Product Designer, Switchboard
Remote collaboration workspace
Job no longer available
Remote collaboration workspace
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make teamwork the best part of work.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of experience as a product designer for a SaaS, enterprise, or consumer products company in a lead role
- Strong command of visual, communication, and user experience design principles
- A details person who sweats the small stuff
- Creative and curious approach to everything you do
- Experience designing highly dynamic web and native applications for the desktop
- Deep systems thinker with the ability to abstract and create cohesion within complex information architectures
- Expert knowledge in using Figma and managing a design system through Figma
- Always look to improve existing design patterns while finding intuitive solutions for new features and use cases
- Willingness to prototype, test, and iterate to find the best solution for our users
What the job involves
- Work closely with product management to evolve the vision and roadmap for Switchboard
- Own and evolve the design system for Switchboard as the product matures both in breadth of features and platform support
- Prototype and design intuitive features for the product, working closely with product, engineering, and others to bring your designs to life
- Connect with our users/customers to understand their pain points and to better understand and improve the usability of our product
- Collaborate with our world-class brand and product design advisors as needed
- Work together with engineering to ensure design and UX quality is upheld on every pull-request
- Participate in regular design reviews and engineering demos to showcase your work and to celebrate our progress as a team
- Be curious about data, experiments and finding ways to continuously improve the user experience of Switchboard
Our take
Remote and hybrid work have been the norm in many industries for several years now. Although there has been a boom in collaborative tools to make this work, screen sharing and video conferencing are the main ways that workplaces try to communicate between siloed apps such as Figma or Jira. Switchboard exists to improve this situation by creating a truly shared workspace where any web-based app can be run in virtual conference rooms, allowing users to bring their projects to a shared space.
While competitors in this space focus on text-based chatrooms, videoconferencing or collaboration in a narrow field, Switchboard is the first platform to combine all of these in a user-friendly way. By taking the focus off talking and putting it on the collaborative tools being used, it claims to replicate as closely as possible the atmosphere and spontaneity of in-person working.
Switchboard has recently completed a Series A funding round led by Icon Ventures with participation from Sequoia. It is planning to use the funds to develop its product and to expand its team with engineering and marketing talent. If it has discovered a solution for Zoom fatigue it stands a strong chance of building a significant customer base in the near future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2022
$25m
SERIES A
May 2022
$13.8m
SEED
Total funding: $38.8m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere in the US -- we’re a remote-first 100% distributed team
- Flexible time off encouraged with an unlimited vacation policy (and we're serious about work-life balance)
- Excellent full coverage Medical, Dental, and Vision health benefits
- Support for 401k or other retirement accounts
- Scrappy startup environment with hyper growth potential where you’ll learn best in class skills
- A culture of learning that will take your professional growth to another level with collaborative and thoughtful team members
- Budget to setup your ideal remote workstation
- Fun, remote company events and semi-annual paid for company offsites
Company HQ
Holly Oak, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Amir Ashkenazi
(CEO)Also a managing partner at Proactive VC. Was the Founder & Chairman of Uncommon and a Co-founder of Tookee, which was acquired by LogMeIn. Before that was President of AOL Platforms.
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