Job Description
At arenaflex, we're dedicated to revolutionizing the cannabis industry with innovative solutions that prioritize user experience and accessibility. Our internal web app, Product Professor, has been a game-changer for budtenders, but we're now seeking a talented Senior UI/UX Designer to take it to the next level. As a UI/UX expert, you'll be responsible for refining the app's visual language, interaction design, and overall user experience to create a seamless and engaging journey for our users. **About arenaflex** arenaflex is a forward-thinking company that's passionate about harnessing the power of technology to transform the cannabis industry. Our mission is to provide cutting-edge solutions that empower budtenders, retailers, and consumers alike. With a focus on innovation, accessibility, and user-centered design, we're committed to setting a new standard for cannabis technology. **The Opportunity** We're looking for a seasoned UI/UX Designer to join our team and bring their expertise to our chat-based cannabis product info app. As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you'll be responsible for: * Conducting a heuristic audit and providing direction on hierarchy, spacing, contrast, and usability issues * Refining the visual language, including type scale, color, spacing, elevation, and state styles * Polishing the user interface for three critical screens: landing/query, loading, and chat interface * Designing a cohesive and maintainable component library in Figma * Ensuring accessibility, including AA contrast, focus states, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader labels * Creating a microcopy guide for system messages, loading, errors, and disclaimers * Collaborating with our design and engineering teams to ensure a smooth dev handoff **Scope of Work** As a UI/UX Designer, your scope of work will be focused on the following areas: * **Heuristic Audit and Direction**: Identify hierarchy, spacing, contrast, and usability issues and propose quick wins and priorities. * **Visual Language**: Refine type scale, color (light/dark), spacing, elevation, and state styles to create a modern, calm, and expert feel. * **Screen Polish**: Enhance the user interface for the landing, loading, and chat screens, including input prominence, helper text, voice affordance, CTA hierarchy, brand lockup, and responsive behavior. * **Microcopy**: Create clear, compliant, and human-toned microcopy for system messages, loading, errors, and disclaimers. * **Interaction and Motion**: Design tasteful transitions for send/receive, loading, and toasts, and respect reduced-motion settings. * **Design System**: Develop a comprehensive design system in Figma, including buttons, inputs, cards, chips, tabs, toasts, icons, and variants. * **Accessibility**: Ensure AA contrast, focus states, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader labels. **Deliverables** As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you'll be responsible for delivering the following: * A short UI/UX audit with prioritized recommendations * Hi-fi mockups and a clickable Figma prototype for the three screens (light and dark) * A component library with states/variants and a token sheet (color, type, spacing, radii, shadows, motion) * Motion specs (Figma animations or short GIF/Lottie references) * A microcopy guide for system messages, loading, errors, and disclaimers * Dev handoff: organized Figma, annotations/redlines, and a brief Loom walkthrough **What We'll Provide** As a UI/UX Designer at arenaflex, you'll have access to: * Current screens and flows (landing, loading, chat) and product content * Brand constraints (tone: calm, knowledgeable, trustworthy), logo, initial palette * Design/engineering point of contact for quick feedback cycles * Frontend context: Next.js + Tailwind via bolt.new (for token parity in Figma) **Must-Haves** To be successful in this role, you'll need: * A portfolio of shipped web apps (ideally chat/knowledge tools) showing polish and systems thinking * Expert Figma skills (autolayout, variants, component properties, prototyping) * Strong interaction/motion sensibility and accessibility fundamentals * Comfortable designing for Tailwind/design-token workflows **Nice-to-Haves** While not required, experience in regulated or retail environments, familiarity with cannabis retail workflows, light front-end literacy, iconography/illustration, Lottie/After Effects, and a passion for cannabis technology would be a plus. **Engagement** We're looking for a collaborative and async-friendly designer who can work independently and as part of a team. Our engagement process will include: * A 1-2 week timeline * A budget of $700 * Async collaboration with weekly design reviews and quick Looms for iteration **How to Apply** If you're a seasoned UI/UX Designer with a passion for cannabis technology and user-centered design, we want to hear from you! Please submit your proposal with the following: * A brief introduction and a link to your portfolio * 2-3 relevant web-app case studies (before→after preferred) * A one-paragraph week-one plan for our three screens * A link/GIF to a micro-interaction you designed that improved clarity **Success Looks Like** We're looking for a UI/UX Designer who can deliver: * Cleaner hierarchy and faster comprehension on all three screens * A chat interface that feels confident and helpful with clear actions and friendly system states * A cohesive visual/interaction language (light and dark) and a maintainable component library * A smooth dev handoff with minimal ambiguity If you're ready to join our team and elevate arenaflex's chat-based cannabis product info app, apply now! Apply for this job