Are you a detail-oriented Sr. UI Designer who can produce pixel-perfect designs, loves to communicate with your teammates, and is accountable for your work on a daily basis?  If so, we are looking for you to join and add to our team! As our Sr. UI Designer, you will work closely with our Product, Tech and eCommerce teams to ensure our websites do an outstanding job of communicating our brands and products to our shoppers. You will get the chance to understand our customer and the business, collaborating with teammates and working independently to own and deliver UI priorities and projects!

This full-time position reports to the Senior Interactive Art Director and is expected to work in a hybrid model, which currently includes Tuesday and Wednesday in-office.

What you’ll do:

• Understand our brand, products and users to produce high quality designs in accordance with brand guidelines
• Collaborate with user experience designers to turn wireframes and concepts into compelling, beautifully-crafted experiences
• Design icons and graphic assets for use across our website, collaborating with Creative to ensure consistency across all channels
• Provide final UI designs with specifications for developers
• Follow and update our style guides and pattern libraries, and ensure consistent implementation
• Understand customer goals, business requirements and technical constraints to work within project parameters
• Effectively brainstorm, sketch and mock up multiple visual ideas to satisfy design requirements
• Manage multiple priorities/projects under tight deadlines, working independently and/or with the design team
• Be able to articulate design decisions

What you bring to the table:

**Please submit an online portfolio with your application that reflects your experience, specifying which work was created 100% by you vs. by a team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Web/Graphic Design, or have equivalent work experience
• 5+ years’ of relevant experience in user interface, product design, web design, or design related field.
• An online portfolio (please specify which work was created 100% by you vs. by a team)
• Passion for design (typography, color and grid layouts)
• Knowledge of mobile design standards and familiarity with responsive design best practices
• User-centered approach to design
• Proficient in Figma, Sketch, Photoshop and Illustrator with the ability to produce organized files with sensible layer structures and naming
• Competency with HTML and CSS
• Impeccable eye for detail and consistency
• Ability to respond effectively and appropriately to creative feedback and constructive criticism
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Bonus (but not required) if you have:

• Experience creating prototypes
• Experience in illustration
• Knowledge of photo editing
• Familiarity with Jira, Microsoft Office suite, InDesign, Trello and Google Web Designer

About Us: Balsam Brands is a global, eCommerce retailer with roots in holiday and home décor. We strive for excellence in everything we do and present a unique opportunity for those seeking to have a meaningful impact in a people-first company that values relationship building, authenticity, and doing the right thing. We have steadily growing teams in Boise, the Bay Area, Dublin, and the Philippines.

The company's mission is to create joy together. We empower our team and partners to love what they do, provide products and experiences that inspire meaningful moments with family and friends, and give back to our families and communities in impactful ways. When you join Balsam Brands, you'll find a culture of caring people doing challenging work and building a welcoming workplace.

• Check out our flagship brand, Balsam Hill: www.balsamhill.com
• Balsam Brands in Forbes: https://bit.ly/balsambrandsforbes2023

• Balsam Brands on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/balsam-brands/
• Glassdoor: https://bit.ly/balsambrands-glassdoor

At Balsam Brands, we strive to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. For permanent, full-time team members, our current package includes:

• Competitive compensation, including a cash-based incentive plan; salary is reviewed yearly and may be adjusted as part of the normal compensation review process
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, with 100% of monthly premiums covered for team members, and 85%+ employer-paid premiums for other coverage tiers that include dependents
• Up to $2,000 annual funding toward HSA accounts
• Medical, transit, dependent care FSA
• Infertility coverage offered on all medical plans
• Generous parental leave program and flexible return options
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• Company-paid short and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar company match up to $4,000 per calendar year
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other mental health and wellness perks
• Paid holidays, annual shutdown week, PTO, and volunteer time-off (VTO) packages
• Paid 5-week sabbatical leave after 10 years of employment
• Annual continuous learning benefit up to $1,000 per person, per fiscal year
• Up to $300 flexible reimbursement to support setup of new team member's work-from-home environment
• Generous team member merchandise discount
• Valuable extras: identity theft protection, subsidized parking, monthly wellness, pet insurance, accident & critical illness insurance

At Balsam Brands, we strive to build a diverse, equitable, and inclusive team to fulfill our purpose to create joy together. Balsam Brands is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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