Product Designer, Kantata
Cloud based project management software
Open for applications
Cloud based project management software
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable organizations of any size to successfully manage and scale their people, projects, revenue, and profitability.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a proactive and experienced Designer with a background in enterprise SaaS solutions, with a passion for technology, eager to engage deeply with our customers and stakeholders to contribute hands-on, bringing problem-solving and creative skills to deliver measurable results and foster innovation
- Strong creative and design skills, able to translate complex customer requirements into designs and flows
- Strong demonstration skills, ability to tell a compelling story and explain design theories to ensure users and associated teams understand
- Strong understanding of software from a usability, functional and benefits perspective
- Ability to pick up new technology and functional concepts quickly
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Professional Services domain knowledge - experience in and a high-level understanding of the processes and challenges faced by Professional Services and Embedded Services organizations
- Experience working with Salesforce in a technical or administration capacity
- Ideally, this candidate will have strong PSA knowledge
- Motivated by challenges, with a passion for innovative design
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment, adaptable to changing and competing priorities
- Strong communicator, enjoy collaborating across a wide range of teams
- A bold individual who thrives on responsibility and driving results
What the job involves
- Kantata is seeking a Product Designer to play a key role in the Kantata SX Product Management team
- This team is responsible for managing the roadmap of change for the SX product portfolio, this includes analysing new requirements, preparing high level user stories and delivering value assessments to drive prioritisation.
- This role requires lots of collaboration with our product managers, content design and engineering teams to design application pages, workflow and content for new features and solutions on a regular basis and a strong sense of ownership and accountability for ensuring the design is innovative, on brand in a compelling way focussing on usability and ease
- Your role includes liaising with our product teams to ensure designs are complete, easy to follow and accessible for end users.
- You will take a lead application page and workflow design during the product development cycle, and ensure consistency and clarity within the product reporting to the Head of Design and the VP Product Management for Kantata SX, you will ensure existing processes are followed and contribute to improvements in the way we work as our processes and technology evolve
- User Research & Personas: Ability to conduct interviews, surveys, and usability tests to inform design decisions
- Wireframing & Prototyping: Proficiency in tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD to create wireframes and interactive prototypes
- User Roles & Permissions: Crafting experiences that reflect complex access control and role-based interfaces
- Front-End Understanding and UX / UI design: demonstrates passion and proficiency in creating pages and user work flow that balances visual appeal and usability across enterprise features
- Visual Design: Strong grasp of typography, color theory, layout, and brand consistency, structuring complex features and workflow in a way that’s intuitive and scalable
- Design Systems: Ability to create and maintain scalable design systems for consistency across products
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with PMs, engineers, QA, and marketing teams to align product vision and execution
- Customization vs. Configurability: Understanding where to allow user-level customization vs. system-wide configuration, balancing flexibility and scalability
- Scalability Mindset: Thinking in terms of systems that must support large, global organizations with thousands of users and complex org hierarchies
- Storytelling: Communicating design decisions using usage metrics, user feedback, and stakeholder narratives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Kantata is a business management software aimed at the professional services industry. This SaaS platform has been designed to meet the needs of a modern workforce, providing services such as employee time tracking, project management, and resource allocation.
The company's purpose-built technology includes a suite of features, such as a resource optimizer that helps managers allocate the right people to the right project for the correct amount of time. It also includes a private social network for users to share information with peers in the industry. Kantata already has several profitable tie-ups with essential business software such as Salesforce, helping it outpace rivals.
As more organizations in professional services invest in resource management solutions, the industry is awash with companies all competing for this business. These include industry heavyweights Basecamp, Zoho Projects, and ClickUp. Born from the merger of Mavenlink and Kimble Applications, Kantata is set to see accelerated growth as it focuses on further development of its comprehensive platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2019
$48m
SERIES E
Nov 2016
$39m
SERIES D
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Group Health Insurance with Coverage Options for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Life Insurance
- Voluntary Insurance Options Such As Auto, Home, Legal, and Pet Insurance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Voluntary Commuter Benefit Options
- 401K + Company Match to Save For Your Future
- Flexible Work Options - Remote or Hybrid
- 15 days of Paid Time Off, Plus Two Additional Days With Each Year of Employment
- Sick/Wellness Time Off
- 9 Paid Holidays + Floating Holiday
- Volunteer Time Off
- Top Performers Employee Recognition Program
- Philanthropic, Social, and Wellness Events Through KantataLife
- Reimbursement for Wellness Applications (including Kindle, Headspace, Peloton)
- Monthly Remote Stipend
- Employee Assistance Program
Company HQ
East Irvine, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Roger Neel
(Senior Business Advisor)Former Technical Advisor at The Bold Italic and Director Strategic Partner Solutions at InQuira. BA in Economics and Computer Science from Cornell.
Ray Grainger
(Executive Chairman & Founder)Former EVP Global Services and Strategic Partnerships at InQuira and Global Managing Partner at Accenture. BSc in Engineering at Harvey Mudd College.
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