Product Designer
Small business owners don’t get the love they deserve from traditional banks. That’s where BlueVine comes in. BlueVine is a leading provider of online working capital financing to small and mid-sized businesses. We’re using cutting edge technology to disrupt the traditional banking industry and develop the next generation of fast and simple financial products, designed for today’s small businesses. BlueVine is headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed by leading investors including Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Citi Ventures, SVB Financial, Nationwide Insurance, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Arm).
As a Product Designer at BlueVine, you'll directly impact the look and feel of our product and lead strategic initiatives. You’ll be involved with launching new product, scaling our platform to work across multiple product lines and ensuring the platform works for small businesses, channel and strategic partners.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
- Drive the design vision of the company, working closely with Product Management, Engineering and Product Marketing leaders
- Own the lending user experience products within the BlueVine product portfolios
- Understand and build solutions for different customers sets from small businesses, channel partners through to strategic partners
- Generate flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups for various platforms
- Be an expert across web including responsive design
- Strong visual and UX design skills having a clear grasp of typography, layout, color, behavior and text
- Break down complex problems, explore ways to delight users with simple, efficient solutions
- Strive for and execute on pixel-perfect design, but also are able to work within time constraints
- Work with design leadership to drive co-ordinated, consistent experience across the portfolio of products
- Present and justify design thinking and derive meaningful feedback from peers and stakeholders
- Gather customer needs and behaviors via user interviews and testing
WHAT WE LOOK FOR:
- A degree in Interactive Design, Product Design or a related field
- At least 3+ years of product/UX design experience for web including responsive design
- Proven ability with both design oversight and hands-on creation of user experiences and visual design deliverables, including user flows, wireframes, typography, and information design
- Comfortable working in a fast paced environment, handling multiple priorities simultaneously
- Excellent communication and reasoning skills that allow you to broadly present and defend your designs
- Ability to use both quantitative and qualitative research to solution designs for users and partners
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Bootstrap a plus
**All candidates are required to submit a portfolio featuring strong visual design skills
PERKS & BENEFITS:
- Receive over $1,000 annually for a wellness benefit of your choice
- Free commuter benefits - CalTrain passes for SF employees and a monthly parking allowance for SF/NJ employees
- Weekly catered lunches
- Unlimited snacks in fully stocked kitchens
- Generous PTO and holidays
- Excellent health coverage and life insurance benefits
- Generous, paid parental leave which covers up to 15 weeks
- Pet-friendly offices
