Job Description

Vittana (www.vittana.org) is hiring a talented and passionate UI/UX designer to help Seattle’s premier social impact startup become the #1 marketplace for global education.

We’re on a mission to change the world (really) and the software and experience you design are integral to our success. This is a part-time position offering the potential for full-time employment…if you knock our socks off. You'll work collaboratively with opinionated smartypantses in a casual environment.

You will work hard, have fun — just like the rest of us — and may on occasion be asked to carry 6-ton elephants on your back across a bed of nails while being chased by a pack of hungry Antarctic penguins.  And, you know, deal with the CEO's bad jokes.

Responsibilities:

• Create experiences so slick and seamless that visitors become addicted to micro-lending.


• Help build killer back-end software, enabling us to efficiently pass information between students, lenders, Fellows, and MFIs worldwide via the intertubes.


• Lead projects from grey matter to white board to red carpet while establishing and maintaining a cohesive visual style and tone.


• Balance pie-in-the-sky ideas, biz goals, market analysis, user feedback, site metrics, and your own great taste.


• Define, articulate, evangelize, and integrate design principles – you’re our only hope.

Experience and Abilities

Required:

• An online portfolio that screams, “Hire me.”


• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques.


• Thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment - easily bored otherwise.


• Bachelor's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

Strongly Desired:

• Codependent relationship with Adobe.


• Thrilled by the modern UI/UX possibilities enabled by things like TypeKit, AJAX, and HTML5. (No coding skills are required, though. We want you to focus.)

How to Apply

Email your resume with a cover note that explains a little bit about yourself and why Vittana is exciting to you to jobs@vittana.org with “Designer // [your name]” in the subject line.

Vittana - About Us

Vittana’s mission is to empower young people to build a life of opportunity by removing barriers to education. We believe that education is the single-most powerful tool to fight global poverty. On www.vittana.org, anyone with $25 can support the education of a young man or woman in more than 11 countries around the world. Vittana students study everything from accounting to nursing to teaching to welding.

Since pioneering the concept of student micro-loans in 2008, the Vittana community has supported more than one thousand students in 10 countries. On average, Vittana students triple their income — going from living on $3 per day to $8 per day in Asia, for example. Vittana students have a 99% repayment rate. Vittana has been featured in the Economist ("a hotbed of innovation"), Fast Company ("5 Social Capitalists Who’ll Change the World”), New York Times (“next new thing”) and many others.

Vittana is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization headquartered in Seattle, WA.