Product UI Designer at BookRenter.com in San Mateo, CA

About Us:

Since launching the first textbook rental site in 2006, BookRenter has never wavered from our mission to make education more affordable for all students. Every day, we focus on delivering students the best prices, the most flexible options, and the best service on earth. Offering more than 5.5 million titles and serving millions of students on over 5,000 campuses, BookRenter has saved students more than $180 million dollars on their textbooks.  Also, for every order on BookRenter, we'll make a donation to First Book to put new books in the hands of children in need. On March 13, 2012 BookRenter.com, Inc. formally changed its name to Rafter, Inc. We are still the same company with the same great people, only our corporate name has changed.  With offices in San Mateo, California, Rafter, Inc. is a private company that is funded by prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms.  Check us out at http://www.rafter.com/.

Primary Responsibilities:

As Product Designer, you will:

• Be responsible for all aspects of our product's interface, experience, and visual design
• Generate hand-drawn sketches of proposed designs
• Generate low-fidelity and high-fidelity mock-ups of proposed designs
• Conduct customer interviews and tests against both paper and digital prototypes
• Apply empirical methods (A/B and multivariate) to optimize designs for goal behaviors
• Work with external designers to scale and implement your vision
• Continuously self-educate in a manner consistent with a recognized product leader

As a Designer of Web Applications, you will additionally:

• Manage HTML, CSS, and asset production
• Establish and evangelize any applicable style guides
• Train other team members on modern front-end web production standards

Minimum Requirements:

• Visual, technical, and organizational mastery of Photoshop
• Fluent in freehand sketching, both on paper and whiteboards
• Experience with Fireworks and Illustrator highly desirable
• Experience conducting A|B tests in goal-oriented web and Facebook applications
• Demonstrated success designing for Facebook
• High level of personal discipline
• Demonstrated success driving designs from concept to launch

Perks:

This position offers competitive salary, benefits, and the chance to improve the lives of millions of students.