Senior Product Designer, Blank Street
$140-160k
+ Equity package
Coffee chain
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Coffee chain
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-160k
+ Equity package
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the defining food and beverage brands of our generation.
Role
Who you are
- You bring a strong point of view grounded in research and data, and you are comfortable navigating ambiguity to define product direction
- 5-7 years of experience minimum in a product design, user experience, or equivalent role, with demonstrated leadership on complex digital products
- Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business
- Strong foundation in user research methodologies (qualitative and quantitative), including user interviews, usability testing, journey mapping, and synthesis of insights into product direction
- Experienced, innovative and forward-thinking designer who can demonstrate leadership of medium-scale projects from concept to completion - research, approach, design strategy, systems, and implementation
- Experience contributing to and evolving design systems and tokens in partnership with engineers
- Experience working with generative AI, personalization systems, or recommendation engines
- Proven interpersonal skills, stakeholder relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment
- Strong storytelling with excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
- High proficiency in the use of tools such as Figma as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and Google Slides
What the job involves
- At Blank Street, we’re building thoughtful, beautifully designed experiences, both in-store and digitally
- We're looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our Product Design team to help drive exciting initiatives
- As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the design of our consumer app and internal tools, combining user research, a strategic mindset, and design skills across both UX and Visual to deliver stellar customer experiences
- You are not only a craft expert across UX and visual design, but also a strategic partner who helps shape what we build and why
- You translate insights into actionable design strategies, aligning user needs with business goals
- You advocate for the customer at every stage, ensuring that design decisions are intentional, scalable, and impactful
- Lead the end-to-end design process for the consumer app, from discovery and research through concept development, design execution, and post-launch iteration
- Design holistic experiences — systems, flows, and interfaces — that are intuitive, elegant, and scalable
- Create wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes to communicate ideas effectively
- Own the design of internal tools that support operations, store teams, and other internal users
- Ensure internal-facing products are intuitive and reduce friction in day-to-day workflows
- Plan and conduct user research to uncover insights, validate hypotheses, and inform product strategy
- Translate research findings into clear product opportunities, frameworks, and design directions
- Champion a user-centered and data-informed design culture, advocating for best practices across teams
- Partner closely with product and engineering to shape roadmaps and prioritize initiatives based on user and business impact
- Serve as a steward of the team’s design system, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability across platforms while sharing ownership with the broader team
- Present and communicate complex ideas and design rationale to stakeholders at all levels
- Explore and integrate AI-driven opportunities into the product experience where relevant
Our take
More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.
What started as one electric-powered coffee cart in 2020 has expanded to over 90 locations across the US and the UK. Blank Street wants to serve coffee cheaper than Starbucks but tastier than Dunkin’ Donuts – its main competitors – and has done so with automation, specifically Eversys espresso makers that can produce 700 drinks an hour.
The chain has received mighty financing too, including from real estate tycoon Tishman Speyer as well as from General Catalyst Partners and Tiger Global Management. This brand is certainly making its mark as its growth has remained at an impressive rate, especially following its entrance into the thriving coffee shop market in the UK.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company HQ
South Williamsburg, NY
Leadership
Issam Freiha
(Co-Founder & CEO)Issam co-founded Blank Street in 2020 alongside Vinay. Previously, he was a Partner at Reshape Ventures and Graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Economics & Statistics.
Vinay Menda
(Co-Founder & President)Vinay graduated from NYU Stern School of Business with a Bachelor's Degree in Finance in 2015. And he is currently a Managing Partner at Reshape Ventures.
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