Location: Redwood City, CA (you can work from home 5 days every 2 weeks)
The company's product is in the realms of health, mobile, AI, augmented reality, computer vision, HR benefits, and retail. It is a mission-driven company.
The company was named one of Fast Company's most innovative companies under 50 employees. Its founder has been named to Forbes 30 under 30.
The company has raised series B funding and thousands of customers including many Fortune 500 companies. It has about 50 employees, 13 engineers, and 2 Product Designers, and is rapidly growing.
The company will pay a salary up to $180k plus annual performance bonuses (up to15% of salary) and equity which could be lucrative.
Job Responsibilities:
- Conducting user research with existing customers, research panels, and industry experts to challenge design decisions and identify opportunity areas for future products.
- Synthesizing user and business needs to define the scope and requirements for releases.
- Using wireframes, sketches, journey maps, and other tools to create user experiences that simplify complex problems.
- Drafting high-fidelity, build-ready prototypes for multiple user interfaces (Web, iOS, Android) utilizing the best practices in responsive design.
- Conducting usability testing to collect qualitative and quantitative feedback that identifies any friction in current products.
- Facilitating meetings and brainstorming sessions that champion design methodologies.
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of professional experience in UX/product design, designing consumer-facing products.
- A portfolio demonstrating human-centered design for products that shipped.
- Demonstrated creative problem-solving abilities and a portfolio showcasing high-impact design projects.
- Proven ability to navigate cross-functional work and lead design projects with minimal oversight.
- Skilled with user experience, qualitative user research, and quantitative user research, and user interfaces.
- Technical Fluency
- Growth Mindset
- Humility
- Ability to manage ambiguity.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in B2B design.
- Background from top tier startups, top design firms, or top tech companies.
- Degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
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