Senior Designer

We are:

• Creators of Parabol, the open-source meeting app for remote and agile teams

• Backed by top investors: Microsoft, Slack Fund, CRV, and Haystack

• Committed to transparency, honesty, empathy, experimentation, and play

• A fully-distributed global team who value flexible scheduling and travel

• An Equal Opportunity Employer

You are:

• 5+ years creating interfaces for SaaS applications or games

• ❤️ for thinking about productivity and ways people work together

• Experienced in solving ambiguous problems strategically and systematically: framing a challenge, the research, and implementation

• Able to prototype and design in many formats: pen & paper, Figma/Sketch, HTML/CSS, Javascript

• One who prefers shipping quickly and learning, rather than designing for “big reveals”

• An empathetic and generous communicator that lives by, “don’t hate, iterate”

Commitment & Accountabilities:

• Full-time employment

• Creating design artifacts that guide product development: sketches, static concepts, clickable prototypes

• Communicating in various forms: crafting UX design processes, writing proposals and implementation specifications, presenting concepts via video, etc.

• Providing feedback and direction on design

• Validating designs with users

Benefits:

• 💰 Fair & location-agnostic pay:US-based salaries, no matter where you’re based.  Plus: early-stage equity in a well-funded, fast-growing startup.
• 🐙🐱Work in the open: Our code is open source, and so is our way of working. We’ve been publishing a weekly update since 2015.
• 🌞 People-first schedules: We limit recurring meetings to 1-2 hours per week per team, with no synchronous daily standups. We offer unlimited PTO to everyone, and encourage folks to take time off. We also have both company-wide and country-specific holidays. 
• 🌍 Work from anywhere with people around the globe: Our current team stretches from Los Angeles, California to Warsaw, Poland. Work wherever works for you. 
• 🌀 Growing faster through experimentation and autonomy: From peer code reviews to monthly sales experiments, we structure our work to maximize learning. Everyone owns their work and can develop their skills quickly. 
• 🛫 Quarterly global travel: All-expenses-paid company retreats and team retreats. 
• ✨An Equal Opportunity Employer: We founded Parabol to help build stronger teams by empowering members to be their authentic selves. Our company is no exception.
• 💖 Great teammates: An inclusive team of curious and purposeful people on a mission to improve how work gets done. 
• 💪 Health care: For US employees, healthcare & benefits that are aligned with top industry standards.

Learn more about our purpose and benefits.

Even if you don't feel that you meet all the criteria we encourage you to apply.

During our hiring process, we take into account your growth potential, not just your prior achievements.

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