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UX Designer

TableCheck Chuo-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Fully remote (worldwide)
  • 🧪 Minimum years of experience unspecified
  • 💬 No Japanese required
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan

About TableCheck

TableCheck Chuo-ku, Tokyo

We help diners make restaurant reservations, and we help merchants manage table inventory, enrich dining experiences, and visualize multi-property analytics to gain insights into restaurant performance.

Key benefits

  • Scalable and maintainable
  • Multicultural and full of camaraderie
  • See your work in the wild

About the position

About The Team

At TableCheck we have a design team with blended skillsets who work with the leadership team to create vision and drive the growth of our business internationally. The design team takes full ownership of both diner and merchant user experience journeys. Not only does this lead to fast-paced development and pivots, it facilitates a close-knit team that nurtures these user experiences.

About the Role



The UX designer’s mission is to design the best restaurant reservation experience in the world. Our exciting product roadmap includes continuous innovation of our contactless payment platform, online search portal, restaurant analytics, and many third-party integrations. The breadth of UX design work at TableCheck will be both a challenge and a rewarding way to learn. If you genuinely love what you do, are driven and passionate, and like a fast-paced startup environment, then we want to hear from you.


What You’ll Be Doing

  • Defining problems and opportunities with the diner and the merchant UX
  • Researching the latest trends in UI/UX and how these can be applied to our business
  • Designing with a user-centric approach combining a deep understanding of human behaviour and technology
  • Designing experiences journeys, drawing journey maps, creating personas and services blueprint
  • Wire-framing information architectures, validating across iOS, Android, and web platforms
  • Prototyping high-fidelity designs
  • Improving and maintaining TableCheck’s design components system
  • Participating in ongoing design reviews and iterations during the sprints
  • Reviewing the performance of the release and iterating designs to improve usability and impact
  • Running user testing workshops and guerrilla testing if needed

What You’ll Need

  • 5+ years of experience in designing world-class complex digital solutions, either from agency or in-house experience
  • A portfolio with global design work examples
  • Ability to think at a high level about product strategy 
  • Ability to clearly articulate design thinking and context
  • Ability to understand how technical constraints impact design decisions
  • Strong sense in typography, grids, and interaction / motion
  • Passion for solving problems and being challenged
  • Constantly learning. You will always be growing - both personally and with the team

Nice to Have

  • Japanese speaking / reading 
  • Some experience in programming and ability to code simple prototypes

We are able to hire remotely as long as the team works on the JST time zone. Please note that the benefits will vary for each country.

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