Sr. Product Designer

Who is Bird

Bird is on a mission to bring environmentally friendly transportation to everyone. Our products, services, and people share one common goal: to make cities more livable by reducing gas-powered car usage, lowering carbon emissions, and improving the safety of all road users.

We are relentless in our pursuit of better—for our riders, for our partners, for our employees, and for future generations. Our award winning electric vehicles help millions of riders take carbon-free trips in more than 300 cities globally. And our teams push boundaries and challenge the status quo in pursuit of a brighter future.

Job Summary

We are actively seeking a detail-oriented and highly driven Senior Product Designer to join us in our mission to build best-in-class experiences for our users. The ideal individual for this position is someone who knows how to push product from the ground up and can work in a hands-on and collaborative way.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and ship user-friendly, high-quality, product designs from discovery to launch
• Design flows and interactions that are intuitively simple
• Build prototypes to communicate design ideas to users and internal stakeholders
• Run user testing sessions on prototypes to help evaluate and validate your hypothesis
• Evolve and maintain our design system
• Collaborate with product, data and engineering to ensure design intent is realized across apps, web, and more
• Discover, stay abreast, and recommend effective design tools for collaborative work

Requirements

• 5+ years of UI/UX product design experience creating mobile apps and web products at either a progressive, fast-growing, consumer tech start-up or at a well-established organization
• Outstanding portfolio that showcases creative and systematic design thinking and execution.
• Experience working on both consumer experience and tools is desired
• Experience doing in-person user research and knowing how to apply the findings in your design thinking effectively
• Experience working with engineers and delivering your work in a clear way
• Confident in bringing multiple stakeholders to the table to understand and solve problems
• Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and drive projects
• Exceptional communication and people skills

• Strong sense of urgency and accountability.
• Humble, self-starting, team player who is willing to fail and learn
• High level competence in industry tools such as Figma, Sketch, Jira, prototyping tools such as Principle, InVision, etc.
• Familiarity with back-end and front-end development technologies

Culture at Bird

We're an ambitious, smart and open-minded team that is passionate about our mission. Each day is unlike the last, as we’re constantly moving forward, challenging each other, and working together to create the future of micro-mobility.

Perks up

We want people to succeed at Bird, so we give our teams plenty of time off to relax and recharge. We also offer a generous employer-paid healthcare package, childcare support, pre-tax spending accounts, mental health resources, a work from home stipend, a wellness stipend, and a whole host of other out of the box benefits that meet you where you are.

Bird is the world

Bird stands for a culture of inclusion. We celebrate different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives —encouraging everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. We have a diverse environment that empowers our team to feel comfortable when they voice their opinions. For these reasons and more Bird is a proud equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome everyone regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetics, and we are dedicated to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.

Sound like a place you’d like to work? Sweet. Let’s chat.