ICON Technology
Now Hiring

Senior UX Designer

ICON is re-imagining the approach to homebuilding and construction to make affordable, dignified housing available to everyone throughout the world. We’re crafting a new generation of end-to-end digital solutions for ICON partners, customers, prospects, and the general public. Given the uncharted nature of what we do, we’re looking for someone who is able to pivot quickly. 

ICON is seeking a flexible, multi-faceted, motivated UX designer to join our fast growing BuildOS team of developers, designers and technologists who are working together to transform the construction industry. As a UX Designer, you’ll play a critical role across many challenging products and projects. ICON is an early-stage company, with a highly collaborative environment. Our flexible work schedule and open office culture set us apart; to make that work we’re looking for a responsible, efficient, and seasoned designer. 

This role reports to the Director of BuildOS and is based in our Austin, TX lab.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design rich user-interface solutions across a range of platforms and devices.
  • Ensure interactive and visual designs achieve the highest level of usability, desirability and customer satisfaction.
  • Work with Product and Engineering to grow strategic concepts through user research, design exploration, and ideation.
  • Develop and maintain our interactive prototypes and design systems for the BuildOS suite of products.
  • Contribute to complex projects with the ability to work well with ambiguity or when requirements are in ongoing development.
  • Rapidly iterate,  prototype and test new design ideas. Apply the learnings to future iterations.
  • Analyze tasks, patterns, navigation and user flows that align with best practices for web and mobile.
  • Participate and conceptualize at a high level about product strategy and vision - not just visual ideas but what we should build and why.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • A compelling online portfolio demonstrating full design process execution, an understanding of UI design patterns and systems, and excellent design skills. 
  • 5+ years professional product design experience. 
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Design, Fine Art, HCI, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Solid foundation in best practices and principles of UI.
  • Experience designing interactive products for desktop and mobile.
  • Experience creating, expanding and maintaining design systems for a suite of products.
  • Proficient using design and prototyping tools: Figma, Invision, Illustrator.
  • Ability to iterate through various stages of ideation: Discovery, Low Fidelity Designs (Wireframes), High Fidelity Deliverables.
  • Ability to speak expressively about design and development with any audience.
  • Experience designing, maintaining, and utilizing design systems.
  • Demonstrable track record designing enterprise web and mobile applications and/or Rich Internet Application (RIA) design.
 
ICON is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an innovative, inclusive, and discrimination-free work environment. Employment with ICON is based on  merit, competence, and qualifications. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), genetic trait, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable law. If there are accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
 
Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit candidates through this application. ICON does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency submissions for candidates and will not pay fees to any third-party agency without a prior agreement with ICON.
ABOUT THE TEAM

Solving one of the most challenging problems humanity faces requires a level of diversity across disciplines. ICON believes that by being a non-homogenous organization, we can capture unique perspectives, educational backgrounds, and ideation. We strive to be inclusive and seek team members who share our passion for the mission within the mission: building robust and diverse teams to help us prevail in the face of our challenges. 

We're a team of varied backgrounds, countries, and experiences, and we believe our differences make us stronger as we tackle some of the most challenging problems of our time.

MISSION-DRIVEN

Every startup wants to change the world, but we genuinely believe we're not being hyperbolic when we say this technology has the potential to reinvent human shelter, dramatically improving quality and resiliency while driving down costs to make housing affordable for everyone. We believe in harnessing the power of construction technology for the good of all humanity, both here on Earth and off-world. And while we get excited about R&D accomplishments in the lab, we get more excited when we see our work out in the real world, printing real homes for real people.

We work hard because we know what we are doing can reshape the way we live as a species. And it doesn't hurt that it's super fun. Where else do you get to play with giant robots and see the results of your work manifest in beautiful full-scale buildings that didn't exist before—and that someone can now call home?