Product Designer

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It’s changing lives

Our mission is to unlock the potential of the world’s most underrepresented, underprivileged, and underrated developers.

Millions can’t find jobs because they were born “in the wrong country”, in the “wrong timezone” and with the “wrong English accent”.

We call this BS.

Help us create opportunities for anyone to grow by contributing on the world’s best codebases.

It’s working! Alumni got into Amazon, Facebook and Google. Star developers include Afghan women who lost their right to work with the Taliban. More success stories here.

The team is amazing

Here's a taste of some things the team has done:

?Several ex-founders - one sold his company to Carta

? National math olympiad winner and former Typescript team member

⛵️ Two sailing world champions and Ironman finishers

? Teammates who have already gone through the seed to unicorn journey

?A rocket scientist who launched a space mission

The team’s also diverse:

?9 nationalities for ~10 people

?‍? The engineering team happens to be 50% female

And more importantly, the number one thing newcomers notice is: people are truly kind. More on this when we meet!

Your Role

You will be working with our product manager and exceptional engineering team - early unicorn employees, Typescript and VSCode team engineer, Facebook Hackathon winner, Google Women TechMakers Scholar, etc - to build a category-defining product

Your missions

• Discover - together with the product manager, dive into engineering processes and tools, organize user interview sessions and perform user testing at the beginning and end of the design cycle

• Develop - continuously improve the product by designing mock-ups or prototypes (low, mid or high def) in Figma, and ensure proper implementation with the tech team. In other words, you own UX and UI end to end

• Identify - the best tools to maximize the team’s productivity - we have an unlimited budget to make the team productive

• Meet Silicon Valley’s best product designers to learn decades of insights in mere months

Helpful skills/experiences

• You have a successful track record of owning UI/UX design from discovery to production

• You’ve mastered modern design tools like Figma

• Bonus points if you have already worked in a software engineering team

You might be a great fit for this role if

• You have a technical background - computer science, engineering, etc

• You’re analytical - you’re great at identifying edge cases

What we offer

• Fully remote: work from wherever you want

• Regular on-sites to bond and explore the world (3-4 a year of 2-3 weeks each)

• Personalized growth plan & mentorship for every employee (we mean it) + access to the world’s most prestigious entrepreneurship community through the Y-Combinator ?

• A great range of perks and benefits

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity along with a chance to make a significant contribution to changing the lives of millions of engineers