Product/UI Designer
Who We Are:
At Flockjay, we are here to empower upward mobility through education and access. Our goal is to create pathways into tech for people from non-traditional and underrepresented backgrounds. We have an experienced team from companies like Airbnb, Intercom, Google, and Teach for America, and have raised capital from the best investors in the industry, including Y Combinator, Serena Williams, and Lightspeed Ventures.
Tomorrow's companies will be defined by how they invest in people. Our team is small and growing - join us and make a meaningful impact. Let’s build a generational company together.
Who You Are:
We’re looking to hire our first UI/UX designer with a genuine passion for crafting intuitive & inspiring UI. You’ll be working closely with our Product, Engineering and Growth team to design new product features. We believe in prototyping early and often so the ideal candidate will be able to find the right balance between form and function.
By joining our lean product team, everything you do has the ability to make a real, measurable impact on our students’ careers and lives, and ultimately change the future of education.
What You'll Do:
- Own the end to end design process for all our digital products (web and mobile) and company’s visual brand identity
- Work with product and engineering teams to define and execute our product design strategy
- Take a product idea from exploratory concepts / wireframes to pixel-perfect UI and design specs
- Ruthlessly prioritize and make hard tradeoffs to ship features early
- Balance many projects simultaneously and thrive in fast-paced, high-growth startup
What You'll Bring
- 3+ years of relevant UI/UX experience, bonus points if at a high-growth startup
- Strong portfolio showcasing user experience and visual designs for web applications
- Proficient with standard design and prototype tools such as Sketch or Figma
- Excitement to take full ownership of product design and ability to design and prototype new and creative approaches to complex design problems
- Ability to develop creative assets for marketing
- User-centered design approach
- Ability to develop creative assets for marketing
- Passion for education and access to economic opportunity for people from non-traditional and underrepresented backgrounds
Life at Flockjay:
- Getting in on the ground floor of an innovative mission-first, people-first company where you'll have the support to pursue your passions
- Competitive salary & meaningful equity in a well-funded startup experiencing hyper-growth
- Health and dental insurance
- Monthly health and wellness stipend
- Flexible, uncapped paid time off, in addition to company-wide holidays
- Work from home (remote)
- Fully equipped workstation
Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Flockjay
We believe diversity is strength & difference is a teacher. We know we'll do our best and most impactful work when we feel we're represented and we belong. We strive to provide the support required to create a safe, positive environment.
We're proud to actively recruit and hire talented people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We believe organizations must build diversity, inclusion, and belonging into their DNA. Those that do so will build better products, provide better services, and be positive forces in the world.
