(Remote) Product Designer

Float is the world’s leading software for teams to plan their time. And behind it is a world-class team. From New York to the UK, Canada to South Africa—our Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams work asynchronously, helping brands such as Airbnb, Buzzfeed, and Ogilvy plan and manage their time better. Float is self-funded, profitable, and growing. If you’re a go-getter, align with our values, and are looking to join a team that’s passionate about helping others work and live more productively, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

Why We’re Hiring For This Role

Our Product Design Lead, Cam, explains the important role you will play as part of the Design team. Watch his video.

Our design team is levelling up, and we want great people to help us deliver on our ambitions and define how design works at Float. We’re looking for a Product Designer to focus on designing compelling solutions our customers love, working closely alongside Product and Engineering.

This role will be part of the Design team headed up by our Product Design Lead, Cam, and will help shape both the team, processes, and the role of design within the wider company in our journey from startup to scaleup.

You’ll be working asynchronously with a bright, dedicated team from across the globe, with a strong focus on taking complex problems and creating solutions that feel simple and intuitive for our customers.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

The Product Designer will be responsible for owning and driving assigned projects from the Product Manager’s specs (from early idea validation and alignment to engineering handoff and VQA) and evolving the Float design system and language across all touchpoints.

Early on, you’ll jump right into:

• Working with the Product team to design features from spec across the Float desktop and mobile apps
• Design testable prototypes for research and evaluation
• Utilize the Float design system to apply to product solutions
• Work with Engineering to handover design solutions, and follow along to launch

Once you are a bit more settled, we expect that you will jump into the following projects:

• Work with Product to ideate and influence the delivery feature spec process
• Maintain, update, and add to the Float Design System and documentation and processes
• Deliver polished design solutions to Engineering and see-through VQA process right through to successful project launch

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

We want you to love your work and believe that these skills will allow you to succeed in the role.

Applying these skills requires:

• Design experience with a solid balance of UX and visual design to work end-to-end from spec, to wireframes, to polished design
• Solid skills in prototyping and interaction design
• Experience translating and delivering feature specs in collaboration with PM and research
• Ability to communicate complex features into simple and engaging design executions
• Strong communication skills to be able to explain design rationale of solutions and tradeoffs effectively
• An intrinsic motivation to seek out feedback in order to learn new skills and continue advancing in the role

As a fully remote team, we’re looking for someone comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, which means you have previous remote experience and are comfortable using tools like Slack, Loom, and Asana to communicate as needed. Don’t worry—you will have significant deep work time since we have very few meetings (seriously, read here!).

Benefits

Why Join Us

We’re a global company with a diverse team of folks from all over the world who share a common belief in living our best work life. That includes a flexible asynchronous policy that allows you to work whenever you work best, minimal meetings, annual team meetups, and perks and benefits that support your personal health and well-being.

Our growing range of perks and benefits include:

• Home office expense budget
• Co-working expense budget
• Health & fitness budget
• Annual team meetup
• Care for your community donation or leave

We understand that you probably want to learn a bit more about us as well, so here are some resources to get a sense of who we are and how we work:

• Learn more about our team, mission and values
• Read more about our Best Work Life

The salary for this role is US $121,600. (Level 2). Here’s a blog post with more information on how we determine our salaries.

Note: Industry research shows that women and those in traditionally underrepresented groups generally don’t apply to jobs unless they check all the boxes for the role. If you feel strongly that you have what it takes for this role but don’t check 100% of the boxes—that’s okay—we encourage you to apply anyway and highlight what you can bring to the table.

Hiring Process For This Role

You’ll find a lot of useful information about our interview process and what it’s like to join our global team on the Float careers page. The hiring process for this role looks like this:

• Initial First Meeting: If your application is shortlisted, you will have a 15-minute meeting with Linda from People Ops. This meeting gives us an opportunity to learn more about your experience and also allows you to ask any questions you have about the role.
• Technical Interview: You’ll meet with Cam, our Design Lead, for a technical interview. This is generally a 45-minute interview that will take a deep dive into your design skills and experience.
• Team Interview: We take a very collaborative approach to hiring, so you’ll meet with Tony and Alan, both Product Managers at Float, for a 45-minute interview.
• Founder Interview: As the final step in the process, you’ll meet with Glenn, Float’s CEO, for a 30-minute interview.

Our hiring process takes an average of 25 days from the first interview to a job offer (based on 2021 data). Linda from People Ops will be in touch each step of the way to ensure that you are well informed and aware of the next step in the process.

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications, we can only contact candidates who have been shortlisted for the role. If you do not hear from us within 14 days of submitting your application, we encourage you to apply for another role in the future.