UI Designer (contractor)

About TrialPay:

TrialPay (www.trialpay.com) is changing the face of e-commerce. We're building a payments and promotions platform that uses efficiencies of the Web and a patent-pending optimization engine to increase revenue for e-commerce sites. The company's revenue has grown faster in its first two years than Google or Amazon. Entering its third year, the company has served more than 40 million users and is continuing its trend of triple-digit revenue growth year-over-year.

We share an open, friendly and intellectually stimulating work environment among our team of 80+ employees. They hail from top universities and some of the most successful Internet companies. (Although, they probably wouldn't bring this up unless you asked.)

We're located in downtown Mountain View, California. Our office is walking distance to CalTrain and is surrounded by great restaurants, pubs and coffee shops. Apart from the cornucopia of edibles, every day is punctuated with a social gathering around the “exotic fruit social hour.” On Friday afternoons, the smell of tasty food wafts from the kitchen throughout the office to tempt employees to put down their work and start to socialize for “Balcony Fridays.” TrialPay has hosted wine and beer tastings, trivia nights, poker tournaments... and there’s a rumor of a karaoke night on the horizon. And every once in a while, a full-scale (foam) dart-gun battle breaks out in the office and pits marketing vs. engineering, BD vs. advertising and sends anyone else in the office running for cover.

TrialPay offers excellent benefits, including health/medical/dental and three weeks of vacation. Plus, we provide many other perks, including: CalTrain reimbursement and 3G cards for commuters, Mac laptops, telecommuting options and regular company get-togethers.

TrialPay is backed by leading venture capitalists including: Index Ventures (Skype, MySQL, last.fm), Battery Ventures (Akamai, InfoSpace, MetroPCS), Atomico (Skype, last.fm, Kazaa), Bob Pittman (former AOL president and founder of MTV), Ron Conway (Google, PayPal, Twitter), and executives from several top Internet companies.

TrialPay is offering the chance to work on the ground floor of a fast-growing, financially strong company. We hire great people and encourage them to achieve their potential. Our company culture is defined by high energy, sharp intellect, creativity and collaboration. We believe in hard work, a fun, open atmosphere, and the autonomy to push one’s limits. If you are exceptional at what you do, you're a passionate team player and you want to have an impact on millions of people, then we'd love to hear from you!

About the Opportunity:

The UI Designer (UID) is a part-time role working directly with the product manager and sales manager of one of our online consumer products. The UID will be responsible for wireframing improvements to flows and then transforming them into a beautifully skinned, simple, intuitive user interface. If desired, there are other potential projects available ranging from designs of websites, banner ads and emails for our Rolodex of name-brand partners, including McAfee, Skype, Papa John’s, Netflix, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and many more. The ideal candidate will have a clean design aesthetic and be capable of adhering to corporate identity while continuing to create innovative designs.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize and construct wire-frames
• Build interactive prototypes (as needed)
• Design clean, intuitive skins for our online product and convert designs into production ready assets
• Work directly with product, design and sales teams to advance product design and functionality
• Incorporate best practices into design aesthetics to optimize conversion rates
• Occasionally create high-quality online designs, such as banners, e-mails and landing pages
• Organize and maintain a centralized repository of design assets and partner mock ups to ensure that all graphics are readily accessible, categorized and searchable

Requirements:

• 4+ years of professional Web design experience, preferably in an agency, marketing or in-house creative services environment with a proven track record for creating branded Web site experiences
• Strong visual design, layout and typographic skills with a sharp attention to detail
• Able to design compelling graphics while meeting aggressive deadlines
• Organized and able to act independently, as well as to switch quickly between different projects in a fast-paced environment while maintaining an attention to detail
• Strong Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver skills
• Knowledge of HTML and CSS required
• Academic background in HCI or related field a big plus
• Willingness to work onsite occasionally (approximately one-two days every couple of weeks at our Mountain View , CA office).

Reports to:
Product Manager

Location:
Mountain View, CA