Product / UX Designer at a growing international proptech startup

Are you passionate about creating products that people love and can make a real difference in people’s lives? Your work at BOOQED will directly impact how people meet/work on a daily basis, improve and provide the best user experience, and ultimately flip the boring real estate industry upside down.

We are looking for a user-experience (UX) designer able to understand our business requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups and prototypes.

The UX designer will also be expected to design the overall functionality of the product, and in order to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.

About Us

BOOQED is a leading digital marketplace for short-term, flexible commercial space. Our platform quickly and easily facilitates transactions between tenants needing short-term space and related services with landlords/operators that have unused or underutilized space.

Our vision is to make every single space accessible and productive for business. Whenever. Wherever.

BOOQED began in Hong Kong, with operations now in Singapore and Shenzhen. We also have spaces in 5 other cities throughout Asia and are in the throes of expanding further.

BOOQED is proudly backed by a group of top global investors, including institutional VCs and strategics, and one of the largest commercial real estate companies. We’re also a proud alumnus of the inaugural class of the Colliers-Techstars Proptech Accelerator Program, the only one chosen from East Asia.

Responsibilities
- Translate concepts into user flows, wireframes, mockups and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping and user-testing experiences for digital products
- Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
- Work closely with Product team to make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
- Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
- Ask smart questions, take risks and champion new ideas

Qualifications
- Three or more years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
- Expertise in standard UX software such as Sketch, Figma, InVision, UXPin, Balsamiq, Framer, or similar tools is a must
- Rock-solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability and accessibility concerns
- Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision
- Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions, and a deep understanding of mobile-first and responsive design
- Ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications
- Excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval
- Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism

Bonus Points!
- Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
- Previous experience working at a startup is highly valued
- Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment
- Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
- A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design and design thinking.
- Basic HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
- Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
- You take your work seriously but not yourself!

Even though we are based in Asia, we currently have a full-time product team in Ukraine, so you won't be alone!

About BOOQED

BOOQED is a leading digital marketplace for short-term, flexible commercial space. Our platform quickly and easily facilitates transactions between tenants needing short-term space and related services with landlords/operators that have unused or underutilized space.

BOOQED saves time and reduces rental expense of tenants by providing work, meeting, and event space options while increasing revenue for landlords and suppliers by monetizing unused space.

Our mission is to make every single space accessible and productive for business. Whenever. Wherever.

BOOQED began in Hong Kong, with operations now in Singapore and Shenzhen. We also have spaces in 5 other cities throughout Asia and are in the throes of expanding further. We also have a full-time product team based in Ukraine.

BOOQED is proudly backed by a group of top global investors, including institutional VCs and strategics, and one of the largest commercial real estate companies. We’re also a proud alumnus of the inaugural class of the Colliers-Techstars Proptech Accelerator Program, the only one chosen from East Asia.

Company website:
www.booqed.com