UI Designer at Foursquare in New York, NY

About foursquare:

foursquare helps you and your friends make the most of where you are. We're a small but highly ambitious company with millions of users worldwide relying on foursquare to keep up with friends, discover what's nearby, save money and unlock deals.  We’re also helping over a million registered merchants ranging from local businesses to global brands connect with their customers. 

To thrive as a member of team foursquare, you must embrace our exciting work-hard, play-hard environment. We're a closely-knit team and, especially at the end of a long day over beers, we feel like we're inventing the future together.

About our UI Designer role:

Foursquare is seeking an experienced user interface designer with front-end skills to help bring new features to the surface for our millions of users. The ideal candidate has a keen visual eye and solid front-end code skills with experience building real products for the web and mobile web.

This position will be based at our New York City headquarters in SoHo. We offer a competitive compensation package including equity options and full bennies for all employees.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in bringing to life products on the web from idea to execution
• Create pixel perfect visual designs based on UX wireframes and specs
• Maintain, contribute and adhere to our best practices and brand guidelines
• Write best-in-class front-end code to the highest standard
• Ability to complete and juggle multiple projects and responsibilities whilst having fun

Requirements

• Strong visual and user focused design skills and an eye for detail
• Experience designing simple and intuitive web and mobile web user interfaces
• Strong front-end skills writing beautifully hand-crafted HTML and CSS
• Solid understanding of web standards and accessibility
• Experience working with a version control system (Specifically Git)
• Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment