What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Designer position at Seated?
All About Us
Seated is a mobile app that rewards consumers for dining out, ordering pickup or getting delivery from the best local restaurants. Seated is the first dynamic pricing platform for restaurants—we help fill their seats while providing members incredible rewards to top brands and unique experiences.
Here at Seated, we strongly believe that restaurants are a vital part of our community. Through best-of-breed technology, our mission is to help ensure their continued success as they provide amazing meals and one-of-a-kind experiences. We currently drive demand to over 1,000 restaurant partners across 5 US markets, helping to grow both their dine-in and online order sales. For each meal enjoyed, our members earn rewards to top brands like Uber, Sephora, Target, Amazon & CB2, building a loyal member community to support our local restaurant partners.
We’re a team of entrepreneurs, small business lovers, restaurant enthusiasts, hackers, developers and functional experts all passionate about using technology to push the restaurant world to a new frontier. Backed by Insight, Craft, Rho, Greycroft and Glade Brook we’re expanding quickly and looking for talented and ambitious people to embark on the journey with us. If you have the curiosity & passion to drive our mission together, we would love to hear from you. We have an office in NYC but we are open to this role being remote.
What you’ll do
- Break down complex problems and explore ways to delight users with tools that solve needs efficiently and effectively.
- Execute pixel-perfect design, while understanding how to overcome imperfections in order to meet time-sensitive deadlines.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to build products that effectively serve our users.
- Define and refine components for Seated’s design system when new patterns are necessary, and be able to communicate ideas when they are not.
What you’ll bring
- Excellent portfolio demonstrating your passion for simple, intuitive, and beautiful design—and the decisions or UX/UI choices you made to achieve outcomes.
- Command over the fundamental pillars of graphic design—typography, color theory, grids and layout, formal geometry, etc.
- Understanding of interaction design and information architecture, and experience developing wireframes and testing prototypes.
- Expert skill in Sketch/Figma and the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
- Strong communication and presentation skills that enable you to clearly convey and defend design decisions to stakeholders.
- 2 years experience designing web or mobile applications.
- Degree in Design, Human-computer interaction, or equivalent work experience.
- An understanding of HTML / CSS
- Skills in motion a bonus (After Effects)
At Seated we welcome passionate people from all backgrounds, helping us make dining experiences more accessible & rewarding. If you have the curiosity & passion to drive our mission together, we would love to hear from you.