by Ronald Barron | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Director of Design & UX
Location: United States
Who We Are
SPINS is the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics, and consulting for the Natural, Organic and Specialty Products Industry. We transform raw data into intelligent and actionable business solutions that enable consumers to pursue wellness. At SPINS, we believe data is important, but our people are the real differentiator. That’s why we maintain a culture that is focused on collaboration, flexibility, and open communication.
Are you a visionary leader with a passion for creating innovative and user-centered products? A visual thinker with a proven ability to dive into details while maintaining a strategic big picture vision? If you said yes to any of these, then this is the role for you.
We are currently seeking a Director of Design & UX to join the fast-growing Product Design team at SPINS. As the Director of Design & UX, you will be responsible for leading and executing the design strategy for our products. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, data science and research, to understand customer needs and create intuitive and visually appealing product experiences.
What you will do:
- Create visually exciting, easy to use and emotionally engaging user experiences.
- Lead all phases of complex design projects from initial concept to final launch.
- Translate high level ideas, business requirements into elegant and intuitive design solutions.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive design process/workflow for the team to ensure consistent and efficient delivery of high-quality designs.
- Build and scale a functional design system, design pattern and component libraries.
- Support and mentor a team of junior and senior product designers.
- Provide feedback on design deliverables and ensure design quality and consistency is met across products.
- Manage and forecast design team capacity and workload.
- Collaborate with product managers to optimize design resource allocation and utilization.
- Communicate design concepts and rationales to stakeholders and leadership.
What you bring:
- 10+ years of experience in product design, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role with direct reports.
- Portfolio that demonstrates design sophistication, mastery of design fundamentals and your direct contributions to projects.
- Experience leading and mentoring design teams.
- Experience managing resource allocation and utilization.
- Experience presenting design portfolio to senior leaders, clearly articulating design rationale and user benefits.
- Ability to create incredibly detailed designs, interaction models and UI specifications that bring clarity across design, development and product teams.
- Experience building and scaling a unified design system across multiple products.
- Experience designing dashboards, data visualizations and reports that present data through easy-to-use interfaces.
- An in-depth understanding of modern UX and design principles, design systems and user research methodologies.
- A desire to teach and educate others on design thinking and design best practices.
- Expert level proficiency in Figma and Miro.
If you are excited about this role, have relevant experience but it doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. At SPINS we are dedicated to building a passionate, inclusive and authentic workplace that provides room to grow.
Remote
What SPINS Offers
We have enjoyed tremendous growth over the years and, as a leader in a fast-growing industry, we have no plans to slow down! While all that growth brings excitement, it is also an opportunity for SPINS to show it values the health and wellness of its team members. Whether you are based at our Chicago headquarters or remote, we continue to stay true to SPINS:
- We embrace hybrid and remote work options so that you have the flexibility to create a work/life balance that actually works!
- Virtual yoga, HIIT, meditation classes, and team SPINS Peloton rides
- Each employee is allotted paid time to use to volunteer with an organization of their choice and charitable donations are matched.
- CEO Connect, a monthly informal small group Q&A session with our top leader
- Semi-annual company-wide survey that is used to shape company programs, perks, and culture.
The SPINS Way
- Direct We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
- Determined We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
- Passionate We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
- Collaborative We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Associate Director of Product Design
UNITED STATES
PRODUCT & DESIGN
FULL-TIME
REMOTE
About Peerspace:
Peerspace is on a mission to bring people together to meet, create, and celebrate. Our online marketplace makes it easier than ever to find and book unique spaces for any activity.
As the world’s largest peer-to-peer marketplace for venue rental, Peerspace invites people to find, share, and book the most magical spaces in the world. Since 2014, our community has been opening the door to tens of thousands of spaces – from lofts and mansions to storefronts and studios – helping people to create one-of-a-kind experiences that would not be possible elsewhere. In total, over 8 million people have been welcomed into a Peerspace location, and we’re looking for teammates who want to help us reach the next 80 million.
The Role:
At Peerspace, it’s our goal to make every space a source of inspiration and creativity for businesses and professionals across the world. We solve problems in the short-term real estate market which means we have to empathize with our guests and hosts to uncover unmet needs. Building a diverse design team that is capable of researching, collaborating, supporting, and creating engaging user experiences is key to executing our business strategy.
