Associate Product Designer, Nylas

CA$68-80k

+ Equity

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Figma

Mid level

Remote from Canada

Productivity APIs for work automation

Job no longer available

Productivity APIs for work automation

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityProductivityCommunicationSaaSAPIAutomation

Job no longer available

CA$68-80k

+ Equity

Adobe Creative Suite

Sketch

Figma

Mid level

Remote from Canada

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceSecurityProductivityCommunicationSaaSAPIAutomation

Company mission

To help developers leverage communications data and build features that increase customer engagement, productivity, and retention.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

3+ years experience as product designer
An outstanding portfolio, showcasing a foundation in Typography, Interaction and Visual Design, and Ideation
Highly organized, self-managed and a proven ability to work with a globally distributed team
Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, start-up environment with aggressive deadlines and a high level of ambiguity
Ambitious self-starter with demonstrated ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and execute
Familiarity with proven and emerging tools for interface design and prototyping, including one or more of: Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
Experience partnering with Product Managers to develop the strategy and rationale for features
Proactive and creative problem-solver with exceptional EQ, communication skills, and ability to develop and maintain interpersonal relationships up, down, and across the organization
Bonus: Experience designing for iterative and experimental features
Bonus: Experience with API Platforms and/or B2B SaaS products

What the job involves

We are hiring our first Product Designer to lead the future of design at Nylas
This is a foundational role that will require a thoughtful voice, strong opinions, and a succinct communication style to rally cross-functional leaders
Your vision is crucial to this role- both from input on product strategy, visual and interaction design, as well as using it to recruit a team that scales design with Nylas’ growth
Establish design systems based on data, user research, and intuition to drive ohesive experiences across all Nylas products
Drive adoption of this design system across teams through collaboration and iteration
Clearly communicate and present concepts to the leadership team
Design templates, flows, animated prototypes, sketches, and high-fidelity visuals
Work very closely with Engineering to ensure a high-quality design implementation and user experience
Design and participate in user research studies to validate hypotheses and ensure product usability and consistency

Our take

Nylas provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 200,000+ developers use their powerful suite of tools to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications, resulting in 12 billion+ API requests per day.

The number of businesses using their platform is rapidly increasing due to the Nylas infrastructure generating huge operational savings through more productive, secure, and intelligently-automated development cycles.

The company has remained focused on scaling its integrated and productivity-driven developer experience as well as furthering its investment in disruptive technologies that automate workflows and seamlessly integrate technologies such as conversational AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and cross-system intelligent automation.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

89% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.85)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jun 2021

$120m

SERIES C

Jun 2020

$25m

SERIES B

Total funding: $173m

Company benefits

Retirement plans
Wellness stipend
Paid parental leave: 12 weeks parental leave (maternity & paternity)
Annual learning & development perk
Voting/Election PTO: 4 hours of paid time off to vote in person or volunteer at a polling place
Unlimited paid time off policy
Work from home opportunities
Health insurance

Company HQ

Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Christine Spang

(Board Member & CTO)

Previously worked as Principal Developer at Oracle for 1 year and as Laboratory Assistant at MIT for 1 month.

Gleb Polyakov

(CEO)

Previously Operations Consultant at B&G International for 1 year and Crowdfunding Director at Parallax Creative for 3 years.

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