Senior Product Designer, manara
Tech-talent training & recruitment platform
Job no longer available
Tech-talent training & recruitment platform
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
1-20 employees
Company mission
To unlock the human potential of the Middle East and North Africa.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership: You don’t see Human-Centered Design as a buzzword, you live to create a product design that resonates with your audience at their core, and draws them into the experience. You are a confident Senior Product Designer and will lead the user experience (not just individual features) from conception to launch. You love learning, are open to feedback, and can quickly adapt. You thrive working in a startup environment where there is constant change, and can get things done efficiently and accurately with little supervision
- User Experience: You have a strong passion for understanding users' needs and creating elegant and intuitive experiences that delight them. You possess the ability to turn abstract ideas into functional and valuable designs, and have experience defining success metrics to continuously improve the user experience. Your expertise in bridging the gap between technology and design will be crucial as you establish UX patterns across the product
- Visual Design: You have a keen eye for detail and an exceptional talent for creating visually stunning designs. Your expertise in typography, desktop/mobile UI, color, layout, iconography and aesthetic sense, and how they impact product function, is unmatched. You have experience using design tools such as Sketch, Zeplin, InVision, Figma, or other UX/UI design tools and have a deep understanding of the latest UX/UI trends. As our first designer, you will also establish the UI style guide and component system
- Community Expertise: You have a deep understanding of what makes communities and social networks stick, and have experience working at companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, Stack Overflow, Udacity, or other community and edtech platforms. Your expertise in this area will be invaluable as you help to establish features that will empower the top tech talent in the Middle East & North Africa to support each other and reach their dream jobs. With your deep understanding of human behavior and your ability to hit the ground running, you will be a critical asset in our mission to build the top tech talent community in the region
Desirable
- Management: You have management skills or want to develop them. As our design team grows, you’d like to establish its culture & manage other designers
- Remote: You have experience working on effective remote teams & thrive in such environments. You work well across time zones (e.g., you communicate effectively via asynchronous oral & verbal channels)
- Passion for Manara’s mission of creating a community that unlocks the full potential of top tech talent in MENA (with a focus on Palestine & women)
What the job involves
- As our first Senior Product Designer, you will be deeply involved in the product development process, making strategic and tactical UX decisions related to design and usability as well as features and functions
- Our tech product’s mission is to provide value as a standalone solution which:
- Teaches non-traditional candidates how to do behavioral interviews & write resumes
- Supports them with their job hunt so they know how to conduct it
- Builds a community of the top talent in the Middle East & North Africa so they can inspire & support each other
Our take
The tech sector has a problem: after years of rapid growth it is becoming difficult to access talent, whether locally or remote. At the same time investments in education across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have yielded a large cohort of computer science and software engineering graduates, but due to the undeveloped local job market unemployment is shockingly high. Menara exists to bring these two groups together - allowing startups to access vetted talent, and equipping that talent with the confidence and skills needed to succeed in the tech sector.
Manara provides a 4-month training course to prepare its candidates for the European and US markets, landing 80% of its alumni with tech jobs or allowing them to increase their salary by 300%. But they are not the only startup to have noticed the untapped potential of the MENA talent pool, and face competition from regional edtech firms Englease, Abwaab and almentor.net. However, Manara's focus on women, who make up the majority of qualified candidates, and are also the most heavily unemployed, is both socially beneficial and likely to give it an edge.
Manara secured significant investment in a seed funding round led by Stripe and the founders of LinkedIn and Y Combinator. With it, the company has been scaling up its job and placement program whilst also developing a self-service platform to support its candidates. If you're looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing company which is making a social impact, Manara might be one to keep firmly in mind.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2022
$3m
SEED
Sep 2021
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $3.2m
Company HQ
Elmwood, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Iliana Montauk
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was a Senior Project Manager in Talent at Upwork. Before that was a Product Manager at Varo Money.
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