Product Design Manager, Thunkable
$130-160k
No-Code mobile app builder
Job no longer available
No-Code mobile app builder
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$130-160k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratise mobile app development and empower everyone to build without writing a single line of code.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in UI/UX design with a proven track record. Prior experience in a design management or leadership role is highly valued
- Team Leadership: Strong leadership skills- with the ability to foster collaboration, communicate effectively, and manage a design team in a fast-paced environment
- User-Centric Design Acumen: Demonstrated expertise in UI/UX design with an innate understanding of user needs and the ability to anticipate user reactions to new interactions
- Humble decisiveness: Ability to form strong, principled opinions on design while incorporating feedback from stakeholders. This may include the ability to scale design solutions based on level of investment or urgency
- Continuous learning: A natural curiosity about designing iteratively in a new, evolving space with many kinds of users. You do not need to code or be an art director, but understanding how code comes together or how to put together a brand language will help you define the best solutions
- Desire to succeed: Eagerness to create a world-class app development platform that can be used effectively by a non-technical user. We are a small but mighty team, so the results are highly impacted by how you communicate and coordinate with a team
What the job involves
- As a Product Design Manager, you'll be leading a talented team of designers while working closely with teams from product, engineering, data, marketing and more to shape the future of app development in the world of no-code
- Your work will help ensure that building apps is a joy for beginners and experts alike, allowing them to translate their ideas into apps as simply as possible
- Shape and articulate the design vision for our app development platform
- Mentor and guide a team of designers, fostering their growth and ensuring the delivery of high-quality designs
- Manage workloads, set performance expectations, and provide regular feedback
- Contribute directly to the product by providing both actionable design assessments as well as producing designs yourself
- Collaborate with the product, data, engineering, and marketing teams to align design strategies with business goals
- Make our app builder approachable while still allowing users to create complex designs and interactions
- Scale the design of our offerings to accommodate new capabilities, features, and customizations
- Continue to champion user-centric design principles. Anticipate user needs and envision creative solutions that align with our mission to make app development accessible to all
- Encourage and oversee the application of UX research practices in the design process
- Promote the use of prototyping and design tools to validate and refine design concepts
Our take
Almost everyone of all ages has a device capable of running mobile apps, but the ability to make and deploy utilities and games is limited to those with extensive programming abilities. Thunkable is a no-code development platform that lets anyone design, develop, and deploy native mobile applications without having to write a single line of code.
Though there are already a number of low- and no-code mobile app building platforms (including FlutterFlow, AppyPie, Builder, and more under development), Thunkable's platform allows more freedom to design than competitors. Thunkable is unique in providing tooling rather than templates, emphasising the freedom to build anything with its drag-and-drop interface. Thunkable’s simple yet robust cross-platform app builder has equipped more than 3 million users to create over 7 million apps.
The company’s Series B funding round was led by Owl Ventures and had support from DJ Diplo (Thomas Pentz). Thunkable is focusing on enhancing third-party integration, improving native device functions (like NFC and Bluetooth), and boosting shareability & collaboration. With recent design and accessibility innovations, such as its Figma import capabilities, Thunkable is a game-changer in the no-code space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
39% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$30m
SERIES B
Jun 2018
$3.3m
SEED
Total funding: $33.7m
Company benefits
- Wellness and Training Budget: We value your well-being and want to invest in it
- Work Where You Want: The company is based in San Francisco (with an office), but operates globally, with team members working across a number of cities, countries, and time zones (to facilitate async work we prioritize countries and locations in a max 2h time zone difference from those hubs: San Francisco, New York and Dublin)
- Shared values: Creativity, Openness, Transparency, Persistence, and Entrepreneurialism
- Challenge yourself by acquiring new abilities, interacting with clients, enhancing products, or learning design. We will encourage you to reach your full potential
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arun Saigal
(Co-Founder & CEO)2018 Forbes 30 under 30 (Consumer Technology). Former Lead Android Developer at Quizlet, MIT App Inventor Engineer & Research Assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was a Research Engineer at Aspiring Minds.
WeiHua Li
(Co-Founder & CTO)2018 Forbes 30 under 30 (Consumer Technology). Former Graduate Student Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL).
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