Staff Product Designer, Justworks
International
$190-209k
Business operations platform
Job no longer available
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$190-209k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- You have a minimum of 6 years of experience in product design
- You have a track record of building and shipping successful products in an agile environment with demonstrated impact
- You have experience designing for complex products with large surface areas
- Ability to learn the Justworks domains quickly (benefits, payments, health insurance, HR, etc)
- Strong communication skills, including presentation skills
- You have a portfolio that shows us your process, a user-centered approach, and the results
- You are fluent in best practices in platform-focused design and emergent trends to leverage
- You're a problem solver and effective communicator, presenter, and negotiator
- You value the details, but you also seek broad perspectives
- You have a dedication for typography, information hierarchy, interaction design, and usability heuristics
- You know your work can always be better and seek feedback early and often from your coworkers and customers
- You're humble, thoughtful, and genuinely care about the quality of what ships to our customers
- You’re a pro in design tools (like Figma, Sketch, Invision, etc)
- Understanding of SaaS SMB products
- Experience in the human resources space, a plus
- Customer focus - builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Plans and aligns - breaks down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions; stages activities with relevant milestones and schedules
- Business insight - applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
- In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
What the job involves
- Collaborate effectively with designers, product managers, engineers, product marketing, and other cross-functional partners to identify and define product opportunities
- Lead projects through an end-to-end design process: design strategy, research, exploration, interaction and visual design, prototyping, testing, launch, evaluation and iteration
- Run research sessions to uncover customer problems, needs, and mental models
- Facilitate workshops and brainstorm sessions with your team, designers, and other departments
- Create conceptual design solutions for strategic problems and dive into the interactions and visual details
- Present and effectively communicate the conceptual vision and foster ideas to help spread storytelling techniques to inspire the team
- Serve as the subject matter expert for quality international experiences at Justworks, best practices, and the latest trends
- Support design decisions with data and insights
- Collaborate closely with engineers to deliver the polished final product
- Contribute to our internal design process and design system
- Mentor other designers through pairing and your craft
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's 2024 acquisition of the international employment-of-record (EOR) company Via is a promising sign of it's continued strength.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Founder & Directive)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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