UI/UX Designer

The Flex Company was founded on the belief that people deserve innovative and sustainable period products. Our mission is to create industry-defining products and services that set a new global standard for period health. Four years ago we launched the most innovative period product since the tampon: the menstrual disc. It had been nearly 80 years since the tampon was introduced, and our new product was quickly embraced by consumers everywhere. Flex started as a digitally native brand with one product, and quickly grew to a family of period products sold online and in top national retailers such as Target, CVS, and Walgreens.

The Flex Disc™ and Flex Cup™ generate 60% less waste than tampons and pads and can be worn for up to 12 hours, all while maintaining the highest level of comfort through inventive engineering and rigorous testing.

As the UI/UX designer, you will be responsible for bringing the digital experience to life through visual design. Your vision will drive the interface and aesthetic of the Flex Company’s digital properties. As the UI/UX designer, you will work across departments to enhance customers’ experience and accessibility with the site. You will delight customers with designs that engage, inform and excite them.

The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience, affinity for consistency, color use, typography, and keen eye for subtle details. You should be enthusiastic about an iterative design process and have understanding of graphic design. Your goals will be twofold: how can you best improve our customers’ experience, and how can you do so in a seamless and beautiful way?

Responsibilities

• • Design mobile and desktop web experiences that maximize conversion & LTV, from ideation through execution
  • Producing high quality UX design solutions through wireframes, visual and graphic designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps, and prototypes.
  • Upgrade or re-imagine (whichever is the best approach) new and existing tools to drive customer engagement and conversions
  • Simplify complex experiences elegantly and explain them to leadership succinctly
  • Work with developers to ensure implementation matches specifications.

About You

• • You are naturally curious and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
  • You have a passion for brand and visual design excellence within a technical and digital product context
  • You take feedback in stride and have the ability to push back respectfully as needed
  • You have strong verbal and written skills and can effectively communicate to all levels in the organization
  • Able to function independently and in a team environment with solid collaboration skills

Requirements

• • 3-5 years of experience designing mobile & web apps
  • Strong experience in web optimization with case studies of previous successes
  • Experience building and evangelizing a design system or rebrand
  • Experience using Sketch and Zeplin
  • Compelling portfolio that can be shared Bonus points for Shopify Plus experience

In 1 Month You Will:

• • Meet the team and understand your roles and responsibilities.
  • Deeply understand the Flex customer, brand and site history.
  • Begin to ideate on design solutions to make the Flex website come to life.
  • Lay the groundwork for the digital style guide.
  • Uncover holes in the design process

In 3 Months You Will:

• • Finalize new site style guide.
  • Create enhanced ‘clickable’ prototypes demonstrating the intended functionality and behavior of user interactions in a clear and concise manner to be consumed by stakeholders for approval and ultimately the development team for production.
  • Work with product and engineering to ensure feasibility of your designs.
  • Implement newly approved style guide on key pages of the website.

In 6 Months You Will:

• • Create, maintain and keep up to date a dynamic design system library of assets.
  • Recommend optimizations based on your keen understanding of the user experience.
  • Work closely with product, product design, engineering and brand on new features.
  • Establish best practices on how designs are documented and communicated.

Our Shared Values

• • Choose Love Over Fear: You make sound decisions from a belief in yourself, others, or opportunities rather than out of fear.
  • Optimize For Trust: You have a track record of taking accountability for mistakes rather than blaming others. You communicate needs, concerns, and feedback directly with colleagues.
  • Have a Growth Mindset: You take constructive feedback well and actively seek feedback from colleagues. You are self-motivated to generate your best work and make a greater impact everyday
  • Be You: You are comfortable being your authentic self at work (including in the interview)!

The Flex Company was founded on the belief that people deserve innovative, sustainable, life-changing period products. After years of disappointment and discomfort trying dozens of products, Lauren Schulte Wang founded Flex to create body-safe, medical grade alternatives that outperform traditional period products. The Flex Disc and Flex Cup generate 60% less waste and have the capacity of up to three super tampons, all while maintaining the highest level of comfort through inventive engineering and rigorous testing.

Flex is sold at over 25,000 stores across the US and is the #1 alternative period product brand based on units sold. Committed to making its life-changing products accessible to as many people possible, Flex is available at Target, CVS, and Walgreens, and at flexfits.com.

The Flex Company is dedicated to equity in all that we do: from hiring to the design of our flagship products. Diversity is not a nice-to-have. It’s critical to the ideas, talent, and processes that help us create the most positive impact for our customers and for each other as colleagues.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, age, and other protected classes. We encourage people of all backgrounds and identities including Black and other under-represented minorities to apply to be a team member at The Flex Company.

We pay competitive salaries, equity, & benefits including (but not limited to) medical, dental and  vision health insurance, paid parental leave, cell phone reimbursement, and $1,000 annual learning credit to apply to anything that helps you grow professionally.