Product Designer (Mobile Applications) Full Time

Summary:

Kyivstar.Tech, a Ukrainian IT company and subsidiary of Kyivstar, seeks a Product Designer to create innovative mobile applications. With over 500 specialists, the company fosters an entrepreneurial culture, driving transformative solutions to enhance user experiences and business potential.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth research to understand user needs, workflows, and pain points specific to mobile applications, driving user-centric design solutions.
• Map and analyze user journeys to identify opportunities for improving mobile app workflows and interfaces.
• Collaborate as a key member of the product team with Product Management and Development to align design activities with product strategy, ensuring seamless integration of mobile app functionalities.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and daily standups to maintain alignment and ensure timely execution of design tasks.
• Conceptualize and design wireframes, user flows, and process diagrams tailored to mobile app-specific user scenarios.
• Create interactive prototypes to visualize and validate design ideas, iterating based on stakeholder feedback and usability testing results.
• Conduct usability tests tailored to mobile app users, gathering actionable insights to refine features and improve the overall user experience.
• Lead the visual design process for mobile app interfaces, including onboarding, navigation flows, and feature interactions, ensuring consistency with Kyivstar.Tech’s design standards.
• Develop and advocate for mobile app-specific design guidelines, best practices, and usability standards to improve user satisfaction and adoption.
• Leverage analytics to measure the effectiveness of mobile app design features post-implementation and continuously refine designs based on data-driven insights.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 2 years in UX/UI design with a focus on mobile applications.
• Proficient in Human-Centered Design and Service Design methodologies, with a proven ability to balance user needs with business goals.
• A robust portfolio showcasing mobile app designs or similar complex workflows, including navigation flows, interactive features, and user interfaces.
• Mastery of design tools like Figma or Sketch, experience with prototyping tools.
• Familiarity with paper prototyping is a plus.
• Familiarity with platform-specific UI guidelines for iOS and Android, ensuring compliance with design standards and optimal user experiences.
• Awareness of the technical constraints and opportunities in mobile app development to create designs that are both feasible and innovative.
• Experience working in Agile or Scrum environments.
• Strong written and spoken Ukrainian and English (Intermediate level or above).
• Familiarity with customer research methodologies and an ability to translate findings into actionable design improvements.

Benefits:

• Office or remote — it’s up to you.
• You can work from anywhere, and we will arrange your workplace.
• Remote onboarding.
• Performance bonuses for everyone (annual or quarterly — depends on the role).
• Opportunity to learn through the company’s library, internal resources, and programs from partners.
• Health and life insurance.
• Wellbeing program and corporate psychologist.
• Reimbursement of expenses for Kyivstar mobile communication.