Job Description

We\xe2\x80\x99re seeking an experienced, multi-talented designer to help us make impactful, user-friendly websites, and empower mission-driven organizations with digital strategy to make the world a better place.

You have a mix of research and design experience, and understand that design is as much about how things work as how they look. You champion the needs of the user while understanding our clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs, and you are comfortable working with and presenting to clients directly.

You are also a team player and excel at communicating and collaborating with others. You are a great listener, teacher, and facilitator. You are organized and capable of juggling multiple projects. You are generous with your knowledge and skills, and you\xe2\x80\x99re continually looking for ways to improve processes.

In this role you will be the lead designer on projects, often working alongside other designers at Kalamuna or our partner agencies, and sometimes as the sole designer on an agile team. You will participate in discovery, design, and implementation phases of projects large and small, ensuring the design objectives of the project are well socialized, documented, and implemented successfully. On any given project you might interview stakeholders, conduct usability audits, develop wireframes, build and test prototypes, or craft visual identity systems. You may also be asked to research and implement new processes, write blog posts, and speak at conferences.

Candidates for this position must reside in the USA or Canada. We are a distributed team, so you must be able to work remotely, and have an excellent broadband internet connection. If you are an expert in primarily UX or UI design, or if you are a talented intermediate, we are open to hearing from you too!

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
• 5+ years of web design and 3+ years of agency experience
• Experience as lead designer on projects, working with others to solve large complex design challenges
• Detail-oriented as well as being a strategic and holistic thinker
• Expert and champion of user-centered design and good usability
• Proficiency or familiarity with Figma (or other modern web design and prototyping tools)
• Ability to work effectively on a distributed team
• A portfolio demonstrating process and final deliverables
• Excellence in any 5 of the following:

• UX Research & Discovery
• User Testing
• UI / Interaction Design
• Information Architecture
• Content Strategy
• Web Accessibility
• Component-based design systems
• Graphic Design
• Motion Design/Animation
• Data visualization
• Variable fonts and web typography

Bonus Points if you know about

• Google Analytics and tools like Hotjar or Crazy Egg
• Content audits, SEO, and microcopy
• Visual design and/or Illustration
• HTML5/CSS/JS
• Drupal and Wordpress (or other leading CMSs)
• Working with higher education, government, and/or nonprofit clients

Working With Us

People are at the \xe2\x99\xa5 of everything we do.

Kalamuna is driven by a civic spirit to help socially impactful institutions, nonprofits, and governments better communicate with constituents and do right by the people they serve. We bring digital communications to life for organizations as varied as Fair Trade USA, GreenBiz, the American Foundation for the Blind, the Environmental Defence Fund, the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Kalamuna\xe2\x80\x99s mission is to empower our clients with the research, strategy, design, and technology that will transform their organizations to better serve the needs of their audiences and communities. Kalamuna aligns itself in this manner to make each of our client\xe2\x80\x99s missions our mission. We seek to be impactful, not only for our clients and partners but for the social good of our communities.

We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to your excellence and continued development; we\xe2\x80\x99re in this together. Kalamuna offers many benefits, including paid holidays, PTO, paid bereavement leave, parental leave, health insurance, long and short-term disability, a continued learning & travel stipend, an equipment fund, and retirement funds with 3% match. We offer flexibility in work hours and accomodations. When pandemic-free, we organize company-wide gatherings like team building workshops, conferencing, and additional fun.

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for individuals with a broad range of interests and experiences to be their authentic selves. Your story, your passion is what interests us most. Meet some of our team at .

Commitment to Diversity

Kalamuna is committed to eradicating institutional discrimination and bias and to uplifting the lived experiences of all minorities.

As such, Kalamuna welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from people of color; women; LGBTQ2S+ people; immigrants or refugees; people who are differently-abled; and people from low- or moderate-income backgrounds. Kalamuna is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, height, weight, disability status, veteran status, military obligations, marital status and policy party affiliation, or on any other basis that complies with applicable laws.

If you\xe2\x80\x99re a recruiter or agency, please don\xe2\x80\x99t contact us. No exceptions.

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