Product Designer, Cape
Mobile
Privacy-first mobile network
Open for applications
Privacy-first mobile network
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To reimagine connectivity in this mobile-first world, with privacy and security at the core.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of combined experience, with deep knowledge in both iOS and Android mobile design, and an understanding of producing work that minimizes engineering rework to adopt to the other platform
- Experience and ability to work collaboratively across teams (Product, Marketing, Engineering)
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and practices
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and explain design decisions
- Proficiency in design tools like Figma, etc
- Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and feedback
- Agile mindset, with experience in prototyping and creating interactive prototypes
- Understanding of user research and past experience with user research platforms
- Prior startup experience
- Design Expertise: Demonstrable experience and knowledge of mobile design principles and best practices for both Android and iOS
- User Research: Ability to conduct and analyze user research to inform design decisions
- Problem Solver: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to create innovative solutions to design challenges
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with other team members, including developers, product managers, and stakeholders
- Communication: Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions clearly
- Do Excellent Work
- Respect The Opportunity (each other, the user)
- Overshare
- Bias Towards Action
What the job involves
- As a member of our team, you will collaborate seamlessly with our diverse group of talented engineers and other team members, enjoying dynamic interactions with colleagues from across the organization
- You will play a crucial role in shaping the user experience and visual design of our mobile applications across both Android and iOS platforms, for government, enterprise, and consumer customers.
- Your expertise in mobile design will help us create intuitive and engaging apps that meet the needs of our diverse user base, while establishing a strong and distinctive brand identity.
- This role works closely with engineering and product
- Increase our demo success rate with government and enterprise customers, allowing us to multiply our sales pipeline
- Beat telco benchmarks in consumer onboarding completion rate, resulting in faster growth
- Work with a UX researcher to understand customer needs and achieve measurable success in usability and engagement
- Identify key metrics and features that indicate user engagement and drive measurable improvement in those metrics and feature usage, ultimately boosting user retention and achieving industry-leading app ratings
- Develop a comprehensive design language, including a style guide and reusable components, consistent with our brand
- Reduce the average design iteration cycle time, resulting in faster mobile development overall
- Design and prototype new app features that leverage the latest mobile design trends and technologies
Our take
The massive amounts of data that telecom companies hold on their customers, and the various weak spots in mobile networks, offer many lucrative possibilities for hackers. With massive mobile network data breaches affecting the likes of US telecom giant AT&T, Cape is a mobile network responding with a way to reconcile personal privacy and national security.
Cape positions itself as a privacy-first mobile network, offering 5G and 4G speeds with more privacy. It collects minimal personally identifiable information from its customers as well as offering spam protection, hardened account security and firewall. The network itself piggybacks on existing cellular networks and uses advanced encryption and data protocols to protect its customers.
The company has attracted good investment and secured contracts with the US military because of the network's ability to contribute to national security. Cape only came out of stealth recently, though, and its first steps will be to provide its users with eSIMS. A partnership with UScellular will help grow the company's market share as well.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$40m
SERIES B
Jun 2023
$15.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $61m
Company values
- We are builders, and we choose to spend our time building things that matter. Many of our people have backgrounds in Defense Tech as well as the defense and intelligence community. We build to win
- We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute at a high level. Everyone here has a track record of solving hard problems throughout their careers
- We believe that personal privacy and national security interests are not inherently at odds, and can be reconciled via strong technology
- We believe that companies exist to build awesome things and take care of their people. Our benefits reflect that– top-tier health care, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy (that we actually use)
Company HQ
North Rosslyn, Arlington, VA
Articles
Leadership
John Doyle
(CEO)Currently Board Member at Vannevar Labs. Previously held positions at Palantir Technologies and was a Judicial Law Clerk at Eastern District of Virginia.
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