SafetyWing: Product Designer

Seeking a creative product designer for a fast-growing YC-startup 🚀

SafetyWing is building a global social safety net, including health and retirement for remote workers worldwide, as a replacement for national welfare systems. If we succeed, we believe this will help ensure freedom and equal opportunity for everyone and is one of the more important tasks of our time, that no one else is working on. 
We just raised a series A, and we’re looking for a product designer to help us create solutions for the first country on the internet. We’re a strong team of 25, our headquarter is in San Francisco, but our team is distributed. SafetyWing went through Y Combinator (W18).

🏄🏻‍♂️ Location Worldwide & remote

📌 Responsibilities
 
• Create user experience and user interface designs for desktop and mobile 
• Help with product ideation, concept development, quality assurance, and design implementation 
• Guard, shape, and maintain SafetyWing product design system 
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative user research, along with usability testings 
• Set design requirements based on information from internal teams and user research 
• Coordinate with other design team members to ensure consistent and accurate communication 
• Work closely with product engineers to suggest improvements for products and processes 
• Continually adopt new tools and practices as the work evolves 
• Present product design ideas to cross-functional teams and senior leadership 
• Juggle a mix of large and small projects, often with overlapping priority and urgency

⚙️ Requirements 

• Three to four years of work experience as product designer, user experience or user interface designer, or in other creative role 
• Proven experience in all phases of the design process including user research, copywriting, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, interaction design, and usability testing 
• Dynamic, creative personality, effective at engaging and influencing a variety of audiences 
• An ability to communicate clearly with peers across disciplines, follow design guidelines, and eagerness to try new applications and working methods 
• An intuitive eye for customer needs beyond the obvious, excellent attention to details, and creative problem-solving skills 
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional team members and interpret both qualitative and quantitative feedback 
• Passion for design, not satisfied with the status quo and always thinking of ways to improve

⭐️ Nice to have 

• Experience in creation and management of design systems 
• Experience in animation or rapid prototyping 
• Experience working in user research or analysis 
• Experience working remotely or as a digital nomad 
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript

🌸 In addition we are looking for someone who is 

• Interested to help build a global social safety net on the internet 
• Thinking for themselves instead of copying others 
• Creative and bold in the face of any problem 
• Intellectually honest and has high integrity