Smartcar is on a mission to make it easy for everyone to use the apps and services they love with their car. We build developer-friendly APIs which makes it easy for businesses to integrate their products with vehicles of any brand using a single integration.
Founded in 2015, Smartcar has raised $36M from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Energize Ventures. We are now the leading developer platform for mobility businesses across North America and Europe serving amazing customers including brands like British Petroleum (BP), Turo, NRG, and more.
Innovative mobility companies use our API platform to verify mileage, issue digital car keys, manage EV charging, monitor fleets, and much more.
As Smartcar’s Product Designer, you will have the opportunity to partner with our product and engineering teams to create innovative and consistent designs throughout Smartcar’s visual experiences. You will be the owner of product design at Smartcar.
This role is remote within California. We’d love for you to join us!
Key Responsibilities
- Own Smartcar’s product design process end-to-end
- Quickly produce concepts and prototypes before transforming into high fidelity detail
- Transform research and ideas into new product features that delight our customers
- Design the detailed interactions and workflows needed to bring new features to life
- Utilize data to help inform design decisions and test new designs.
- Balance short-term needs with evolving the vision and long term view
- Organize and maintain our database of digital assets and design mocks
- Work closely with our founders, product, and engineering teams to review product design and implement the design into code
- Build personal and organizational empathy towards our app developers and consumers
- Contribute to our company strategy and decision-making around our products
Who You Are
- You have 2-5 years of experience as a designer and have worked with in-house design teams
- Proficient building designs in Figma
- Experience designing cross-platform web-based interfaces
- Ability to design and ship products that have a technical user base
- Ability to quickly understand product requirements
- Self-starter with a strong opinion and intuition for design
- Demonstrated love for an iterative design process and for collaborating closely with engineers and marketers
- Excellent communication and writing skills
- Strong attention to detail
Compensation and Benefits Package
- Base salary determined by years of experience: $115,000 - $135,000
- Equity
- Remote work within California
- Health, Dental and Vision covered at 90% for all plans and 80% coverage for dependents, which amounts to approximately $11,000 a year
- 401K matching at 4%
- Unlimited PTO and 10 days of paid holidays
- Wellness stipend of $50 a month
- Cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month
- $300 yearly learning and development stipend
- $350 work-from-home stipend
- 8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave with a 1-week half day ramp back time and a 5 week Freshly subscription
- 10 days of paid bereavement leave
Sponsorship
- We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities or sponsorship transfers for this role
Smartcar is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to reach out, in confidence, to [email protected] with how we can help make your interview process as comfortable as possible and how we can provide reasonable accommodations.