Visual / Web Designer

Quick Summary
⏰ Duration: This is a hire for a project that is planned to last 1-3 months.

🕛 Hours: Flexible; open to full-time and part-time. 
🌎 Location: Fully remote
🇪🇺 Time Zone: Looking for people in Europe 

🇬🇧 Language: Native or Professional English is a must. 

🤠 3+ years of UI design experience (It’s a bonus if you already worked in an agency environment or remotely).

💸 Salary Range: B2B collaboration; 3.000,00 - 3.700,00 euros gross per month for full-time engagement and proportional if fewer hours.

About Afternow

We are partners in your digital journey. We bring together strategy, design, and technology to build systems that flex as your future unfolds.

Afternow creates the digital systems brilliant companies are built on. Strategy, identity, web and product design, and technology that scales. Every part of the process supports and informs the other, creating an environment that works today and adapts to wherever the business goes next.

We work primarily with ambitious, digitally focused organizations navigating change. From startups finding their footing, to scale-ups building momentum, to established enterprises reshaping their digital foundations. Our partnerships are built on clarity, craft, and care.

Since 2012, we've 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 - Join our team and discover why our people consistently rate us so highly.

The Role

As a UI Designer, you'll blend with Afternow's strong design culture. You'll join our talented UX Researchers, Brand Strategists, and Designers who are all passionate about solving sticky problems for our 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.

What You'll Do 

• 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 We're Looking For

The Right Mindset

• 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 scale and reuse

Essential Experience

• 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

Design Excellence

• 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.

Your Approach

• 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

Tools

• Expert in Figma (essential)
  Capable in Adobe Suite
  

Communication

• 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

Bonus Points

• Experience building interactive prototypes
• Animation skills 

What To Expect

We value commitment, autonomy, honesty, and willingness to learn. In the end, it’s all about building great experiences for people. We’re modest, simple, and easygoing. Our clients are not flashy — but they make the world go round. If you get excited by building tech that changes people’s lives, you’ll thrive on team Afternow.

• Shape the future with us - We believe in challenging assumptions and defying expectations. In our diverse and inclusive team, your unique perspective and skills are not only welcome but vital.
• Flexibility - We already operate in multiple time zones and have been doing it for years. We have 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. Just make sure the majority of your working hours fall within that time frame.
• Remote work - We like to think about ourselves as remote-natives. One of the perks of our remote team is that we genuinely trust you to get your job done. You can work from anywhere you see fit, as long as you have a decent internet connection and are available during our agency's working hours.
• Culture - We value collaboration, openness, a willingness to learn, and a curious nature. Our approach encourages mistakes as long as we are willing to learn from them, fostering a culture where growth comes from understanding and overcoming challenges. If you like to work in teams that value great work over loud voices, get in touch.

Added Benefits

Fully remote position with flexible working hours.

Hiring Process

1. Application review - We’ll review your experience, background, and overall fit for the role.
2. Video Call with HR - Initial conversation about fit, availability, and expectations
3. 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. This interview will focus primarily on cultural fit, ownership, communication, and the way you approach collaboration and problem-solving. We will ask you to prepare a showcase presentation of a project you have worked on.
4. Welcome to Afternow!

Afternow is an equal opportunity employer. We believe diverse teams build better products and create better experiences. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.