What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Product Designer - Riga, Latvia position at speechify?
Mission
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.
What You’ll Do
- Pitch, prototype, test, build, ship, and refine new features
- Refine our UX/UI patterns across our iOS and Android apps
- Rethink our onboarding and core user flows
- Influence the product roadmap
- Refine our process and help shape the design org
An Ideal Candidate Should Have
- Experience: You can demonstrate work that includes research, discovery, prototyping, and delivery of consumer-facing products across multiple platforms
- Product thinking: You understand strategy and can articulate what and why as equally as how. You embrace analytics and work side-by-side with PMs to pinpoint key opportunities
- Customer-centricity: You’re comfortable talking with customers and know how and when to use their feedback in the design process
- Collaboration: You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated PMs, engineers, and execs
- Craft: You’re skilled at typography, information design, and micro-interactions. You’re curious about audio. You understand what’s feasible in iOS, Android, and the browser
- Communication: You’re articulate and able to explain your ideas at various resolutions. You ask just as many questions as you answer. Your writing reflects the same attention to detail as your design
- Focus: We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
What we offer
- A dynamic environment where your contributions shape the company and its products
- A team that values innovation, intuition, and drive
- Autonomy, fostering focus and creativity
- The opportunity to have a significant impact in a revolutionary industry
- Competitive compensation, a welcoming atmosphere, and a commitment to an exceptional asynchronous work culture
- The privilege of working on a product that changes lives, particularly for those with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, and more
- An active role at the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio – a rapidly evolving tech domain
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