with a variety of design and prototyping tools
* Making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functionality plus rapidly testing and iterating designs
* Delivering assets to agile development teams and refining as needed during two-week project sprints
* Contributing to and evolving our design system
* Guiding engineers on how to use our design system and best practices for UI/UX design patterns
* Communicating best practices for information architecture, interaction design, and user-centered design processes
Qualifications & Things we love to see
You may not have all of these & that’s okay
* You’ve worked in Product, UX/UI, or a similar field for 3+ years
* You are willing to get deep into understanding the financial side of our business
* You have a strong understanding of best practices and user-centered design principles
* You are comfortable working with complex systems and communicating design impact to your partners You can utilize data and expose avenues for a clearer understanding of user needs
* You can tell stories using research and dataYou’ve experienced the entire product development lifecycle, including ideation and continuous improvement/enhancements.
* Your communication style is frequent, kind but honest, and audience aware
* Ability to adapt to a fast paced and evolving environment
* You have a few case studies of previous work or a basic portfolio
Bonus Points
Nice to haves
* Enjoy mentorship B2B experience
* Experience with financial technology
* Knowledge of Webflow or similar CMS Knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS
* Bachelors in design, equivalent field, or comparable experience
Access. Transparency. Technology. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow is connecting the $600B non-bank real estate market with the world’s capital markets. We partner with non-bank real estate lenders around the country who provide 6-12 month bridge loans on single-family and small multifamily properties, as well as rental loans. AlphaFlow empowers these lenders to grow by purchasing their loans and thereby expand their businesses with less capital.
To further help lenders, AlphaFlow designs and builds software to streamline and automate today’s manual workflow. Our engineering team is constantly developing simple and elegant solutions to further automate a manually intensive industry.
As a result of leading with technology and data analytics, AlphaFlow is able to provide transparency & speed at a rate our competitors cannot match.
AlphaFlow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.