Senior Product Designer, April
$120-140k
AI-driven tax software
Posted today
AI-driven tax software
21-100 employees
Posted today
$120-140k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To use smarter tax tech, to go beyond the idea of financial wellness — and help every taxpayer achieve financial greatness.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience designing and building digital products
- Knowledge and passion for interaction and visual design
- Must have a high bar for design quality and be an advocate for clean, elegant, and usable design – you are constantly looking to raise our bar of quality
- Exceptional organization and planning skills
- Experience applying research, usability tests, and metrics to inform design decisions
- Comfort with an iterative design process that includes accepting and acting on feedback
- Ability to inspire and drive end-to-end product and feature improvements
- Ability to think at a high level about business objectives
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to maintain flexibility in an evolving work environment
- Self-learning individual with an entrepreneurial spirit, conceptual thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills
- Effective communication skills and the ability to confidently communicate design thinking methodologies and design direction with senior stakeholders, including founders
- Must be proficient in Figma
What the job involves
- April is seeking a motivated Senior Product Designer to join our Build team
- This role is for an individual who takes pride in their work and is excited by the idea of continuous learning
- You will own decisions and ship flawless end-to-end flows and experiences across our full suite of products — from consumer-facing solutions to B2B2C experiences and internal tools for business clients
- Our team’s focus is to create a best-in-class, human-centric tax experience for everyone we serve
- We pride ourselves in reimagining established paradigms and designing innovative solutions to make taxes work for the people
- This position is fully remote and candidates must be based in the United States
- Lead the entire design thinking process for significant parts of our multi-platform product suite (consumer, B2B2C, and internal business tools)
- Contribute to the growth of the product design function while building and communicating best practices across the organization
- Work directly with our Head of Product Design and Product, Engineering, and Tax Analyst leads to prioritize initiatives to ensure we are solving the right problems
- Ensure flawless, pixel perfect execution across all areas of the design process while keeping an eye on the bigger picture
- Regularly conduct research to ensure we are continuously improving the product experience by gathering qualitative and quantitative insights via user research
- Measure and contribute to business level objectives and key results by ensuring every piece of work you touch is adding value for both the user and the business
- Partner with the marketing team to ensure our solutions align with our users’ voice and the april brand
Our take
Managing tax payments is a highly stressful and time-consuming process, with taxpayers having to track their earnings and calculate claimable expenditures, whilst navigating convoluted tax codes. Whilst tax-paying software makes this process easier, they still require manual data entry and tax code lookups, preventing the tools from being automated.
April provides an all-in-one platform for automated tax filing, aiming to streamline tax preparation, maximize tax refunds, and ensure seamless and on-time returns for its users. The company achieves this by integrating its software tools directly within the financial applications of its users, tracking their earnings and expenditures, learning individual tax scenarios, and ultimately ensuring that refunds are accurate without requiring extensive manual data entry.
Whilst many other fintech companies are developing tools that aim to make tax filing easier, April currently stands out with its approach to integrating within existing software, identifying the implications this has for automated data entry. The company is well-funded and has been investing in accelerating research and development as well as the expansion of its operations. It also recently bolstered its leadership team, in preparation for its next "chapter of growth".
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$30m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$10m
SEED
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- Equitable opportunities for everyone: Own your future. You grow as the company grows - professionally and financially
- Fairness for parents: Don't sacrifice family for career (or vice versa). Our parental leave is top in the field
- Flexible time off: With our unlimited PTO policy you can take time off for vacations, celebrations, or a much needed day of relaxation
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Borodach
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as a Management Consultant for Deloitte. Vice President of Strategy and Business Operations at Team8 from 2017 to 2021.
Daniel Marcous
(Co-Founder & CTO)Member of Ximus, and sits on the Board at Datahack. Experience working with big data for Mamram. CTO for Google's Waze from 2014 to 2021.
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