Senior Product Designer

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Our Mission

Our mission is to help unleash the coding potential of the world’s most underrepresented, underprivileged, and underrated developers to work on the most advanced codebases and accelerate engineers everywhere.

The number one bottleneck software companies face today is the lack of senior engineers. Yet, there are millions of talented junior developers all around the world who can’t grow simply because of their circumstances. Wrong country of birth, wrong timezone, wrong language (we call all this BS).

Your work will help accelerate their careers by helping them grow faster through access to work above their level, getting paid to learn and being able to do it from anywhere. If you are as passionate as we are about this, join us!

Learn about the real and powerful impact we have on our community of GitStars here

About the 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 responsibilities and what you will do

• 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

Some skills or experiences which would set you up for success

• 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

Our business

We are a hyper scaling startup with 15% Month-on-Month growth for the past 6 months despite being in stealth mode. Now that we have closed our seed round with some amazing investors, we are now going to accelerate our growth and most aspects of our business are looking at 10-100x growth in the next 1-2 years.

Our Team

Here's a taste of some amazing things our team has done and achieved

?Several ex-founders of startups

? National math olympiad winner and former member of the Microsoft Typescript team

⛵️ Sailing world champion and Ironman

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

? Google Women TechMakers Scholar

? Organizer of 500+ rave parties (pre-Covid ? )

?An actual rocket scientist!

? Earned a masters by utilising ML to prolong life of Cystic Fibrosis patients

Our engineering team is 50% female and we already have over 9 different nationalities in our company.

We also have some pretty phenomenal advisors and investors. Including 2 CTOs of the 10 highest valued companies, several CEOs and CTOs from the top 10 highest-valued startups worldwide, and YC, the world’s most prestigious accelerator.

What we offer

• We are a fully remote company so you decide where you want to work

• We host regular off-sites to bond and explore the world (3-4 a year of 2-3 weeks each)

• Personalized growth plan & mentorship for every employee + 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 developers