Senior 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

• Lead the product design process from discovery to production. You will own the entire UI/UX implementation end-to-end and establish a design system for a unified and cohesive product

• Partner with our CEO, Revenue Team, and Engineers to define effective solutions to design problems. You are very comfortable rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty in the process

• Build user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to help validate product hypotheses to help guide engineering and product development.

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

• Grow a world class product team. You will be our first dedicated product hire. As we scale, you will play a leading role in our product team as it expands

Helpful skills/experiences

• You have 4+ years of professional experience as a designer in a startup environment, preferably developer tools/ SaaS products. In that time, you've shown a successful track record of owning UI/UX design from discovery to production

• You are strong designer. You are someone who strives to make visual communication the best it can be and you have a portfolio demonstrating an ability to create high quality go-to-market materials

• You are proactive in identifying ways to improve the product, design and processes of what you do

• You are an expert in modern design and tools to think, from Figma/Sketch to Notion/Roam to Miro.

• You've worked in cross-functional teams before, collaborating with other designers, developers, marketeers, customer support and other go-to-market folks.

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

• A masted juggler - between user dreams and engineering reality, between the creative process and getting to a direct experience asap, between obtaining consensus and ruthless execution. You are great pragmatist and balance speed and quality

• Your toes twinkle - You can deliver quickly even in situations where there is little time for preparation

• You really care about the problem we are trying to solve and narrowing the gap in global inequality of opportunity

• You are excited to meet Silicon Valley’s best product designers to learn decades of insights in mere months

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