Staff Product Designer, Blank Street
Contractor
$80—$115 USD per hour
2-3 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
Coffee chain
Be an early applicant
Coffee chain
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$80—$115 USD per hour
2-3 days a week in office (Brooklyn, NY)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To reimagine local commerce to better serve their customers, neighborhoods, and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree preferred, with multidisciplinary background such as psychology, computer science, information sciences, human/computer interface design or commerce/business
- Experienced, innovative and forward-thinking designer who can demonstrate leadership of medium-scale projects from concept to completion—approach, design strategy, systems, and implementation
- Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and tokens with engineers
- Proven interpersonal skills, stakeholder relation skills, and ability to work in a team environment
- Strong storytelling with excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills
- High proficiency in the use of tools such as Figma and Principle as well as Adobe Creative Suite, Keynote, and Google Slides
- Minimum 7-8 years of experience in a product design, user experience, or equivalent role
- Experience creating, managing, and delivering design systems and complex products with development partners
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer Contractor, you will help ensure quality of our platforms by combining a love for systems, a strategic mindset, and design skills across both UX and Visual to deliver stellar customer experiences across our digital platforms
- You are an expert at design strategy, managing projects, and have exceptional craft
- You generate ideas based on a product requirements document (PRD) or brief, sketching those ideas and bringing out of the box solutions to life digitally
- You are extremely passionate about the user experience and are unwavering in advocating for our customers
- The contractor position is a project based and will work closely with the Global Director of Product, based out of our Brooklyn, NY HQ office
- Lead product development process end to end, shaping the design and business strategy from initial concept through shipping and beyond
- Design holistic systems, flows, and interfaces that are simple, elegant, and beautiful and produce detailed wireframes, visual compositions, and prototypes
- Visualize and verbalize complex ideas, rationalizing solutions to team and stakeholders, and help continue the process moving forward
- Manage multiple project timelines and size and estimate new design work
- Partner with fellow designers, product managers, and engineers to identify customer pain points, develop robust and efficient solutions, and to bring them seamlessly to life in the real app experience
- Manage our design system and execute on new feature development across our digital platforms
- We are only accepting contractor proposals that can commit to 40-hour/week
- Contractor should be available for regular virtual meetings and collaboration with the team
Application process
- Please provide a link to your online portfolio as well as any released products or experiences you have contributed to
Our take
More people deserve great coffee and Blank Street strives to make this possible. Blank Street’s formula involves technology enabled, micro-footprint brick-and-mortar spaces which operate at a cheap price meaning they can produce excellent coffee, also, at a reasonable price.
What started as one electric-powered coffee cart in 2020 has expanded to over 50 locations across New York City, Boston and London. Blank Street wants to serve coffee cheaper than Starbucks but tastier than Dunkin’ Donuts – its main competitors – and has done so with automation, specifically Eversys espresso makers that can produce 700 drinks an hour.
The chain has received mighty financing, including from real estate tycoon Tishman Speyer as well as from General Catalyst Partners and Tiger Global Management. This brand is certainly making its mark as its growth has remained at an impressive rate, especially following its entrance into the thriving coffee shop market in the UK.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2023
$20m
EARLY VC
Oct 2021
$25m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage. Blank Street covers the full premium for low and mid-tier employee-only plans
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off + company holidays
- Paid parental leave benefits
- Equity
- Learning and development opportunities. We're growing and we'd like for you to be a part of the journey
- A whole lot of Blank Street swag & coffee
Company HQ
South Williamsburg, NY
Leadership
Issam Freiha
(Co-founder & CEO)Spent less than a year in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley before becoming a Partner at Reshape (Fmr. Alrai Capital)
Vinay Menda
(Co-founder)Is currently a Board Member for Eden and Hudson River Park Friends, an Advisor for both Vero Leasing and Archie, an Investor at Sprout, Mealco and MainStreet, and a Managing Partner for Reshape Ventures.
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