We are growing rapidly in 2024 and need your help:

Come join us on this incredible journey as a contractor on our product design team. You’ll get the opportunity to shape the product as well as the team. This role will be contracted for 4 months, with the potential for longer-term employment if interest and performance is there.

Your role

We're looking to bring on a senior designer to lead product design in one of our core teams. We have a wide product surface area, covering request management, no-code workflow builders, dashboards, sourcing, payments, and more. You’ll work with a tight-knit team that values open communication and cross-functional collaboration. We move quickly to solve a wide range of complex product challenges with 100% emphasis on end-user experience.

You will

• Contribute strategic thinking to product features and roadmap
• Design highly intuitive products and features for complex workflows
• Own the overall user experience for a specific product area.
• Collaborate closely with our product and customer-facing teams to learn about our users and design thoughtful solutions
• Iterate quickly on designs based on user feedback
• Partner closely with PMs, engineers, and other stakeholders to brainstorm, define, and implement new features and offerings
• Participate in regular design reviews to gather feedback from the rest of the design team

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience, preferably at a SaaS or consumer technology company
• Experience shipping at least one full product or a significant feature as the lead designer
• Experience iterating with engineers and other team members on both visual and UX designs to get the experience and details just right
• Great presentation, collaboration and communication skills
• Empathetic champion for your work’s audience and customers
• Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools
• Understanding of the technical limitations and workflow for building web interfaces (CSS/HTML/JS) and native mobile apps (Swift, Kotlin/Java)

The expected rate for this role is $100 - $125 / hour.

Perks & Benefits

At Zip, we’re committed to providing our employees with everything they need to do their best work.

• 📈 Start-up equity
• 🦷 Full health, vision & dental coverage
• 🍽️ Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees
• 🚍 Commuter benefit
• 🚠 Team building events & happy hours
• 🌴 Flexible PTO
• 💻 Apple equipment plus home office budget
• 💸 401k plan

We're looking to hire Zipsters and that means hiring people who take ownership, communicate openly, have an underdog mindset, and are excited to increase the pace of innovation for every business in the world. We encourage all candidates to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match up to our job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong. We look forward to hearing from you.