Armory Hiring for UI Designer-(Remote Canada) at Vancouver, BC Full Time

You Will…

Engage directly and frequently with Armory customers to help realize the voice of the customer into engaging, pleasant, understandable, and easy-to-use experiences

Craft engaging and clear audience-specific experiences and UI’s for existing and future products, features and functionality.

Participate and lead design sprints and brainstorming sessions to foster brilliant ideation.

Collaborate across departments to grow Armory’s design system, highlighting the Armory personality and identity, and providing reusable components for rapid development and experimentation

Work with both technical and non-technical teams to drive efficient delivery

Focus on analytical iteration development in both a technical and business sense

Manage communication with various stakeholders, both internal and external, to validate designs and user journeys

Publish blogs about your work at Armory

Take an active role in defining the future of the Armory platform and growth engineering culture

You Have…

5+ years professional experience

3+ years of experience in UI development, preferably with Developer and/or DevOps tooling

Outstanding visual, written and verbal communications skills to explain and translate complex technical concepts into simple and intuitive user interfaces

Experience working with design software, including but not limited to Figma or Adobe XD

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, graphic or web design, or related area

A portfolio and proven track record of creating high-quality user interfaces and designs

Proven experience being self-directed and working with minimal supervision

Use data to measure results, inform decision making and drive strategy development

The ability to iterate quickly and explain complex US concepts into simple and initiative user interfaces in order to gather feedback

Experience with agile development and building a SaaS platform

Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams to convey the ‘How’

Strong analytical abilities and a data-driven product decision-making mindset

Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native application development

Ability to make decisions and adapt quickly to a rapidly changing business

Ability to innovate and iterate growth processes and designs

A high degree of user empathy and curiosity

Able to manage multiple projects

Experience working globally distributed teams

Experience working in a fast-paced start-up environment

The ability to work autonomously and within a team

Bonus points for…

Reliability

Practical knowledge of deployment strategies (canary, blue/green, rolling, progressive)

Previous experience with Chaos experimentation

Previous experience with incident management and response automation

Analytics

Strong analytical skills, including an ability to translate business needs back to intuitive user interfaces

Previous experience with data systems and machine learning models

Security & Compliance

Strong understanding of operational security, auth/z and automated security testing

Understanding of compliance controls, audit processes and policy

Infrastructure

Practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration technology (Docker, Kubernetes)

Practical understanding of what it takes to operate applications at scale

Strong understanding of configuration management tools and infrastructure automation

General understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)

Why join Armory?

Armory is a Series C startup backed by B-Capital, Insight, Crosslink Capital, Y Combinator (W17), Bain Capital, and Javelin Venture Partners based in San Mateo, CA. With Armory & Spinnaker developers are empowered to deploy their code with increased safety, resilience, velocity, and compliance, to any production target on prem or in the cloud.

Spinnaker is the world’s most powerful continuous delivery platform, developed and open sourced by Netflix and Google, and battle-tested in production by hundreds of the world’s leading enterprises. Spinnaker is an open source platform with a modern, developer-friendly view of software delivery. It is target agnostic, so teams can instantly deploy their code at scale to any and all clouds using a single, golden path to production.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at peopleops@armory.io.

Armory is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.