Senior Product Designer (Ukraine based)

About the role:

We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Designer who is eager to help small and mid-size brands thrive by building a product that helps them finance their business, manage inventory and pay bills. We’re a culture relentlessly focused on customer experience and design, without the bureaucracy of a larger organization.

Designers play a crucial role throughout the entire product development cycle. They start by identifying and defining customer problems, engaging directly with customers, and analyzing their feedback. Our designers are involved at every step, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to plan, develop, and prepare for successful releases. This ensures that customer needs and insights are at the core of our product solutions.

This role offers an opportunity to join our well-structured, small design team of three and make a significant impact on our product. Our team fosters a culture of collaboration, where designers have a voice and a high impact on the final result. We work towards long-term, mid-term, and short-term goals, closely collaborating with PMs and engineering to plan our next steps. For the right candidate, there is ample opportunity to advance and grow into a leadership position.

What you'll do:

• Build unified end-to-end experience working closely with the product, engineering, and customer success teams
• Be deeply involved in everything from top level product strategy down to UI.
• Review, find, and highlight problems; take initiative and ownership over solving them
• Work closely with design director, product managers and engineering
• Provide high-quality and thought-through prototypes, customer journeys, and mockups that eventually become live solutions to customer problems
• Define, optimize, and break down solutions into phases for feasibility and faster development

What you’ll need:

• 4+ years of hands-on product design experience.
• Ability to showcase examples of high-quality work that demonstrate your approach and product thinking.
• You have an obsessive customer focus and are always open to hearing and generating ideas for the business and end-user.
• Conducting various types of user research.
• Strong communicator, able to explain and present your thoughts and ideas in a clear, structured, and understandable manner while working with PMs and engineering teams in both Ukraine and the US.
• Contribute to product specifications, clearly communicating business and/or user problems, potential solutions, and steps to achieve the goal.
• Understanding of the development cycle and basic knowledge of frontend and backend architecture to inform your understanding of the feasibility and complexity of design implementation.
• Extensive experience working with design systems and a solid understanding of UI patterns and usability heuristics.
• You are a Figma wizard.
• Flexibility to start at 11:00am, with the workday ending between 7:00-8:00pm.
• Open for a hybrid work schedule of 3 days minimum in the Lviv office.

Nice to have:

• Experience working on b2b products for web and mobile web and can show your contribution.
• Experience working on fintech product.
• You have experience working with distributed teams between US and Ukraine.

Compensation:

The monthly starting salary range is between $5,000-$5,500 USD

While this role is based in Ukraine, please note that some standard benefits and perks typically offered in the United States will not be applicable.

• Competitive compensation and equity
• Top-tier medical insurance for employees and their dependents
• Unlimited PTO
• $2500 annual growth and development stipend
• $500 home office set up reimbursement
• Free office lunches
• Employee Referral Program
• Ability to work from our office in Lviv with stunning views of the city, or from home - we foster a remote-friendly culture

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Last updated on Aug 8, 2024