As the Associate Director of Design, you will lead the team that owns the design of the entire Peerspace ecosystem. You will also be the lead designer on at least one of our development pods. This is a critical position where you will have a direct impact on our customers and the overall trajectory of the business. You’ll own the end-to-end design direction and strategy for new users, guests, and hosts of our marketplace. You will establish a strong design culture within brand, marketing, and product development teams. Finally, you will continue to build out the design team at Peerspace as you hire and lead the next designers that join the company.
This role reports to the CPO.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to deliver strong design work while also coaching and mentoring other designers on your team
- Collaborate and communicate with designers, product managers, engineers, contractors as well as marketing and executive teams
- Establish best practices for our design process from ideation and research to shipping creative solutions to our product challenges
- Translate design decisions into style guides, patterns and reusable components for other teammates to use
- Contribute to and evangelize our product strategy
- Design solutions and concepts with wireframes, interactive prototypes, and polished designs
- Help build a culture that promotes and values design throughout the organization
Requirements:
- Portfolio of relevant past work (please include this with your application) that demonstrates a strong track record of delivering high quality product design work
- 8+ years of design experience as an individual contributor or design manager
- Experience in designing across multiple platforms and responsive applications that can fit screen sizes for mobile, tablet, laptop, and desktop
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload
- Experience hiring and mentoring a team of cross-functional designers
- Experience designing marketplace products is a bonus
The annual salary range for this role is $160,000-$190,000. The actual salary amount will vary depending on the applicants experience, skills and abilities as well as internal equity and market data.
Perks:
- Competitive salary with employee stock options and access to 401k and FSA/HSA
- Medical coverage subsidized by Peerspace
- Dental, vision, and disability coverage provided at no cost
- Take-it-when-you-need-it vacation and sick days
- $500 annual professional development allowance
- 20% discount on all Peerspace booking
We are a remote first company and offer the following perks to ensure our team members have a comfortable and productive working experience:
- Apple laptop, 4K display, and stipend to setup home office
- Monthly cell phone and internet credit
- Coworking membership (in lieu of home office)
- Quarterly in-person offsites and events for all team members (in Peerspace locations, of course)
Working At Peerspace
Peerspace is proudly certified as a Great Place to Work™ and we’re a remote first company with team members located in cities around the globe.
Diversity
At Peerspace, we’re dedicated to creating a team that’s diverse, equitable and inclusive. Our workplace is a space where all team members are empowered to blaze their own trail, make things happen, and take pride in their work. We believe bringing people together from different backgrounds and identities makes us stronger and better serves the Peerspace community. We’d especially like to encourage applicants from different backgrounds, locations, and experiences to apply.
About Us:
Peerspace is a community marketplace that makes planning gatherings – starting with finding the perfect space – simple. Whether it’s a loft for a party, a rooftop for a film shoot, or an art gallery for a meeting, Peerspace empowers people to create one-of-a-kind experiences at any price point. As a community marketplace, Peerspace makes it easy for individuals and businesses to monetize their underused space and share it with an audience of millions.
The company’s investors include Foundation Capital, Structure Capital, Red Bridge Partners, and 31VENTURES.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Lead Recruiter
REMOTE /
RECRUITING /
There are very few companies that can do both software and hardware at an exceptional level. Backbone has a world class team across a multitude of disciplines (software, data science, hardware engineering, supply chain, and more), and we’re looking for a Lead Recruiter to help expand it. This person will help develop the talent on the team scaling our product and will have the opportunity to work at an incredibly high growth company on the bleeding edge.
What you’ll be doing
- Build a strong candidate pipeline through sourcing and screening for open roles in engineering, hardware, design, product, data/analytics, and occasionally G&A
- Lead collaboration with team leaders to forecast hiring goals and needs
- Build and drive scalable recruiting processes and strategies with an eye on candidate experience
- Facilitate job offers and new hire onboarding
- Track candidates through an ATS platform and report on hiring metrics to business leaders
What we’re looking for
- 4+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Passion for building teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience
- Proven abilities to attract senior candidates and to build diverse pipelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an appropriate blend of professionalism and friendliness
- Technical expertise with an ability to understand and explain job requirements
- Openness to changing priorities (at a startup growing quickly, they often do)
- Work authorization in the US
- Experience recruiting candidates for hardware roles is a plus
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
UX Research Assistant
REMOTE /
USER RESEARCH /
/ REMOTE
As a UX Research Assistant, you will have the opportunity to support User Experience Researchers on a variety of projects and studies while also building your own research skillset. As one of the first members in the UX research team, you’ll be able to shape the development of this discipline in a fast-growing gaming company.
