Product Designer, Middesk
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21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the economy by scaling trust between businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in Product Design, with a proven track record of building intuitive, effective interactions that drive product and business outcomes
- A strong portfolio showcasing relevant design work, including products that have successfully shipped
- Expertise in data-informed design, user research, and A/B testing
- A deep understanding of best practices and contemporary design patterns
- A passionate advocate for the customer, with the ability to balance customer needs with business goals in your designs
Desirable
- Experience working with and creating pattern libraries, with a passion for design systems and methodologies like atomic design
- Proficiency in git and front-end frameworks (e.g., ReactJS), with the ability to contribute changes independently with minimal assistance from engineering
- Bonus skills such as illustration, branding, photography, motion design, or other creative disciplines
What the job involves
- As a Product Designer at Middesk, you’ll take ownership of designing features from concept to launch, ensuring they resonate with the needs of our customers
- You’ll deliver impactful customer experiences by driving the end-to-end design process across a variety of our products
- In this role, you'll collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and marketers to craft engaging designs that align with business goals and enhance customer satisfaction
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify high-impact opportunities and design features that address our customers' most critical needs
- Rapidly generate multiple concepts and prototypes, knowing when to apply high-fidelity detail and when to utilize low-fi sketches and quick prototypes
- Balance immediate product design needs with long-term vision, dedicating time to exploring how the product can evolve and improve over time
- Partner with engineering to conceptualize, build, and ship highly usable, customer-loved products
- Leverage data to inform your design decisions, using insights from analytics and conducting usability studies to refine new features
- Own the design process by establishing realistic timelines, managing deliverables, and ensuring projects are completed on schedule
- Help improve and elevate the role of design within the company
Our take
Middesk helps businesses screen, verify, and run risk and compliance checks on customers and other businesses. The founders developed the business after experiencing first-hand the often laborious process of manual identity verification, a process which has proven a pain point for many businesses historically.
This hands-on experience helped land Middesk seeding from heavyweight investors Sequoia and Accel. The company's focus is on businesses with stringent regulatory risk requirements, with a special focus on businesses involved in financial aspects like credit and payroll. Middesk’s focus on this sector opens them up to a growing, lucrative market as more businesses than ever are demanding services comparable to retail banking, credit unions and community banks.
Testament to the value of their offering is Middesk’s recent partnership with challenger bank tech platform Agora Services. The challenger bank sector is taking off fast too, and if Middesk can establish a strong reputation for servicing this burgeoning industry, they stand to win big.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2022
$57m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $77.2m
Company benefits
- Healthcare: We take care of you premiums for medical, dental, and vision
- Unlimited PTO: We have an unlimited PTO policy and encourage you actually to use it
- Ownership: We offer a stake in the company to every full-time employee through stock options
- 401(k): We make it easy to save money for retirement
- Parental leave: We offer three months of paid parental leave to any parent
- Hybrid work: We have offices in San Francisco and New York and also offer the ability to work remotely
- Catered lunches: We offer catered lunches on days that you're in the San Francisco or New York office
Company values
- Be customer-first: Stay motivated by solving real customer problems. Make each interaction meaningful and embrace the path to help our customers succeed
- Be an owner: Identify and tackle problems, take pride in your work, and measure impact. When you find an opportunity to improve the status quo, take it on!
- Act with urgency and purpose: Move quickly and simplify. Solve the problems we have today in ways that allow us to move even faster in the future
- Drive results together: Choose teamwork. Share your opinion, ask questions, understand where others are coming from, and move forward as a unified front
- Embrace the journey: Dream big and be open to taking risks. Innovation happens through optimism, positivity, rigorous thinking, and hard work
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Kyle Mack
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at AnyPerk as an Account Executive and Sales Team Lead, and at Checkr as a Sales Lead, Director of Strategic Sales, and Director of Solutions. They have served as a Scout at Sequoia Capital since 2020.
Kurt Ruppel
(Co-Founder)They studied Cognitive Science at Berkeley before working as a Software Engineer at multiple companies, including Zendesk.
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