Senior Product Designer, Speechify
AI text-to-speech reader
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AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You can demonstrate work that includes research, discovery, prototyping, and delivery of consumer-facing products across multiple platforms
- Product thinking: You understand strategy and can articulate what and why as equally as how. You embrace analytics and work side-by-side with PMs to pinpoint key opportunities
- Customer-centricity: You’re comfortable talking with customers and know how and when to use their feedback in the design process
- Collaboration: You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated PMs, engineers, and execs
- Craft: You’re skilled at typography, information design, and micro-interactions. You’re curious about audio. You understand what’s feasible in iOS, Android, and the browser
- Communication: You’re articulate and able to explain your ideas at various resolutions. You ask just as many questions as you answer. Your writing reflects the same attention to detail as your design
- Focus: We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
- Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status
What the job involves
- Pitch, prototype, test, build, ship, and refine new features
- Refine our UX/UI patterns across our iOS and Android apps
- Rethink our onboarding and core user flows
- Influence the product roadmap
- Refine our process and help shape the design org
Application process
- Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply
- And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn
Our take
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension make it easy for users to listen to emails, text documents, e-books, PDFs, online blogs, and articles in a variety of voices, languages, and speeds.
Text-to-speech technology has been fraught with performance issues for a long time, though in recent years this has begun to change for the better. Products like Amazon Polly, Linguatech Voice Reader, and Natural Reader have made real inroads on this front. What may set Speechify apart, however, is the insight of founder Cliff Weitzman, who built the app to help people with dyslexia, ADHD, vision impairments and other learning difficulties.
The company’s future growth may depend largely on who it targets and how it does so. Thus far it’s been mostly branded as a learning assistant, lauded by parents, teachers and adult users with reading disabilities. This niche approach is interesting and offers a potentially large market in the education sector. However, the technology also has mainstream appeal, with the potential to be branded as a productivity booster or multi-tasking assistant.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Leadership
Cliff Weitzman
(CEO)Having studied at Brown University, Cliff founded YumPass, CellArmor, and BoardBrake before working as a Software Engineer at WeMap and StarterPack. In 2018, they founded Speechify, serving as the CEO since.
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