Giga UI Designer
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contract type: Consultancy
Application deadline: 8 November 2024, at 11.55 pm CET
Summary
Giga seeks a creative, passionate, and self-motivated and UI Designer to expand on, and maintain, the ongoing development of Giga’s Product Suite.
Giga is in the growing stage of developing a series of tech products as part of a larger product offer/suite. The individual in this position will own Giga’s UI development, leading products from design concept stage, development, to MVP launch and performing data-driven, iterative improvements.
As part of Giga’s Design Team, The UI Designer will be working closely with a UX Designer, a Graphic Designer, and a Design Lead (Brand). The Giga Design is a small but multi-tasking team working in an agile way, developing multiple products simultaneously in an ambitious tech-startup environment. The team collaborates closely with external developers/vendors for the product design development.
The UI Designer will also serve to advise on new products, solutions and global trends that will help our products achieve the ambitious goal of connecting every school and every community to the Internet.
Giga takes large ideas and makes them a reality; so being able to communicate complex and abstract ideas using data-driven decisions and clear visual, verbal, and written language is crucial. The candidate should exemplify a strong expertise in Agile/Lean practice and interface design for web-based designs, apps, data information systems, information architecture and systems mapping design.
Your responsibilities will be…
- Own and lead the product UI lifecycle, from prototype, MVP launch and ongoing versioned iterations, working closely to UX Designer, Design Lead, and external engineering teams.
- Work closely with the larger Giga Tech Team to continue a healthy evolution and the global scale of current and future Giga products such as Giga Maps, Giga Counts, and NFT and Blockchain products.
- Work and improve on Giga’s current UI design system.
- Implement UI-specific design processes to current team workflows.
- Validate wireframes and create high-fidelity mock-ups that support the technical development of websites, applications, software, and dashboards while ensuring that branding and technical guidelines are upheld across these platforms.
- Work as part of Giga’s Design Team in the development of visually impactful and innovative designs enhancing the current visual identity of Giga.
- Maintenance of the Giga brand across multiple channels and the development of internal and external facing visual assets to support this, ranging from product design to the global giga.global website.
- Coordinate the work of vendors /external partners who will support or iterate on concepts already established by the Giga team, providing design leadership, guidance and ensuring quality of their work.
Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role: UI Designer FINAL.pdf.
To qualify for this position, you will have…
- Certifications and/or diplomas in design, Graphic Design, Web Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field. *A bachelor’s degree in same related fields is an asset.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in tech product design or UI.
- Experience working with technical/UX design teams to build user interfaces and interactive prototypes, across multiple platforms such as desktop and mobile (Android and IOS).
- Strong understanding of design systems and front-end architecture for products, websites, mobile applications, data visualization and content management systems.
- Strong use of best practices for responsive layouts.
- Expertise and in web design, best design practices of web layout, color, composition graphics and imagery.
- Expert level knowledge in design tools using tools; Figma, Sketch, Adobe CC, and Invision.
- Problem-solving skills and knowledge of capabilities and limitations of web-based technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS.
- A critical design taste and a high attention to detail.
- Ability to lead and turn ideated products and wireframes into prototypes keeping in mind a user-centered approach.
- Skills in communicating and influencing product design strategy.
- Portfolio highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions.
- Knowledge of UX research and design are an asset.
- Experience working in start-up environments towards scale, with the ability to work with shifting priorities and at times fast-paced deadlines is an asset.
- Being an advocate for Human-centered design in Agile/Lean practices and resource constrained teams.
- Curiosity and willingness to learn about emerging open-source technologies and communities.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with designing for aid development causes.
- Web design experience and knowledge of web-building platforms (WordPress, Drupal) and/or front-end development is an asset.
- Previous experience or familiarity working with systems powered by artificial intelligence / machine learning is an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
Travel:
- The consultant is expected to travel to Geneva one time (1 trip), for a stay of 5 nights.
- The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa and travel insurance.
Payment details and further considerations:
- Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.
- The consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance.
- The consultant is responsible for arranging his/her own travel, including visa.
How to apply:
- Interested applicants are required to submit a financial proposal with an all-inclusive fee. Please see the financial proposal template here:
Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
- Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance.
- Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered.
About our team
We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.
About Giga
Giga is a joint initiative of UNICEF and ITU to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030. Working with corporate and non-profit partners, Giga maps schools’ Internet access in real time, creates models for innovative financing, and supports governments contracting for connectivity. It is part of ITU’s Partner2 Connect Coalition, UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, and the UN Secretary General’s Common Agenda and Roadmap for Digital Cooperation.
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About UNICEF
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. And we never give up.
UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.
About ITU
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of over 900 companies, universities, and international and regional organizations.