UX Designer

This is a full time inhouse position for a UX designer with a passion for designing for Web + smartphone and startups.

About scheme verge

scheme verge is a startup aiming to reinvent cities with a data centric approach through the platform Horai, together with an international team while providing cutting edge data science consultancy services to a wide variety of clients relating to urban development.

Our Metal breaks through the noise

Founded by a Scandinavian Metal music fan specialising in Urban Engineering graduating as top of his class at the prestigious Tokyo University, we’re not your average pick. Our international team has members from Japan, Sweden, India, Vietnam and Ukraine, and as we grow it, diversity is something we strive to increase, as having a wide variety of perspectives makes us stronger.

This variety in perspectives is what enables us to see how to revolutionise real estate asset management with a foundation in data and our backgrounds helped us understand that it is not a problem located not only in Japan, but across the globe.

As a part of our business model we’re providing data science consultancy services while building the Horai platform.

Creating the next level Real Estate Management platform as a Analytics-as-a-Service

We believe that connecting various industries relating to real estate management and transportation will provide additional insights into what cities could potentially be to not only residents but also tourists.This we do by creating the Horai platform, providing travelling recommendations and deeper on site experience through a smartphone app specialising in Art and events. To achieve this we are working with locals in the Setouchi area and also other regions that have Japan’s leading art sites, historical resources, gastronomic culture, etc., and international level artists but also collaborating with companies involved in community development and urban development in each region and with international art festivals and art projects.

We continuously strive to create new solutions from nothing, always aiming to create a deeper depth in any experience while considering various regional characteristics and customer characteristics.

About the position

As a UX Designer, you’ll help us design our web and mobile apps together with our engineers, taking initiative on how our applications look.

We care about incorporating and evaluating the trends overseas in our apps and we hope that you’re keeping an eye out for new trends and design patterns as well. Always striving to grow as a person and as a professional is something that our team is keen on and we hope that you share in this as well.

Your position will entail tasks such as

• Grooming & planning user stories & features with PM & PO and the rest of the team
• Doing field research together with customers and PM
• Designing, prototyping, sketching
• Planning and implementing user evaluation strategies
• Helping out with recruiting and onboarding new members

As this position will be for an member of our team, we ask that you fulfil the following requirements:

• Native proficiency in Japanese, or JLPT N1 or N2.
• 2+ years work experience relating to UX/UI design

We would also like to see experience with any of the following:

• Experience with Graphical Design
• Experience with designing for Web and Mobile
• Has been involved in shipping apps and iterating
• Experience with processes such as Lean UX
• Understands the concepts behind design patterns such as Material Design and Atomic Design, Asset Management, Business Model, Community Development, Data Science, Design Patterns Programming Methodologies, Diversity, Estate Management, Graphic Design, Internet Application, Mobile Applications, Music, Onboarding, Property Management, Prototyping, Real Estate, Smartphones, Startup, Trend Analysis, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface Design, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Web Design

We offer market level salaries complemented with a lucrative stock option package, accompanied with the ability to leave a footprint on the platform we are building.

Depending on the seniority level, full time commitment on the remote may be offered but we prefer candidates who are willing to work inhouse from our office close by Tokyo University in Tokyo, Japan.