(new york city)

About foursquare:

We build products at the intersection of mobile, local and social. Our goal? to make the real world easier to use.We're a small but highly ambitious technology company, and we’re executing on an overflowing product roadmap faster than any startup out there. Foursquare launched in 2009, grew 3400% in 2010, passed a billion check-ins in 2011, and we're just getting started. We're right in the center of a huge opportunity in a quickly-evolving market, and need your smarts to create the best service possible.

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