What you’ll be doing
- Assist User Experience Researchers (UXRs) in research planning, participant recruitment, lab coordination, study support, data analysis, and general team operations
- Work with UXRs to interpret data and develop insights post-study
- Create and maintain documentation to support a consistent research process
- Coordinate and manage participant recruitment with external partners
- Collaborate with a talented team of engineers, designers, and data scientists to realize the ideal user experience
- Help to define and establish a mature research pipeline and infrastructure to support the needs of a growing business
What we’re looking for
- 2+ years of experience in research or product design or an equivalent degree
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Eagerness to learn and advance in a user research career
- A desire to grow within a small team and build world-class gaming experiences
- Experience in supporting projects end-to-end in a business environment
- Familiarity with one or more of the following methods: interviewing, surveys, playtesting, diary studies, ethnographies, statistical analysis
- Experience working in the gaming industry or integrated consumer hardware/software products is a plus
- Experience with participant screening, recruitment, and scheduling is a plus
This is a fully remote role. Up to 10% travel expected.
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by Ronald Barron | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Senior Product Designer
- Green Bay, WI – Remote OK
- Full-Time
- $100k – $120k
We are not actively seeking to hire right now for this future opportunity, we are always looking for talented individuals who are interested in working alongside our team. If you are interested in this role, please submit an application and we’ll reach out as soon as this opportunity opens.
About Headway
Founded in 2015, Headway was born out of a passion to bring entrepreneurial ideas to market and keep them there. We work holistically with our client partners as a true extension of their product team, not just as an execution arm of their business. If we see something broken, whether that’s a workflow, a marketing or messaging strategy, or a needless feature, we speak up, and our clients trust us to help them fix it.
Because we’re more than just designers, developers, and product strategists, we achieve results that bring successful long-term partnerships and trusted referrals. We help entrepreneurs and corporate innovators build a business not just an app. Our approach to validating ideas and building sustainable business models has been a catalyst for our growth. In 2020 we were honored to be named to the Inc. 5000 at #918 and in 2021 at #2765. This approach, coupled with realistic and incremental software releases, results in a friendly, fun, and collaborative atmosphere where our colleagues and clients both have room to learn and grow.
View our case studies and see how our clients talk about our approach.
If you’re a podcast fan, check out Seaworthy, where we explore ways to help companies grow and scale their business and ideas, Even Keeled, a podcast about the craft of creating software and effective development teams, and Exploring Product, a show where we go behind the scenes on what it really takes to bring a new product to market.
We’re actively engaged with our community through various live streams and videos to help startups and product teams reach their goals. We’re excited about what we’ve achieved in the last six years, but we’re just getting started. We need your help to take us to the next level!
A Day In The Life
During a typical work week, our crew members enjoy a balanced assignment of 35 hours on client projects with the ability to invest the other 5 hours on a combination of individual goals and team meetings. Twice a year, we take a full week away from client work to focus on team goals and internal project initiatives. These weeks alternate between a retreat-style destination and a more focused week-long design and development sprint at our primary office in Wisconsin. Check out our years in review to get a feel for how much fun it is to work at Headway!
What Does Success Look Like?
During your first 2-4 weeks at Headway, you’ll receive extensive training including a customized trail of technical assessments and assignments. This training covers the fundamentals of our core technologies, our process and workflow, testing strategies, tips for successful client interactions, and much more.
You’ll have dedicated pairing time scheduled with various colleagues to cover different skills, and we’ll even participate in several mock client meetings so your first standup or sprint planning meeting doesn’t carry with it the weight of your first client interaction. After this training period, you’ll be successfully contributing to new feature work on a client project in the context of a team. You’ll also be participating in daily standups, sprint planning meetings, and retrospectives.
Ongoing Support
Each week, you’ll meet with your team lead to ensure that you have the time and attention you need to be successful. Your needs and questions will always come first in this meeting, but other topics discussed include:
- Individual quarterly goal progress
- Project status / team issues / weekly retro
- Individual responses to our weekly team health questionnaire
Quarterly and Annual Reviews
In addition to weekly touchpoint meetings, more formal quarterly reviews are scheduled to discuss successes and areas for growth identified over the last 3 months. We have annual performance assessments and salary reviews, though we reserve the right to provide a merit-based pay raise at any time. Most crew members achieve between a 2% and 5% raise each year within their same role, but bigger jumps are possible when roles or responsibilities increase. We’re here to grow with you sustainably over the long term.
Experience and Results At Every Level
With an experienced leadership team encompassing design, development, sales, marketing, product, and operations, Headway is poised for an amazing 2022. Our business is guided by EOS and we have strong processes, documentation, and people to support your growth and development. As they say, “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” For more on that, check out our benefits!
