Diwala is looking for great UX Designers to join our remote team full time. Could it be you?

Salary Competitive

We are looking for a UX Designer to be hands-on in product development with a focus on our users. We need you who have great knowledge of inclusive interaction design to join us in making our services helpful, exciting, intuitive, cohesive, and beautiful.


So... what do we do?

We create digital solutions for identifying and verifying talent. Our vision is to infuse the global skill market with trust and transparency - to incentivize growth and independence. Our mission is to provide a digital proof of skills for talent around the world. No little task - we know! But we have a lot of fun doing it.

 

We work from anywhere, always.

In Diwala we work from wherever we want and have done so for years. A lot of companies are now opening their eyes to remote working and although it is not for everyone, it suits us perfectly. As a designer in Diwala you will be able to meet colleagues physically if you are based in Kampala, Nairobi, Oslo, or Colombo but our process is optimized for remote work. Don’t worry - we make sure to get to know each other and have a coffee-chat from a distance ☕️or company trips.

Being a remote/distributed company means we need to stay innovative in gathering user insights, despite not always being able to meet them physically. We hold digital workshops and find smart solutions for insight and understanding, to build the best product we can!

 

Stuff we do as designers in Diwala:

  • User- and market research

  • Journey mapping

  • Sketching

  • Prototypes in all forms

  • Develop our style guide & component library

  • Graphics and illustrations

  • Testing

  • Workshop facilitation

Your main tasks will revolve around user research, ideating with the team, prototyping (from mockups to wireframes and testable prototypes), and collaborating with our amazing team of developers. As a team, we set vision and strategy, and we want you who are eager to contribute with your ideas and perspective.

 

As a startup, we are always in a need for speed, and we hope that is something you enjoy as much as we do. We keep the ball rolling, but we never forget to check in with our users and make sure we are building the right thing, and building it right.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Diwala

Diwala is a Norwegian-based company that is focused on building opportunities for youth, addressing the global issue of identity theft and certification fraud. Today, displaced individuals and people in emerging markets are challenged by high costs and slow manual processes to verify the authenticity of their skills, identity and credentials. As a result, these individuals have to deal with tedious and out-dated credentialing processes, and are in some cases forced to repeat years of education. This leads to both loss of productivity and inflated unemployment. Imagine that you had to flee your own home because of war. Like Aıscha Najjar, a Syrian doctor turned refugee immigrated to the United States to pursue her dream of work & a safe home. Yet, due to loss of information, she was forced to repeat medical school in the United States. If she had a verifiable skill identity, she might have had the privilege of practicing medicine without any questions. Aıscha`s story amongst others epitomizes the challenge Diwala is addressing. To tackle this challenge, Diwala has created a platform that enables schools and NGOs to issue skill-based identities, backed by blockchain technology. A skill-ID is a digitally verified record of a person’s educational and work history. Diwala is building an ecosystem of trust, by enabling educational institutions and organizations to safely and digitally issue and verify credentials. This will, in turn, save all parties time, money and build a bridge for global work opportunities for untapped talent. Complementing the platform, Diwala has built an app that allows students to easily receive, store and share credentials of both soft and hard skills. By utilizing a decentralized identity management tool, Diwala’s application will also give people ownership of their data information. Diwala is currently executing pilots regularly, to optimize the features and security of the platform in both Kenya and Uganda. Working with their implementation partner Clarke University in Kampala, Diwala recently issued the first set of skill-identities to both students and administrators. These are the first ever digitally verified certificates backed by decentralized identity and blockchain in Africa

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