What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Product Designer position at Recruiting From Scratch?
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.
About Our Client:
Our client is scaling at an unprecedented rate. They are a marketplace that connects hourly workers with flexible shifts at warehouses, distribution centers, and event venues. They empower workers to find well-paying shifts—work that is flexible, transparent, meaningful, and available just a few taps away. They provide businesses with a business portal that helps them find the most reliable workers on-demand. By connecting both, they unlock new levels of productivity, earning potential, and avenues for growth.
They are seeking a passionate, entrepreneurial founding product designer to be involved in their full product development process, from feature inception to launch, for their worker, business, and internal team products. You will be the first full-time, in-house designer owning the entire design system, and will partner closely with their CEO & CTO to bring the product vision to life, using your product, visual, and experience design skills to drive an intuitive and engaging user experience.
About You
- User-obsessed. You keep the user-experience and journey central in your design thinking process, and spend as much time thinking about “why” as you do “how.”
- High-level of craft. You have excellent craft and attention to detail, understanding how small nuances interact to create a seamless, intuitive design.
- Systems thinking. As a founding designer, you’ll continue to build the foundation for our design systems and patterns, laying the tools and processes in place for our future design team.
- Collaborative. You’ll work closely with our engineering and operations teams, as well as our users, to help define our product roadmap and contribute to our growth through experimentation and optimization.
- Adaptable. You’re adaptable to a fast-paced, changing environment. You embrace iteration and work with pace, bringing vision and direction in the midst of ambiguity.
You Will
- Architect and own the design systems, visual identity, and user-experience from the ground-up to scale with our product and team.
- Build pixel-perfect designs for new features across our business-facing web app, worker-facing native app, and internal tools apps.
- Deeply understand and serve the needs of both our business customers and our workers, building a cohesive system that delivers value to both sides of our marketplace.
- Partner with our users to test concepts and synthesize feedback for our product & engineering team.
- Lead design reviews and share your work with leadership and relevant stakeholders.
You Have
- Multiple years of relevant product design experience
- A strong understanding of user-experience principles and a people-focused design process
- The ability to see the big picture, and then zoom back into the details
- Experience collaborating across cross-functional teams and effectively communicating your process and design to cross-team stakeholders outside of design
- Excellent visual design in combination with intuitive, interaction design
- Evidence of shipping features and user-experiences that have moved the needle
- Experience designing products for a two-sided marketplace is a plus
Our client's mission is to empower hourly workers and local businesses to unlock their full productivity and earning potential.
Their Values
Dream BIG - They are on a path to change the world for the better. They create and communicate a bold direction that inspires a life-changing vision. They don’t sacrifice long-term value for short-term results.
Olympian’s Work Ethic - Changing the world never comes easy. They work harder, longer, and smarter, not just two out of three. They put everything we have on the field.
Growth Mindset - They confront the toughest challenges head-on and persevere. Sometimes they fail, but they brush themselves off, adapt, learn, and push forward with resilience.
Customer Obsession - They go the extra mile for their workers and businesses. They remain focused on delivering high quality products and services that solve these often overlooked communities’ problems.
Salary : $160,000 - $190,000
