Product Designer (Senior-Mid Level)

About Us

MetaMap is on a mission to make trusting strangers online effortless. We want to enable builders in fast-growing, underserved regions with the digital identity and reputation tools they need to provide better trust-based services to more people. Learn more about us and what we are building here.

About the Role

MetaMap is looking to hire a Product Designer (Senior-Mid Level) to join the MetaMap product and engineering teams. This role will require high-quality execution, determining strategy and executing on it, balancing goals and priorities, developing alignment with cross-functional partners, and creating a user-friendly and intuitive user experience architecture. Taking the lead in analyzing and implementing user feedback, as well as supporting teams that are responsible for developing the user interface.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the user experience of a product from conception to launch in partnership with product managers, engineers, and content strategists

• Take broad, conceptual ideas and turn them into useful and valuable products for our users

• Contribute to strategic decisions around the future direction of MetaMap products

• Design end-to-end flows and experiences that are simple and elegant for our supported platforms

• Define, craft, and evolve designs within visual systems and/or standards

• Proactively solicit and provide feedback from designers and a broader product team in order to continually raise our bar for quality, while also taking on a mentorship role.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in building and shipping applications or software at the level of whole features/products that encompass an end-to-end experience across a variety of platforms

• Interaction Design skills define how an experience should behave based on understanding people's needs, plus consideration of how this innovation will scale. Experience using prototyping skills to demonstrate how a particular flow or interaction will work

• Visual Design skills with proficiency in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography, and aesthetic sense and how these elements impact product function

• Experience leading product direction and strategic thinking while developing product goals, identifying opportunities, and making decisions based on the impact on people and the company

• Experience representing work to a broader product team and other leaders, clearly and succinctly articulating the goals and concepts

Nice to have experience for this role:

• Able to showcase your end-to-end design process across multiple projects, that include interaction and visual design artifacts, multiple iterations, and high-fidelity prototypes

• Experience connecting your work with other cross-product initiatives within the company to drive collaboration

• Examples of leadership in non-product dimensions that have made a team stronger and positively impacted the work environment

MetaMap is building tools that power a borderless world where everyone has equal access to opportunity based on their merits. As a proud equal opportunity employer, we live by these same values, celebrate diversity, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. We are also committed to a fair and inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. 

We evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or any other legally protected class. All employment decisions including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.