Product Designer, Fizz
$100-160k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Hyper-local social platform
Be an early applicant
Hyper-local social platform
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-160k
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To revolutionize the social fabric of communities, starting with colleges.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for candidates with at least 2 years of related full-time experience who are passionate about being an early employee and want to help drive our company forward
- Minimum 2+ years of full-time experience in product design, with a focus on consumer-facing digital products (experience in consumer social apps is a plus)
- Proficient in Figma
- Strong grasp on the psychology of social products with an extreme passion to empathize with the needs of college students
- On top of design trends in consumer social products and continuously pushes for new, exciting design solutions
- Strong communication skills with the ability to take and implement feedback from multiple stakeholders
What the job involves
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all design-related initiatives at Fizz, ensuring a consistent and unified design vision across the platform
- Develop a deep understanding of the social fabric of college communities, college students’ needs, and pain points to create user-centric designs that enhance the user experience
- Translate complex product requirements into intuitive, user-friendly UI/UX that enhance engagement and retention
- Iterate quickly based on feedback from cross-functional teams, founders, and user data
- Own the development and maintenance of a design system, including reusable components, patterns, and guidelines
Our take
Fizz is a hyper-local social media app that was founded by two Stanford dropouts, designed to facilitate stronger and smaller social communities online. Beginning with US colleges, Fizz hopes to target location-based communities, providing a private and moderated feed of anonymous posts authored by verified members.
Through this approach, Fizz's goal is to create more entertaining and relatable feeds for its users - opposing the relatively un-curated content of most social media apps. The company has raised significant funding to bring its idea to life, with the latest round cited to support an expansion to more colleges throughout the nation.
However, Fizz has not been immune to controversies. Following rival social company Sidechat's allegations that Fizz was compromising customer data, Fizz has filed to sue its competitor. Furthermore, the anonymous social network market in general has been met with resistance from the administrations of the college it has found an audience at. Alongside clampdowns on campuses, worries concerning a rise in cyber bullying and racist content on anonymous social apps is an ongoing debate. It'll be interesting to see how Fizz develops its product and practice to distance itself from the heat.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.5m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Ashton Cofer
(CTO)Previously founded Keep Alert Technologies, an app to detect and predict drowsiness in drivers, as well as non-profit Styro Filter Solutions.
Teddy Solomon
(COO)Co-founded and was Chief Analyst at Dons Insiders. Was also a Staff Writer and Podcast Host for The Stanford Daily.
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