As someone who lives in the Midwest there are only a handful of companies that hire UX designers at my level so I was wondering what companies people would recommend talking to in the future about a well paying remote opportunities. I know if Invision and Constant Contact but that's about it. Every other company I've talked to recently has pulled their designers in (PayPal, eBay, and more) to one or several locations.
I totally agree that being with your dev teams and product owner and being able to collaborate and have those hallway chats is ideal. That said both companies I've worked for have been remote friendly with my most recent one even more so. The team I work with is incredibly distributed so it doesn't matter if I was in my local office or not. My personal experience with being remote is mixed. I feel I'm more productive in the office but for other reasons I could possibly become remote permanently and if that happens I want to know what my options are with remote friendly companies beyond my own exist if for whatever reason things don't work out down the road or seek a change for other reasons.
I think you’re probably looking at any number of consultancy-type places, then. Those don’t necessarily pay as well as the bigger tech companies, but who cares? You can do lots of incentive work. Originate, Pivotal, probably ThoughtWorks, Asynchrony, are all worth talking to.
I've talked to a couple consultancy places around here in the past and they offer pretty competitive comp but not sure that world interests me much. Seems like it's constant chaos with the feast or famine of contracts. Granted good places always have work but seems like a stressful environment. I'm not totally opposed just not my first choice. But good suggestion nonetheless :)
GitHub, InVision, Trello, GitLab, Basecamp, Buffer, Zapier, Visible, AHA!, Hatch, Formstack, Moment, Automatic, Dribbble, and more are all offering remote UX positions.
Great list vkem. Anyone else got anything for this old post? Moving from NYC to Michigan for family reasons and will become remote. This same thought crossed my mind.
Tech Industry
Yesterday
2221
So hard being a women in tech industry
India
Yesterday
1713
Please vote sensibly 🙏
Tech Industry
Yesterday
788
Chances of meta clearing E5 with screwing up one coding one round and acing all other
Tech Industry
Yesterday
8685
Finally something to put ChatGPT a run for its money?
2024 Tax
Yesterday
4045
Biden’s new tax proposal is wild
UX is tough to pull off well remotely, but some figure it can still be done. I sit with a product manager, the full dev team, and a couple analytics people when in the midst of building product. Then I’m in frequent conversation with other PMs I collaborate with. Being in the same vicinity as everyone else helps a lot. There’s a huge conversational component to effectively designing an experience, and working remotely doesn’t always suffice. At least not on some projects, for others I guess it’s possible though I still don’t prefer it. I relocated from the Midwest. The firm I worked for tried doing a lot of remote stuff, with people who were experienced with it, and it got...frustrating. What’s your experience with working remotely been?