Web Designer
Do you daydream of a crowd standing around you in awe while your hands summon HyperText Markup Language from your brain onto a screen — only to snap back to reality and die inside when you can’t even centre a <div> without flexbox?
We’ve all been there. If margin: 0 auto means anything to you, then we’ve already established common ground. If it means nothing to you, well, that’s fine too; your web design enthusiasm is most welcome.
Does working remotely on your own terms appeal to you? Are you sick of the agile kool-aid, wasteful standups, enduring meetings, making the logo bigger, and project managers nagging you for progress updates? Well, so is the designer writing this job post.
Curious? Read on.
What are we looking for?
Put simply, we’re looking for a low-code web designer. Somebody who can design in Figma and build out the frontend in Webflow, end-to-end. This is the crux of what we’re after. If you’re a multidisciplinary designer who can cover UI & UX design too, even better — but it’s not essential.
Beyond the above, we would love to work with somebody who’s a bit of a passionate nerd; somebody with an appetite for learning new things, tinkering curiously, and solving interesting problems. Somebody who tries to find the best design or solution, not just the easiest or most obvious one.
Interests in machine learning, science, and EdTech are some good bonuses to have.
What about the work itself — what sort of stuff will you work on?
High level
At Scholarcy, we build ‘tools for thought’. Our focus is on making research more understandable, reading more efficient, and organising knowledge easy. Our product is designed for students and researchers, from undergrad to postgrad and beyond.
Remember the joke about centering a div earlier on? Well, if you’ve ever read a research paper, you know it’s just as hard to get to the point. Insights are buried within pages full of jargon, and academic journals love rendering all these papers in their own style which makes reading lots of them and extracting all the good bits really hard.
This gap between the reader and the research is the core problem we’re working on at Scholarcy. Making scientific knowledge more accessible is what we do.
The day to day
- Concretely, your day to day will involve designing and developing new pages for our website using Figma & Webflow. This work also includes updating existing pages.
- You will work with our Head of Product, COO, Head of Marketing and others, to help bring it all together.
Skills
- Effectively translating simple briefs > Figma designs > Webflow frontends.
- Working with Style Guides & Design Systems.
- Working with the Webflow CMS, page templates and components.
- Understanding of the BEM naming convention for CSS classes. You don’t have to know this coming in, but it’s roughly what we use.
- Understanding of semantic HTML.
- Solid understanding of asset-optimisation: knowing what formats to use when, and properly sizing+compressing them before using in production.
- Understanding of Google Lighthouse and the methods used to optimise page performance.
- Basic understanding of CSS.
- Solid understanding of QA processes (e.g., cross-browser, cross-device responsive design testing; functionality testing; page speed testing; on-page SEO testing).
- Great communication (i.e., being available on Slack during work hours, and never holding back if you have a question, need help, or have an opinion).
- Ability to work independently and with others.
Quals
- A strong design folio + a strong Webflow folio (quality over quantity is fine).
What we offer
- $65-$85 hourly rate, depending on experience.
- 2-3 days per week.
- Freelance/contract based.
- Work remotely.
- Flexible working hours.
Our company culture
- We’re a mix of folks from the UK, Argentina & Australia, with a range of interests. You can check us out here.
- We’re easy going, open-minded, and keep things lighthearted.
- We’re all about autonomy and letting people focus on the actual work.
- We don’t care for burnout. You will sooner be told to stop working than to keep working.
- We don’t have dedicated managers. Everyone owns the work they do; updates are posted asynchronously, using a combo of Slack, Loom & Basecamp.