Lead Product Designer

A Cloud Guru
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 6/11/2020 CLOSED ON 8/11/2020

Job Posting for Lead Product Designer at A Cloud Guru

The Lead Product Designer

COMMUNICATE | DESIGN | MENTOR

As a Lead Product Designer at A Cloud Guru, you will be a steward for our expanding product team from start to finish by understanding our audience, identifying opportunities, designing solutions, and testing solutions to validate your hypothesis. Your ability to apply UI/UX product design best practices and use of visual design and prototyping tools will help our organization continue to evolve at pace with the ever changing landscape of the cloud technology ecosystem. This role reports to the Director of Product Design. 

Hello, we're A Cloud Guru

Our friends call us ACG.

We're on a mission to teach the WORLD to cloud. A Cloud Guru is the largest online cloud school on the planet. Our training feels more like logging into Netflix or Spotify - it's entertaining and playful. The people are the #1 reason employees say they stay at ACG. We’re a quirky, tight-knit crew that cares about our customers and each other. No egos here. Our leaders encourage thoughtfulness, compassion, being humble, and we have a bit of fun along the way.

It’s an exciting time to join the team, because we’re in a really unique space. We have an amazing product that people want, and we're in an industry that's tripling in size overnight.

What makes the Product & Engineering team awesome...

Learning to cloud means unlocking a world of possibilities for our students. Using the latest tech, we design the tools to teach people cloud faster and better. The team is talented (and a little quirky), and we’re all in it together.

  • Cutting edge tech. We've built a cloud-first Serverless Architecture with tools like Lambda, API Gateway, GraphQL, and ReactJS
  • Founded by engineers. Having a CEO that is also an engineer is nice, because he knows the effort it takes to make things awesome.
  • We're friendly. We're down-to-earth and collaborative. There's no high-performing jerks, there's no heroes, there's just great teams.
  • We're hungry, and humble. We are dedicated to learning all the things to create the best product possible.

If you're down to earth and enjoy a laugh while also working hard you'll love it here. - Joanna, Avocado to Guac Ratio Guru (and Product Manager)

As a Lead Product Designer at ACG, you’ll get to:

  • Work closely with Product and Development teams to deliver customer solutions
  • Understand and deliver for our customer experience through testing, and analyzing data while constantly looking for new opportunities to improve
  • Be a mentor and champion to help grow our U.S. based product team
  • Work on design systems and customer research
  • Work on the hands on labs and platform initiatives

We are looking for someone who can:

  • Use visual design and prototyping tools such as Figma to implement, present and communicate work with the team
  • Utilize data to influence good design
  • Apply best practices to utilize UI/UX to create mockups and final designs
  • Create web or digital products and design for user interaction

What you bring to the table

We focus on hiring values aligned people, because we believe the right person can learn all the things to be successful in their role. Self-confidence plays a big part in what you apply for. We encourage all job applicants to apply even if they are nervous to do so. College degrees aren't required for any roles, and career gaps or switches are totally welcome.

  • 5+ years working with a product team 
  • 5+ years experience with both UX and UI Product Design
  • Experience creating web or digital products and designing for user interaction 
  • Proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Framer, and Principle 
  • Experience utilizing data to influence good design
  • Must exhibit excellent written and visual communication skills
  • Proven experience working in an autonomous environment
  • Must exhibit ongoing knowledge of product design best practices 
  • Proven experience coaching or mentoring other designers, and or previous team lead experience
  • Having worked on SAAS products is a plus
  • Previous experience in a startup or scale-up is highly advantageous
  • Familiarity with front end languages such as HTML/CSS/JavaScript is a plus
  • Prior experience working with remote or distributed cross functional teams is helpful

We want the people who care about doing a good job. The ones who have the humility and hunger to learn. - Sam Kroonenburg, Co-Founder and CEO

More than a job

Where you work isn’t just a career decision -- it’s a life decision. We get it. That’s why we want all of our Gurus to feel a sense of belonging that comes from feeling supported in all areas of their lives. Everyone has family, friends and interests outside of their careers, so we offer perks and benefits to make work, work better for you.

  • 4 weeks PTO, plus 10 sick days, and holidays. Whether it's hiking to a waterfall in Costa Rica or bonding with your couch, we all need downtime. All Gurus get four weeks paid time off, 10 sick days, and enough holiday to make a banker blush.
  • Let's get lunch. Lunches are catered three times per week, and our kitchen stays stocked with a smorgasbord of the team’s most requested snacks and drinks.
  • Parking is on us. We have your Downtown parking covered. We offer paid garage parking nearby the office. We also have perks for going green by walking and taking public transit.
  • We’ve got you covered. We offer insurance plans that pay for 100% of your medical, dental, and vision, and 80% for your family/dependents.
  • Gender-neutral paid parental leave. Expanding your family? We offer 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, and reimburse up to $10,000 for eligible adoption expenses.
  • $1,000 continuing education budget. All Gurus get $250 a quarter to spend on personal development, and 2 hours each week reserved for learning something new.

What’s the interview process like at ACG?

Applying for a job can feel intimidating and like a full-time job of its own. You shouldn’t have to burn through a week of sick time or all your best out-of-office excuses just to put feelers out for a new career opportunity. We want to be as transparent about the process as possible to help ease your mind. It’s our goal to provide you a fair, efficient interviewing experience that respects you and your time — and to do it all with a sidecar of delight.

Once you submit an application, we’ll review it. If you’re a good fit, you’ll have an initial chat with a recruiter over the phone. A phone interview with a manager typically follows. Depending on your role, you might then be asked to do a little homework (but nothing too time consuming). Then we’ll schedule a Zoom call to meet other members of the team, answer any questions you have, and give you a feel for what it’s really like to work at ACG. If you're on the fence, just give it a try.

Keep being awesome, Cloud Gurus.

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