Job Description
Summary
We seek a Staff Product Designer motivated by the opportunity to learn from an exceptional team and deliver delightful experiences for our customers—a ground floor opportunity in a design-driven company. Join a hyper-collaborative design team and get autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product. You will evolve our design process, own entire projects, and contribute to the development of a diverse team that champions our users’ voices and ships incredible experiences every day.
This is a role for an individual contributor with a genuine desire to learn from the best, champion our users’ voices, move fast, own decisions, and ship software every day. This individual will focus on our new travel product to create a delightful travel experience and automate tedious tasks for finance teams, managers, and employees.
Please note that this role will require you to be comfortable with working in-person at our NYC HQ (located near Madison Square Park) or SF Office at least 3 days/week.
What You’ll Do
- Lead design and user experience for significant parts of our core product; contribute to the design process from prioritization through launch
- Work directly with Product and Engineering leads to transform company strategy into prioritized initiatives in the roadmap and identify the right problems to solve
- Be comfortable with breaking down ambiguous problems, ruthlessly prioritizing the highest impact work, and aligning a cross-functional team around it
- Sweat the details, strive for simplicity, and tie together interconnected projects to make complex tasks approachable
- Be opinionated and leverage a direct line to our customers to get insights. Explore solutions, create prototypes, and dive into user feedback/data to identify points of friction and opportunities for improvement for every initiative
- Advocate for our users by continuously iterating on and evolving our core products and experiences. Identify areas of improvement and deliver value to customers every day
- Collaborate with the rest of the design team to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, brand guidelines, and internal design collaboration process
- Participate in day-to-day team rituals like design crit, story creation, weekly stand-ups, etc
- Help us hire more amazing people to grow the design team and bring diverse perspectives to our design process
- Contribute to developing our design internship program, where you will mentor the next generation of product designers
What You Need
- Minimum 8 years of tech/startup or digital product agency experience, or equivalent
- Demonstrated experience with end-to-end (hybrid UX and UI) product design
- Experience working with developers and PMs building and shipping applications or software
- Extraordinary visual design skills and strong understanding of UX principles
- Background in visual/interaction design, UX/UI, branding & identity, and typography
- Experience with low and high-fidelity prototyping
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Nice-to-Haves
- A strong understanding of software engineering workflows and principles is encouraged
- Kind, curious, generous, low ego, and a great sense of humor
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Product Design
- Team Collaboration
- UX/UI Design
- Visual Design