Associate UX Designer

At SmartBear, we deliver the complete visibility developers need to make each release better than the last. Our award winning and industry favorite tools TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, and Zephyr are trusted by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at 32,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft.    Associate UX Designer Are you interested in starting your career as UX/UI Designer?  SmartBear is seeking talents with a passion for learning new technologies and best practices. Learn about design methodologies and prototyping in an innovative and creative culture. Organized learning path and insight into how IT companies operate. Tech stack: Figma, Miro, digital products, and mockups design. The successful candidate can work fulltime from our Wrocław office.   Team intro: You will be a member of a highly experienced team – UX Researchers, UX and UI designers. During your work at SmartBear you will have an opportunity to take part in the design process from the very beginning to the end. If you’re enthusiastic about creating products used by millions of developers and testers, you’re thirsty for knowledge, open-minded, and have a friendly approach, it’s a sign that you’ve come to a great place! Product intro: All businesses today interact with their customers via an app, and the wide range of use cases and configurations available in the market today makes it extremely hard to deliver high-quality apps at speed. And end-users today do not have the time nor patience to interact with apps that are buggy. This amplifies the need for tooling that promotes rapid test automation, and TestComplete is well suited to accomplish that.   Go to our product page if you want to know more about TestComplete .  You can even have a free trial to check it out 😊 About the role: As an Associate User Experience Designer, you will have the opportunity to work on the design of complex software testing products. Designers at SmartBear play a vital role in the product development process, from creating the vision and strategy for product features to crafting the fit and finish of interface details. What will you learn? Co-planning and co-conducting user research, usability tests, interviews with stakeholders and users, analyzing findings Creating lo and hi-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and clickable prototypes based on the collected knowledge and user needs Assistance in planning and running workshops with the team and clients Daily cooperation with the project team and the design team Communicating with people from all over the world, understanding cultural differences  Technologies and tools you will have a chance to work with: Prototyping tools, mainly Figma. Designing, mapping, iterating (and many more) in Miro. Components and patterns development. Examples of projects we will work on: SmartBear has a wide portfolio of products that use state-of-the-art technologies. You will get to be part of one of our product groups focusing on API, Test Management, Functional testing, or Observability design. As a person, we would love it if you are: Ready to share at least one project in your portfolio (it doesn't have to be commercial). Curious about other people’s opinions and perspectives, and happy being part of a creative team, bouncing ideas back and forth. Open to giving and receiving feedback openly in whatever format works best for you. Compassionate towards yourself and your colleagues. Lead to help continue improving the way we work together. Curious about acquiring new knowledge, and learning new design and prototyping tools, especially Figma. Effective communicator in English. Graduate in Visual Design, User Experience Design, or related domains. Ready for adventure 😊 Why you should join the SmartBear crew: You can grow your career at every level. We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun. We love celebrating our SmartBears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off. We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person. We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes. Did you know? Our main goal at SmartBear is to make our technology-driven world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve. SmartBear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland, and Bangalore, India. We’ve won major industry(product and company) awards including B2B Innovators Award, Content Marketing Association, IntellyX Digital Innovator, and BuiltIn Best Places to Work.   SmartBear is an equal employment opportunity employer and encourages success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, mental or physical disability, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, medical condition, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other legally protected status. #LI-JC3