Senior Product Designer
About Dutchie
Dutchie is the cannabis industry’s leading and fastest-growing e-commerce provider, powering online ordering for the top dispensaries throughout the United States. We’re a product-focused company that’s created a best-in-class experience for cannabis dispensaries and shoppers. Based out of Bend, Oregon, we’re venture funded by Casa Verde Capital, one of the leading Cannabis-focused VC's, Gron Ventures, members of the founding team at DoorDash, Kevin Durant and Thirty Five Ventures, and other notable angel investors.
About the Role
The Sr. Product Designer will work directly with Dutchie’s Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer and play a significant role in the design process to help drive the user experience. This is a high impact role, where you’ll be directly responsible for the creation of features that will ship to production on a daily basis. You’ll also work with our CPO to design large-scale projects that represent significant milestones on the product roadmap and move us closer towards achieving our larger goals and vision. As the first design hire, you’ll have the opportunity to shape our design-culture from the ground up, iterating and advancing new design techniques, methodologies, and practices within the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Lead design projects across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches
- Work with small multi-disciplinary teams. You’ll partner closely with engineering and other business departments to find elegant but practical solutions to design challenges
- Be autonomous. You’ll take full ownership of your work, and you take responsibility for every last detail, every step of the way
- Responsible for UX/UI design across web and mobile platforms
- Implement design patterns and elements which work best for different workflows and types of information
- Responsible for typography, color, layout, graphics, visual effects, imagery, iconography, texture, mood
- Employ a user-focused mindset to advocate for the user throughout the design process
- Contribute to our design system and enforce visual design consistency
- Generate high-quality web and app experiences based upon specified features and functions
- Map new and unfamiliar user features in an intuitive way
- Ability to collaborate with engineering teams to connect back-end development to the experience and resolve connectivity issues
- Ability to drive deliverables to deadlines independently
- Openness to collaboration and team-based problem solving
- Design features and large-scale projects on an aggressive schedule
What You Bring
- An incredible eye for beautiful, pixel-perfect design
- A portfolio of design work that’s visually elegant, modern, and demonstrates your ability to solve complex problems with intuitive solutions
- BA degree in Design or a related field or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience designing for web and mobile
- Experience with design tools such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, Invision or similar tools
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, detail-oriented and receptive to feedback
- Self-motivated to prioritize and manage workload and meet critical project deadlines
- 3+ years of experience designing functional, well-loved products (big or small)
- Experience with user research and initial UX/lo-fi product mockups
- Strong experience designing for mobile
- Experience working closely with engineering teams and working in an environment that prioritizes fast prototyping and frequent iteration
- Quantitative and user behavior analysis skills
- Excellent written and verbal communicator
- Experience with HTML, CSS (anything further is a plus, but not a requirement)
- Demonstrated time management and organizational skills
You'll get...
- Competitive Salary
- Full benefits - Health & Dental
- Equity
- Flexible vacation days, sick days, and work from home days
- Technology (hardware, software, reading materials, etc..) allowance
- The opportunity to shape an entire industry and create a product that touches millions of people
Culture
We're hard-working, high energy, and fun. We strongly believe in a customer-centric, design-first approach to our product. We move FAST but don’t skip the details. We’re data-driven, believe in having a strong bias for action and implement a first-principles approach whenever possible. As one of the first members of the team at Dutchie, you'll also have a great chance to play a foundational role in the company and shape our culture from the ground up.
