User Experience Designer

About Circle Digital Ventures

Circle Digital Ventures is dedicated to advancing human sustainability within the maritime sector. Our technology-driven solutions target seafarer health, safety, wellbeing, and financial inclusion. We build deployable innovations such as industrial safety wearables, telehealth platforms, mental health initiatives, and fintech applications.

Role Overview

We seek a skilled Visual & UI/UX Designer well-versed in both compelling visual design and practical digital product design. This role involves crafting engaging marketing materials and customer-facing collateral alongside intuitive, user-centered experiences for mobile applications, responsive websites, dashboards, and business portals. Close collaboration with Marketing, Sales, Product, and Engineering teams is essential to translate concepts and requirements into effective and attractive designs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design impactful social media content, advertising creatives, email graphics, and website banners.
• Create brochures, flyers, product sheets, sales presentations, and other customer-oriented materials.
• Develop event collateral including booth graphics, backdrops, standees, and promotional assets.
• Convert campaign directives and product details into clear, engaging visuals adapted for various digital and print channels.
• Prepare print-ready files and liaise with printers or external providers as needed.
• Translate product requirements into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity interfaces, and interactive prototypes.
• Design UI for mobile apps, responsive websites, dashboards, and business portals, covering comprehensive user journeys with onboarding, navigation, forms, and task completions.
• Define interface states such as loading, empty, error, and success with clear interaction guidelines, while ensuring adherence to accessibility, usability, and responsive design standards.
• Collect feedback from users and stakeholders to refine and improve design clarity and usability.
• Prepare detailed developer handoffs including specifications, assets, and responsive design instructions; review implemented interfaces and work with developers to resolve any visual or usability issues.
• Maintain brand guidelines, reusable templates, organized asset libraries, and Figma components and style documentation.
• Ensure visual identity consistency across products and marketing materials.
• Collaborate effectively with multiple teams to clarify briefs, priorities, and delivery timelines, managing several design projects simultaneously.
• Communicate proactively regarding potential timeline conflicts or delivery issues.

Qualifications and Experience

• Diploma or degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Interaction Design, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 3 to 6 years professional experience combining visual design and digital product UI/UX.
• Strong portfolio showcasing both marketing creative work and product interface design.
• Advanced proficiency in Figma including use of components, Auto Layout, and prototyping features.
• Competence with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or similar graphic design software.
• Deep knowledge of typography, layout, color theory, visual hierarchy, and brand consistency principles.
• Experience designing responsive user interfaces and preparing developer-ready design specifications.
• Understanding of print production processes and digital asset requirements.
• Capability to lead design projects from concept development through to final delivery.
• Excellent attention to detail alongside strong communication and time management abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in crafting design work for both B2B and consumer markets.
• Background in designing data-intensive dashboards, intricate forms, and multi-step workflows.
• Basic skills in motion graphics, short video editing, or illustration.
• Familiarity with front-end development concepts such as HTML/CSS constraints.

Portfolio Requirements

• Provide examples of social media creatives, campaign assets, marketing collateral, or presentation decks.
• Include at least one detailed UI/UX case study illustrating the problem, user flow, and final interface design.
• Clearly state personal contributions to each included project.