Product Designer, Spot & Tango
UI/UX
3 days a week in office
Healthy dog food delivery service
Job no longer available
Healthy dog food delivery service
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make your pet healthier and happier, simplifying your role as a pet parent along the way.
Role
Who you are
- You are a creative and driven UI/UX Designer with a passion for crafting intuitive and engaging digital experiences
- With a keen eye for detail and a deep understanding of user-centered design principles, you thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation and agility are key
- Your portfolio showcases a diverse range of projects demonstrating your ability to research user needs and industry best practices, understand business requirements, and translate these inputs into inspiring designs
- You possess excellent communication skills, allowing you to collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and executives
- This is the job for you If you want to design significant, meaningful features, work hand-in-hand with engineers as they build and deploy your designs, and iterate to create an even better experience for our pet-parent customers!
- 3-5 years working as a product or UI/UX designer, designing responsive web and mobile experiences across different products and user demographics
- A keen attention to detail and a passion for good design and aesthetics
- Excellent communication skills and ability to articulate complex ideas to technical and non-technical team members, partners, and stakeholders
- Ability to dive into the details with engineers and also synthesize findings at an executive level
- Deep knowledge of the unique traits, features and constraints when designing for both web and mobile experiences
- A strong visual designer and prototyper – you have proven experience designing for mobile, and are well-versed in Figma and Adobe Suite including photoshop and illustrator, with the ability to produce sophisticated prototypes
- Strong sense of curiosity and a desire to constantly improve
- You are a self-starter who knows how to figure things out without clear direction
- You take pride in your work and go above and beyond to get deliverables over the line
- You are based in New York City or are willing to relocate
- You love dogs!
What the job involves
- Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ideate and design engaging new digital experiences on our customer-facing website and internal digital platforms
- Conduct and leverage UX research to inform feature designs
- Build and iterate on wireframes with product team and leadership
- Execute wireframes to create beautiful, polished, pixel-perfect UI designs that are aligned with our design system and ready to be handed off to engineering team
- Collaborate with engineers as they are building products to provide guidance on design vision and update designs as necessary for technical implementation
- Maintain and utilize design system to keep the product consistent across all forms of digital design
- Help brainstorm and design A/B tests in collaboration with product and growth marketing teams to improve website conversion rate
- Create designs with purpose – think strategically about customer acquisition and retention (we are a subscription business) and design with business objectives in mind
- Design and improve a variety of different types of pages and experiences – homepage, landing pages, product detail pages, personalized questionnaire flow, checkout screen, customer portal, etc
Our take
Many dog food options fall short when it comes to providing complete nutrition, but Spot & Tango is changing that. Offering a range of fresh, nutritious meals, the company is raising the bar for pet owners who want the best for their dogs.
Founded by an experienced consultant and investment banking expert, Spot & Tango has a distinct business edge over many of its competitors. And the demand for its innovative approach to dog nutrition is undeniable, fuelling the company's impressive funding success and its first international expansion into Canada.
While the company faces the challenge of competing with long-established, larger pet food brands, it's not backing down. With significant investments in production and the opening of its own manufacturing plant, Spot & Tango is positioning itself to compete - and thrive - in the years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2022
$38.5m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$13.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $59.3m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with company match
- Medical, dental, + vision coverage
- Employee discount on all products
- Dog-friendly NYC office
- Growth + development opportunities
- Paid company holidays
- Paid time off to recharge
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Russell Breuer
(CEO & Founder)Previously worked as a Principal at Nash & Co Capital, and as VP of both Zephyr Management and BerchWood Partners.
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