Why Should You Apply?
- Work on exciting projects in the latest tech across a variety of industries including the following:
- Healthcare and Fitness
- Financial Technology
- Logistics and Supply Chain
- Social and Communication
- Collaborate with colleagues and clients directly to ship features that users love
- Work with appreciative clients who seek out and value your input and feedback
- Strong leadership and top-notch colleagues to help you realize your full potential
- Career growth and leadership opportunities
Key Benefits
- 3 weeks of PTO & Sick Time available immediately
- 4 weeks of paid parental leave.
- 1 week of additional time off during the winter holiday season
- 100% of health care and dental premiums paid for you and all your dependents
- Up to a 4% matching 401k contribution based on your dollar contribution
- $6,000 hardware onboarding budget including $2,500 to spend however you like
- $2,500 annual education and conference budget
- Quarterly profit-sharing bonus plan
The Hiring Process
If after we review your application and we choose to move forward, the following interviews will typically take place over the course of 3-5 days (depending on scheduling):
- Work history and aspirations chat with our People and Team Strategist.
- Skills and performance discussion with our Head of Design and a Design Lead.
- Portfolio Review
- Design Collaboration Exercise
- Take-home skills assessment.
- EQi and Kolbe assessment exercise.
- Group interview with several members of the Headway team.
Position Description
As a Senior Designer, you’ll be working within a small multidisciplinary team of designers, developers, and product strategists. You’ll be working on applications and web projects, although sometimes you’ll be guiding your own ship on a smaller adventure.
You’ll be working closely with our team and clients to challenge assumptions, create small experiments, in-depth prototypes, detailed specifications, and style guides.
With a high priority on business and user needs, you’ll help make decisions that stand up for users to solve their problems and create true value in their lives.
Responsibilities
You are responsible for executing within our design process with a focus on client and user needs including:
- Practicing “craft within context” and providing designers and apprentices guidance
- Driving all design from the outside-in with user story mapping and MoSCoW prioritization
- Assisting with design critiques and QA
- Participating in pairing sessions to help crewmates learn and grow
- Performing QA of both internal design quality and end-user UI/UX
- Conducting user interviews, creating small experiments, in-depth prototypes, detailed specifications, design systems, and validation
- Setting project design direction and following through with successful execution and delivery
- Interfacing with clients during sprint planning sessions and retros to ensure projects are on track
- Leading product/project discovery sessions and workshops with necessary internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of experience
- You have experience shipping applications for Web, iOS, and Android
- You have experience working with businesses at different levels of maturity
- You have professional knowledge of user-centered design, usability principles, and techniques
- You have the ability to present your work and stand firm for the right reasons
- You have experience working within Agile/SCRUM processes
- You have the ability to think big whilst being detail-oriented and delivery focused
- You enjoy working within multidisciplinary teams with UX designers, visual designers, and developers
- You enjoy communicating and working with developers to solve technical challenges
- You enjoy visualizing and prototyping concepts to varying levels of fidelity to demonstrate and test ideas
- You are passionate with a hunger to design and make things people use every day
- You are organized and self-motivated
- You are an excellent communicator (verbally and written), capable of inspiring colleagues and clients
- You are outgoing, personable, sociable, and easy-going
- You are open to criticism from your team to benefit project development
- You are always eager to learn and to share knowledge
- You are able to deal with pressure and can work in a fast-paced environment
- You have the ability to develop your own designs with CSS/HTML & Javascript
- You have experience with interaction prototyping tools like Framer, Invision Studio, Principle
- You have experience designing branding and identity
- You have experience running or participating in design sprints
Expectations
- You live by our Guiding Manifesto and embody the core values of Headway
- You are open to criticism from your team and are always eager to learn and to share knowledge
- You have the ability to think big while being detail-oriented and delivery-focused
- You are self-motivated and able to deal with pressure and work well in a fast-paced environment
- You have an outgoing, personable, and sociable attitude
- You have initiative to solve challenges, meet goals, and set new directions based on data
- You are capable of inspiring colleagues and clients
- You have a passion to create useful and valuable solutions
- You prioritize and attend our twice-annual team weeks on-site at our primary office in Wisconsin, or at an awesome TBD destination
Next Steps
If this sounds like you, we’d love to have you apply! We’re a remote-first company so this position is open to designers local to the Green Bay, WI area, and anyone residing in and legally able to work in the US.
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