What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Designer position at Garage?
Founding Designer at Garage (YC W24)
About Us
Garage is building the platform that powers commerce across America's essential industries. We started by serving fire departments, where buying mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and waiting. We automate the entire transaction: payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. Months become minutes.
In under a year, we now serve local governments across all 50 states and have grown revenue >10x. We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M total raised) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. We're early, we're moving fast, and we're just getting started.
About The Role
The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $200,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.
Equal Opportunity
As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where you can be you. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, natural origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class.
About Us
Garage is building the platform that powers commerce across America's essential industries. We started by serving fire departments, where buying mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and waiting. We automate the entire transaction: payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. Months become minutes.
In under a year, we now serve local governments across all 50 states and have grown revenue >10x. We recently closed a $13.5M Series A ($18M total raised) from Infinity Ventures, Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and other top investors. We're early, we're moving fast, and we're just getting started.
About The Role
- We’re looking for someone to shape and grow the design function across both brand and product.
- Own the visual design of our products, mainly relating to end-to-end buyer and seller experiences on the marketplace.
- Create visually compelling sales and marketing materials (static and video) that will be consumed by hundreds of thousands around the country.
- Work closely with marketing and engineering to ship high-fidelity designs.
- Talk to customers and use data, research, and iteration to continuously improve user experiences.
- Help us build out our design team, and dive deep into areas that you find more interesting as we grow.
- Ability and willingness to work in-person in NYC.
- A creative designer comfortable working in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment.
- Expertise in UX, with a deep understanding of user flows, interaction design, and usability.
- A sharp eye for visual design and detail-oriented.
- We’ve grown revenue over 10x in the last year and are well capitalized after a recent $13.5M Series A ($18M in funding raised total).
- Our product is something people use everyday to buy the equipment local communities everywhere depend on.
- We have a talent-dense, high-performance team where everyone joining now has an outsized impact.
- What we’ve built works. We’re backed by world-class vendors: Y Combinator, Infinity Ventures, Initialized Capital, FJ Labs, and more.
- You’ll be one of our first 35 employees, operating as a foundational member of the team, partnering alongside the company’s founders.
- Growth oriented. We invest in people who grow as the company grows. We all should be constantly learning.
- Humility. Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.
- Customer focused. We have a genuine love for our customers. Customer success is our success.
- Hack to success. We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make informed bets, launch quickly, and iterate.
- Competitive salary and stock options
- 100% covered health, dental and vision insurance (with additional buy-up options)
- Unlimited paid time off every year in addition to company observed holidays
- Daily lunch & dinner
- $100 / month wellness stipend
- 401(k) w/ employer match to help save for your future
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Bi-annual team offsite
- Relocation assistance
The salary range for this role is $150,000 to $200,000. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This compensation range may also be modified in the future.
Equal Opportunity
As an equal-opportunity employer, we are committed to building an inclusive environment where you can be you. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, natural origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected class.
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