About the Role
- This is a hire for a project that is planned to last 1-3 months.
- Hours are flexible; open to full-time and part-time.
- Fully remote, looking for people in Europe time zones.
- Native or Professional English is a must.
- As a UI Designer, you'll blend with Afternow's strong design culture, joining UX Researchers, Brand Strategists, and Designers to solve problems for clients.
- You'll design digital experiences across all of our clients' marketing website touchpoints, working within lightweight, scalable Design Systems and bringing a strong eye for visual craft.
- This is a role for someone who brings visual quality and rigor to complex marketing websites and can carry a design from concept through to developer hand-off.
- We value commitment, autonomy, honesty, and willingness to learn.
- We operate with standard 40-hour work weeks.
- While our agency working hours are from 9 am to 6 pm CET, you’ll have the freedom to work flexible hours and maintain a healthy work-life balance, provided the majority of your working hours fall within that time frame.
- As a remote-native team, we trust you to get your job done; you can work from anywhere as long as you have a decent internet connection and are available during our agency's working hours.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design Digital Experiences - Define design languages, visual strategies, interfaces and visual assets across marketing websites and landers — executing every visual stage from concept to final developer hand-off.
- Work Within Design Systems - Build scalable design systems with proper file structure, naming conventions, and workflow, creating the wireframes, user flows, process flows, and site maps that communicate your ideas clearly.
- Provide Strong Visual Design - Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user-friendliness to every touchpoint.
- Research and Validate - Use research, data, and insights to design and deploy experiences that are intuitive and easy to use, while establishing design guidelines, best practices, and standards.
- Present and Communicate - Present and defend designs and key milestone deliverables to colleagues, clients, and executive-level stakeholders.
What You'll Bring
Open and determined: You're open-minded, focused, a good listener, and you aren't afraid to make mistakes.
Agency-aware: You understand a standard agency workflow.
Human-centric: You understand user and client needs and design with accessibility, scalability, platforms, and storytelling in mind.
Systemic thinker: You understand the importance of systemic design and build solutions the whole team can and reuse.
At least 3 years of experience as a designer.
Agency, tech company, or freelance background.
Capable of building high-definition, scalable UI on both desktop and mobile.
Portfolio demonstrating polished UI work.
Strong UI craft — high-fidelity interface design across desktop and mobile.
Systemic design built on components, typography, colors and grids.
Ability to translate research and user needs into practical interface solutions.
Thinking in motion from the foundation of your workflow.
Ability to turn complex technical concepts and interfaces into visually appealing assets like product visuals and diagrams.
Accountable: You have a strong sense of commitment, accountability, and ownership.
Independent: You solve problems by taking matters into your own hands — you're a doer.
Collaborative: You bring people along and build buy-in around your proposed solutions.
Expert in Figma (essential).
Capable in Adobe Suite.
Fluent English (written and verbal) to engage international team members and clients.
Confident presenting research findings and design concepts in client meetings.
Able to get people bought in around your solutions.
Nice to Have
Experience working in an agency environment or remotely.
Experience building interactive prototypes.
Animation skills.
Compensation & Benefits
- B2B collaboration; 3.000,00 - 3.700,00 euros gross per month for full-time engagement and proportional if fewer hours.
- Fully remote position with flexible working hours.
Interview Process
- Application review - We’ll review your experience, background, and overall fit for the role.
- Video Call with HR - Initial conversation about fit, availability, and expectations.
- Second interview with Leadership - If there is a strong match after the first conversation, we’ll invite you to a second interview with the Leadership team, focusing primarily on cultural fit, ownership, communication, and the way you approach collaboration and problem-solving; includes a requirement to prepare a showcase presentation of a project you have worked on.
About Afternow
- Partners in your digital journey, bringing together strategy, design, and technology to build systems that flex as your future unfolds.
- Afternow creates digital systems including strategy, identity, web and product design, and technology that scales.
- We work primarily with ambitious, digitally focused organizations ranging from startups to scale-ups to established enterprises.
- Since 2012, grown from our roots on Island Krk, Croatia, to a fully remote team of more than thirty talented people working across the globe.
- We've partnered with companies including AWS, ThoughtSpot, Progressive, Descartes, ShipBob, Quillbot, Teachable, Crisp, CloudZero, Kinetik, and many more.
- 4.6 Glassdoor Rating.