Product Designer, WorkOS
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APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
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APIs to make apps enterprise-ready
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a toolkit to help startups meet the requirements for bringing on enterprise clients.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ yrs industry experience in software interface design. Please apply even if you have less years of experience, we have multiple openings!
- Experience designing technical products or developer tools. WorkOS is a technical product targeting engineers, so you'll need to understand technical concepts and work closely with both back-end and front-end engineers
- Demonstrable understanding of systems thinking. You'll need a deep understanding of common UI patterns, and which UI patterns map best to a given scenario. Experience working with an established design system is a plus
- Demonstrable understanding of a11y. Understanding how different users in various environments can and will interact with a UI is critical during the design phase
- Experience running quantitative and qualitative research with usability testing, analysis, interviews and field studies
- Self-motivated and proactive about fulfilling design needs across product, website and other collateral. WorkOS has a small (but growing) design team where designers wear many hats and work autonomously
- Working knowledge of modern design tools. We use Figma at WorkOS
- Bonus: experience in B2B enterprise SaaS
- Bonus: technical proficiency in front-end code. Relevant languages include React, JavaScript, Typescript, HTML, and CSS. It's not a hard requirement, but currently all of our designers code, so we prioritize candidates with a technical background
What the job involves
- You’ll be responsible for discovering, defining, and designing experiences that attract and engage developers specifically. We have a lot of exciting new products planned that you will lead from research through implementation
- Lead greenfield product initiatives on the design side
- Help to improve and maintain our existing products by suggesting improvements to usability, a11y, performance, and consistency
- Engage with customers to identify points of friction that may be reduced by improving UI patterns and user flows
- Contribute to our Figma design system
- Contribute to our code design system
- Contribute to our icon system
Our take
The inspiration for WorkOS came from the founder’s previous email startup, Nylas, and the difficulties he faced in crossing what he calls “the enterprise chasm.” The challenge of serving enterprise clients, and meeting their stringent security and admin requirements, is one that many B2B SaaS startups face as they start to scale.
WorkOS steps in at this critical stage, providing a single API driven platform which enables its customers to easily integrate with the major vendors that provide enterprise security and admin solutions. For example, rather than building individual integrations with each of the single sign-on (SSO) providers, a customer would only need to integrate with WorkOS in order to support these solutions.
Enterprise features that WorkOS is providing building blocks for include Single Sign-On, Directory Sync, Audit Trail, and more. WorkOS are helping a whole host of SaaS providers break into enterprise channels, and have been bolstered by substantial Series B funding in 2022. In that same year, WorkOS acquired its first company, UI framework builders Modulz, a deal that will widen the scope of API products that WorkOS can offer.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2022
$80m
SERIES B
Total funding: $80m
Company benefits
- WorkOS pays 90% of premiums for employees and dependents to help keep your family healthy
- WorkOS provides a 3% match of your 401k contributions to help you save for retirement
- Relax and recharge with 20 days of paid yearly vacation. We also offer 12 weeks of parental leave for new parents
- Monthly stipend for gyms, yoga classes, race registrations, or whatever keeps you active
- Monthly stipend for a massage, meditation class, therapy, or activities that enhance your mental well-being
- Outfit your working space with a stipend for equipment that will keep you comfortable and productive
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Michael Grinich
(CEO)Earned a BSc in Computer Science from MIT. Previously worked in the Engineering team at Dropbox, in the Design team at Nest and was the Founder & CEO of Nylas for 4 years.
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