Check out this deck for more details about the role :)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nEGXN3Vbyd3uTtzfyZuDMBAJRY3lCZ3NtX2houqPPmQ/edit#slide=id.gef1eb2d633_0_72

Day in The Life:

We are excited for our first US-based full-time product designer to join the team, to build the best hiring software for local businesses hiring hourly workers. Ideally, you are a self-starter, entrepreneurial, have a strong design sense, and move fast.

You are going to work simultaneously on some of the biggest problems (refactoring our product to focus more on roles such as Store Manager, Head of HR, and their use cases), as well as quick and dirty UI fixes. In the company's first 3 years, we've been scrappy, and we've learned a lot about our customers and their needs. We are excited to iteratively apply these learnings to streamline the product, so our non-tech-savvy users can have an easier experience navigating the product and getting to value.

We'd like you to own the solution-finding phase of the product development process. Our ideal flow would be for PM to identify a problem to solve work with you (designer) to set priority assuming it's a high priority, for you to wireframe a few ideas that afternoon have a discussion the next morning with PM iterate with PM / eng over the next 1-2 days work towards a final prototype by the end of the week. Of course, this all hinges on you talking to users to maintain a solid foundation of user empathy and understanding.

We know that as with building a product, there's strengths and weaknesses to each designer. So here's what's most important to us. If your strengths resonate with this order, then let's talk!

• [most important] UX design, transforming complexity to simplicity
• Rapid prototyping, speed at execution; hacky and scrappy
• User research, bias for talking to users to understand / empathize with them
• Strong communication in an asynchronous team
• UI design
• Brand, website design
• [least important] Illustrations

Logistically, ideally you are based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and would come into our office in SF SOMA 3 days a week (we have a parking lot!). Our product team currently consists of our 3 PMs, Rob (North Carolina) Clif (Austin) Ruming (SF), our designer Phil (Ukraine), and ~30 software engineers (China, Hong Kong, Singapore) – across 3 product squads.

• As the first product design hire in the US, you will own design for one of our 3 products end-to-end, from ideation and research to pixel-perfect execution for new and existing products and features.
• You will play a large role in restructuring our design systems and information architecture, in a way that is more oriented around end-user roles, so we can build more tailored experiences based on each use case.
• You will work directly with our founding designer, PMs, and engineering leads to build and ship the very best experiences that delight our users
• You will apply the full breadth of your design skill set through user research, UX design, and UI design
• You will be responsible for our design vision, strategy and initiatives for an experience that exceeds our customers' expectations
• You will act as a design and UX advocate for our employees, advising on design best practices and solutions

Who You Are:

• B.A/B.S. in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or a related field/equivalent experience
• 5 years experience or equivalent experience designing digital products, with a preference for SaaS / B2B applications
• Experience in working and collaborating with diverse teams in a dynamic, rapid growth environment — comfortable negotiating tradeoffs with product and engineering partners
• Experience in creating beautiful, high-fidelity mockups of your designs using Sketch, Figma or other modern design tools ready to be handed off to engineering
• Thoughtful communication skills and the ability to present design decisions and processes openly, clearly, and confidently
• An outstanding portfolio showcasing a foundation in solving business problems and design fundamentals
• Ideally, you have built a product or have been part of a product team that went from 0 to 1.
• You are tenacious, and won't let a problem stand until you've figured out how to solve it.
• You are quick. Think on the order of minutes and hours, instead of days and weeks. We don't have time to waste.
• Ability to act independently with a high degree of accuracy and reliability

How to be successful in this role

Our customers love Workstream (check out this screenshot of 1 of 60 pages in our "wall of love" testimonial: https://tinyurl.com/y2nkxloa). We help them solve their biggest pain point, which is people and hiring.

At Workstream, we move fast. We are humble and hungry. And we work as a team. Check out our company values, which we use to make our decisions!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHaeKG3IUy_1kE0y8FRnM8PPoEdMS0gmNIsSP3dG-3A/edit

You will get to see your design come to life within days, instead of weeks/months of designing them. And you will be successful when you move fast, but deliberately so, as well. You will be successful when you talk to users in length upfront, so you have full context of the environment our customers work in and can speak their language.

We are looking for someone who has high EQ and high IQ, sets the bar high and expects greatness from themselves and those they work with, and has a bias for action (we are a startup!). We've been scaling fast and we are looking for someone who is excited about owning a function that is continuously shifting. Come run with us!