Mint is a creative digital studio. We collaborate with companies big and small to design and build digital products. We also invent our own businesses and run them within Mint. We delivered over a million magnets with StickyGram, launched Foldable.Me in six months and we're getting ready to ship Projecteo.

We are now looking for an experienced interaction designer to help us with building up our design team in New York. This will be a big undertaking but we see it as an excellent opportunity for someone with great leadership skills and the motivation to build out a well rounded design team from the bottom up. You will be given the right balance of freedom as well as the support and knowledge from our London studio, to help you along the way.

Our designers love the web and believe in making it beautiful for all to use. An appreciation for visual aesthetic comes as standard, along with a deep understanding in what makes users click, tap, swipe and scroll; ultimately the user experience that makes our products delightful to use again and again.

In addition to the basics, the right candidate for this position will have demonstrable experience of dealing directly with their clients to deliver digital products and user experience from start to finish. They will be a natural product thinker who has refined their production skills - sketching and high fidelity wireframing - and can work collaboratively with disciplines of strategy, design and development.

We work closely with each other to improve our work and make it the best it can be. Whilst you need to be comfortable challenging the opinions of your colleagues, you can't be precious about your own - we are always striving to improve and learn from everything we do. We believe this makes Mint one of the best companies out there to grow as a designer.

We're a small team doing big things. You will have every chance to work closely with others across all areas of Mint to help make a difference and shape our output. Creative work always involves collaboration and how we gel together as a team is a key consideration. It's important that you fit in - we're a big family here and that’s the way we want it to stay. You'll get involved in our meetups, conferences and hot-pot outings as well as being supported to organise your own contributing events for the New York studio. We hope to work with the right person for years to come.

Summary

Must haves:

• Client facing experience in a project lead capacity
• Cross discipline team working experience
• Evidence of strategic product thinking
• A portfolio full of digital products

Nice to haves:

• An understanding of and skills in code
• Skills in art direction of design work
• Experience in Agile development / Lean methodologies

We are looking for a tester to join our Quality Assurance team in London. Together with our design and development teams, you will help to create innovative and interactive social websites and apps. In particular, you will be responsible for ensuring our websites work efficiently, look great and provide a friendly user experience.

As a tester, you will play a key part in the development of all our projects, such as our customisable paper-craft website Foldable.Me, the upcoming Projecteo and our wide-ranging client work.

The position will see you working with project managers and developers to produce manual and automated test cases and plans, running these cases and generally being responsible for ensuring our work performs well & looks great. You must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and be happy to deal with changing requirements.

Prior testing experience is a bonus, not a necessity, but applicants must be logical and understand how things can break on the web across both desktop and mobile.

What we are looking for:

• A great eye for detail
• Strong editorial skills
• Understanding of what makes a website successful
• Self-motivation to meet tight deadlines and work independently
• Experience with web usability
• Persistence and patience
• Basic understanding of HTML

Bonus:

• Experience working in an agile team
• Ability to write automated tests
• Passing knowledge of ruby or another scripting language

(Note none of these are required, as long as you are happy and interested to learn!).

Do you love writing software? Do you learn new languages and work on side projects in your spare time? We should talk.

At Mint Digital we are obsessed with building great software and learning as much as we can about the craft while we do.

Our core beliefs:

Creating software should be a fun process. We’ve been working in Rails for years, and it’s been a blast. Every year, we head off somewhere remote, split into teams and compete for a week in building something cool. We use whatever tools will help us solve the problem at hand in the best possible way. Our current toolset includes: Ruby, Rails, HTML5, JS, CoffeeScript, PostGres, MySQL, Chef, Redis, Resque, Ubuntu, nginx, git and many more.

But at the same time it’s serious business. Although we’re having fun, we take our responsibilities to our customers and to the products we create for them very seriously. This is true both collectively, and individually.

A software developer must constantly be learning. If you’re still doing things the same way you did two years ago, or even last year, then you’re in danger of letting the industry pass you by. All of our staff are sent to industry conferences, and provided with training on a regular basis. Although we’re known primarily as a Ruby / Rails shop, we’re constantly playing with new tools (Scala, Erlang, Node, Django and Objective-C have been recent obsessions for various Mint devs).

If you are excited by the sound of this opportunity, we'd love to talk. We are interested in both junior & senior applicants with skills in either front or back end (or both!) and value highly people with an aptitude and desire to learn. If you think you’d fit in here, please drop us a line with your CV and a short personal email explaining why you think we’d be good for each other. We look forward to speaking with you.