What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer (Remote) position at Fleetio?
Design is integral to Fleetio’s culture and how we build products together. One of our core beliefs as a company is “Design is an important part of everything we do.”
We’re adding another talented Product Designer to our growing Product Design team to help us continue to build remarkable software. As a Product Designer at Fleetio, you will create intuitive, innovative, and, most importantly, useful software interfaces that our customers will love to use. You will rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals from concept to execution and craft new solutions for complex problems. You will collaborate with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to continually refine and iterate the Fleetio design language system.
If you are a creative, driven, and passionate designer who intentionally puts yourself in customers' shoes and thinks deeply about improving their experience, we would love to hear from you!
What’s Fleetio?
Fleetio (pronounced "flee-tee-oh”) is a leading provider of fleet management SaaS that helps organizations of all sizes track, analyze, automate, and manage their vehicles and equipment. With a purpose-built, easy-to-use, and comprehensive suite of tools and features, Fleetio makes it easy for fleet managers to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and improve safety and compliance.
We’ve become a trusted partner for thousands of businesses across the globe, from small startups to large enterprises. With a focus on innovation, customer success, and sustainable growth, Fleetio is on a mission to transform fleet management.
What makes us special, you might ask? We’ve been remote-friendly since 2012 and have been recognized as Birmingham Alabama’s Best Places to Work five years in a row. We have over 200 employees all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and have over 5000 paying customers in 70 countries. It’s an exciting time at Fleetio as we’re growing 50 % year on year and have just closed our Series C round led by our incredible investment partner, Elephant. We’re building the fleet management platform of the future – the single screen for fleet managers to drive their businesses forward.
More about our product and company:
- Fleetio product overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlvIbwZT3oU
- Our careers page: https://www.fleetio.com/careers
- Check us out on Glassdoor (i.e., people love working here): https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Fleetio-Reviews-E1745407.htm
What you'll be doing
- Design and help implement features that frequently ship while maintaining high quality
- Create detailed mocks/specs of designs that allow engineers to build new features
- Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, new interface guidelines and design patterns, investments in refinement, polish and iteration, and insights driven by user research and customer feedback
- Develop deep empathy for our customers and use research to inform design solutions
- Compellingly communicate your design solutions and decisions to stakeholders (i.e. internal stakeholders, designers, engineers, and PMs) while being open to constructive feedback
- Collaborate closely with product, design, engineering, and marketing teams to solve complex problems, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into modern and intuitive application designs and features
- Work closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience
This is a position we consider essential to the company’s success. Be sure to mention coffee in your cover letter so we know you actually read this.
What's in it for you
- Design digital products used by thousands of users around the world. So many different types of companies and organizations operate a fleet each day, and Fleetio is a good fit for most of them (it’s a huge market).
- Be a part of an incredible team of “A” players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. We’re a customer-centric team with a great product, excellent support, and countless happy customers.
- Work remotely (within the United States), or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. We strive to promote a strong remote working culture and have done so since the beginning.
- 3 years of professional work experience within a SaaS environment focusing on product design and/or user interface design in web
- BA/BS degree in Design is highly preferred
- Strong command of visual design and information architecture with a mind for simplicity and knowledge of modern web UI patterns while exercising an extraordinary eye for typography, consistency, color, and subtle details
- Strong understanding of user-centered design thinking and integrating products/services across a platform (thinking in terms of design systems, not just screens)
- Ability to communicate design concepts at varying levels of resolution (sketches, low-fi mockups, hi-fi comps, interactive prototypes, etc.)
- Experience with cross-functional collaboration between research, design, product, engineering, data science, and marketing to develop successful strategies and decisions.
- Proven ability to bring projects from concept to completion (have designed and shipped software products)
- Skilled with modern design tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch) to produce wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
- 100% health/dental coverage (50% coverage for family)
- Vision insurance
- Incentive stock options
- 401(k) match of 4%
- PTO - 4 weeks
- 10 company holidays 2 floating holidays
- Parental and bonding leave
- Dependent care and medical FSA
- Short and long-term disability
- Community service funds
- Professional development funds
- Health and wellness initiatives
- Mac laptop new hire equipment stipend
- Monthly catered lunches
- Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks
- Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-REMOTE
Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
This application is not intended to and does not create a contract or offer of employment. Employment with Fleetio is at will.
If you have a disability or a special need that requires an accommodation to fill out the online application, please let us know by calling (205) 718-7500 or emailing recruiting@fleetio.com.