UX/UI Designer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Avocado Guild is recognized as one of the earliest web3 gaming guilds working closely with blockchain games. The company was first established in 2021 and grew to become the largest web3 gaming guild, providing benefits for communities in SEA via gaming opportunities. Over time we’ve evolved to become a leading web3 gaming incubator, dedicated to building out the sector via strategic investments, game design, community building, and infrastructure development.

Our goal is to empower and educate the public about blockchain technology and opportunities through web3 Gaming. We are venture capital-backed by leading investors such as Animoca Brands, Solana Ventures, and Polygon Ventures just to name a few. The company is well-equipped to navigate and evolve within the sector of Blockchain technology with a focus on gaming.

About the role

The position is for a UX / UI Designer to join our IT Engineering team. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, the role will be responsible for assisting with IT developments efforts with upcoming Web2 and Web3 Development projects.

The role will include creating user-centric designs which will enable higher user engagement and informational clarity performance for both Web2-based user interfaces and Web3 DeFi and GameFi functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with team leads during the Discovery process to define the scope and high-level requirements of a project.

• Create, improve and use wireframes, prototypes, style guides, user flows, and effectively communicate your interaction ideas using any of these methods

• Present and defend your design decisions. All your design decisions should be based on the overall design roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles (i.e. color theory, visual weight, etc.)

• Develop flows that tell the story of a user’s journey with a given feature or mechanic, and can be used as part of a larger detailed spec.

• Support the development team to bring designs to life, including reviews, feedback cycles, agile and adjustments.

• Be an active member of the Design team, including peer reviews

Your Background

Skills and attributes for the success:

• 3+ years experience in a UX Designer/Product Designer role.

• Good understanding and insatiable curiosity of all things crypto gaming, blockchain and DeFi.

• Avid Gamer and demonstrate understanding of designs which resonates with gamers

• A demonstrated ability to illustrate a customer’s journey through a game or application.

• A high level of comfort with common UX methodologies and tools, including research, journey mapping, screenflows, and iteration.

• A strong affinity for collaboration and working with others to create designs.

Must have:

• Adaptability in an SME / startup environment

• Communication and presentation skills, high interpersonal skills.

• Abilities to set achievable and measurable personal goals for performance and growth and juggle multiple competing deadlines.

• A growth mindset and desire to continually learn and share new techniques and ideas

• A passion for games and blockchain-related technologies

Our industry is relatively new. We are all learning. You may have never worked in Play to Earn or Blockchain more broadly, but you are curious about it, have likely personally invested some of your hard earnt FIAT into cryptocurrencies, and can demonstrate the learning you have done in your own time to understand blockchain technologies and the emerging play to earn business models.

We can teach you the specifics of the emerging play-to-earn gaming segment of DeFi – but we need you to bring your foundational skills to help us tackle some of our trickiest problems.

Perhaps most importantly, you will be eager to work in a high-performing environment that values creativity, getting the job done, having fun, and making a concrete difference in the lives of our community and audience.

Why work for us?

• Be part of the journey to build one of the world’s earliest DAO from the ground up.

• Great culture: highly professional and ambitious, yet informal, friendly, non-hierarchical, collaborative, and entrepreneurial.

• Business is backed by top-tiered VC and Industry leaders.

• Work with the best talents in Crypto, highly experienced executives, and advisor teams.

• Best place to learn crypto and be part of a high-performing team on the cutting edge of blockchain technology.

• Playing to your strengths, work with senior management on a career development plan. This leads to opportunities to move into other areas of guild management and also lead your own projects.