Auto UX/Product Designer

Mapbox is building a live location platform. Our maps represent the ever-evolving world, accessing, aggregating, and adapting anonymous data from millions of sensors and phones in real-time. Mapbox has the exciting opportunity to power devices and products across the next frontier in location-based data. Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, tracking your personal best mile on Strava, sending snaps on Snapchat, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps. We’re changing how people move by live-mapping the world.

What You’ll Do

As a product designer on Mapbox’s automotive team, you will work with our OEMs, Mapbox engineers, and design colleauges to define the next generation of driver experiences for a global audience.

• Research infotainment and navigation trends and best practices
• Propose and promote next generation features for Mapbox products and services
• Generate exploratory solutions to current and future driver needs
• Evangelize the user experience and design process within Mapbox
• Deliver documentation and design assets to Mapbox engineers
• Help Mapbox designers do their best work through feedback and critique
• Grow your own skill sets as a designer and design leader

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• You are an expert in the art and science of user interface design techniques
• You understand how to design for embedded software in automotive contexts
• You bring your personal creative inspirations to the work your create
• You understand and employ human-centered design processes
• You proactively seek feedback throughout the design process
• You incorporate user research techniques throughout the development of your work
• You commit to broad exploration before deciding on a final direction
• You revisit underlying design principles based on new information
• You deliver refined user interface layouts rooted in systems design principles
• You understand design development, and plan for engineering needs
• You work with and push engineering teams to ensure that output matches design intent

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants, which is linked here.  Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application. 

Mapbox is an EEO Employer - Minority/Female/Veteran/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

#LI_REMOTE