Senior Product Designer, Otter
$165-200k
Childcare booking and management marketplace
Job no longer available
Childcare booking and management marketplace
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
$165-200k
1-20 employees
Company mission
Otter's mission is to connect parents who need childcare with stay-at-home parents who can care for their kids.
Role
Who you are
- You have over 4 years of experience as a designer and you’ve probably been a designer at an early-stage company, either full-time or freelance
- You love the idea of applying your design skills to help solve problems for your teammates
- You’re also passionate about Otter’s mission to build childcare that works for families and caregivers!
- You believe care work is real work
- You pay attention to detail and thrive in a fast-moving environment
- You are collaborative, proactive, and are excited about the idea of wearing many hats!
What the job involves
- Every day, you’ll work closely with our PM and our engineering team, including our CTO and co-founder, Chas Jhin, who previously led the engineering team at Cameo
- You’ll also work regularly with our CEO and co-founder, Helen Mayer, who raised a $23M Series A from Sequoia as a team of one
- For the first two months, you’ll partner with Kevin Twohy, who has been embedded on our team as a product designer and will transition our design system to you
- You’ll be joining Otter in the midst of a new market launch, inheriting an existing design system and product you’ll be responsible for maintaining and improving
- From day one, you’ll get to design features and materials to help our team move faster
- We follow an operations-led product development cycle, meaning that we validate things operationally before codifying them in product
- This means that, if we’re working well as a team, every design you finalize will get shipped and you’ll get to see it in users’ hands
Our take
The majority of childcare solutions exist as daycare groups pr private childcarers. Out of these solutions, private childcarers are generally considered to be the most personal and desirable childcare scenario due to them having parental experience, but finding them locally can be difficult.
Otter provides an online marketplace for the booking of local childcare, specifically matching its users with stay-at-home parents nearby who can look after their children. The platform allows parents who need local childcare support whilst at work to find a solution that feels personal and effective, whilst also providing an opportunity for stay-at-home childcarers to earn money.
Whilst private childcare is certainly nothing new, Otter has recognized the communal word-of-mouth nature of these services, helping to connect carers with parents who need them through an online marketplace. The company has also taken this a step further through its management system, allowing users and childcarers to manage their scheduling, payments, and logistics within the same platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2021
$23m
SERIES A
Mar 2021
$3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $30.8m
Company benefits
- Equity ownership in the company
- Healthcare - We offer free medical, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents.*
- 7 years to exercise your options - We offer a 7-year exercise window to exercise options for people who stay with Otter for two years or more
- Parental leave - We offer paid parental leave and flexible schedules as you come back to work so you can spend time with your growing family
- 401(k) plan - We offer a 401(k) plan so you can plan for your future, starting now
- Flexible time off - We offer unlimited PTO so you can recharge as you need and take time for the things you love - and we'll insist you take the time
- Dependent care FSA - You can set aside up to $6,000/yr pre-tax to put towards care for any of your dependents
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Helen Mayer
(CEO)Experience as Founder and Chair of First Generation Student Alliance of Smith College (F1GS). Founder of Forward F1rst from 2018 to 2020.
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