UX designer

Salary Competitive

Yepstr's vision is to help young people take the step into the labor market. Through our app it's possible to find your first job in the neighborhood like babysitting or gardening and begin building your CV. When you've proven yourself dependable you unlock jobs for companies. We've succeeded when all high-school students graduate with a CV filled with references and multiple job-interviews waiting!

UX Designer at Yepstr

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Yepstr is looking for a talented designer that will create awesome user experiences and make the world a better place at the same time. Here you’ll have the opportunity to join us in a super exciting growth period but still the early days of the company.

We are looking for someone who loves to combine thoughtful, beautiful design and a user experience that makes the UI intuitive, simple and fun to use – how it feels to use a product is as important as how it looks.

As a UX designer at Yepstr you will get the chance to be the guardian of the overall user experience in our product. Your primary focus will be, together with the rest of the product team, prioritize and create new concepts for flows and functionality and improve our foundation as you go.

To your help you have our, very much, engaged community giving you the opportunity to conduct user tests and interviews with our existing users. Together with your gut and feel you’ll have complete access to our analytics tools to take data driven decisions.

With your work you’ll make everyday life better for families while at the same time helping young people to their first jobs.

You are someone who likes to take control of the entire design process and you’re full of initiative. You will be surrounded by a great, ambitious and curious team who loves to listen, discuss ideas and help out in anyway they can. At Yepstr you’ll both give and receive tasks from others. Collaboration is crucial. You’ll share your learnings and victories on team meetings and smaller focus groups. This is a workplace where you have the chance to grow as a team mate and designer.

Responsibilities

With an analytical mindset (together with a fellow UI-designer) create user friendly, engaging and innovative design solutions and concepts for our mobile app.
Design solutions that are in sync with the overall experience of Yepstr. Collaborating with a UI-focused designer and our marketing team go from low fidelity wireframes and ideas to production ready design.
Plan and conduct user interviews. Quantitative and Qualitative.
Iterate your design based on feedback from the team and our users and user data.
By yourself and with the rest of the team create new concepts and ideas for the app that are inline with our overall key objectives.
Continue to grow as a designer. Create a plan for yourself and your skills, specialize in certain areas or learn completely new things to take us to the next level.

We are looking for someone who ...

Is autonomous and a self-starter. Someone who can create a plan for themselves and hold themselves accountable for execution.
Can show previous relevant experience and has designed for mobile devices (web, iOS and/or Android)
Is curious. You read up on new and current design and tech trends, competitive apps or take inspiration from completely different industries to make Yepstr a better company and product.
Is a creative, responsible and goal-oriented person
Is fluent in English (Swedish is a plus)
Is a team player. We are a small growing company - We take care of each other, listen and help out. To take and give feedback is a natural part of our work.

Yepstr

We have five core values that drives our work at Yepstr. Ownership, Ownership, Humbleness, Curiosity, Pride and Perseverance. These words permeate our daily work and we would love to hear what these words mean to you!

We are a team of seven enthusiasts and we are all responsible for our own unique fields of work. We actively work for a flat organization where everybody can contribute and make their voice heard steering the ship for our common goal – to give all youth a fun, easy, safe and motivating way in to the labour market.

Our offer

If you join us this early in our journey and want to help to build this company your will get rewarded! When your probationary period is over you will get offered to become a shareholder through options.

Curious about how Yepstr make a difference?

Listen to our CEO Jacob talk about it.

Podcast: https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1452113607/whats-in-the-water/gamifying-teenage-jobs-with-jacob-rudback

Short version: 4 minute pitch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx4MlUT4hbw

Long version: 30 minute interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOfsSXyxfss&feature=youtu.be

Our users (in Swedish)

Meet three Yeps, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_nlcsu4uU

Meet the customer Pernilla, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbAKuUA4W8w&t=4s

Is this you? Awsome!

We’re looking forward to hear from you.

Start: To be discussed but as soon as possible would be great!

Office: Stockholm, SUP46; Regeringsgatan 65

Role: Full time (6 months probationary period)

Salary: Competitive salary with share ownership through options. The amount depends on your experience.

Perks and benefits

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Yepstr's vision is to automate the process of finding ambitious young people their first jobs in their neighborhood - and when they are ready - to interviews and real jobs for companies. We've succeeded when all high-school students graduate with a Yepstr-resume filled with references and multiple job-interviews waiting for them... if they want them. We are a pretty cool group of people who've bonded together over the fact that we're all ambitious and want to make the world a bit better.