Product Design Lead, Collective
$185-215k
+ Equity
Back-office platform for self-employed people
Open for applications
Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$185-215k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- 6 - 8+ years of experience as a Product Designer
- Demonstrated impact on product strategy and customer experience in previous roles, preferably within Fintech or Consumer Tech
- Outstanding UX capabilities and strong visual design competency, including visual, UI/UX, copy writing and systems-design
- Experience with and a high bar for visual polish and intuitive, simple design patterns
- Passion for turning complex problems into simple & engaging solutions
- Proven ability to leverage AI/ML tools (e.g., generative AI, automated testing) to enhance the speed and quality of the design process
- Innate understanding of the end-to-end design process - from identifying customer needs and pain points to delivering exceptional customer experiences
- The ability to apply consumer insights and metrics to inform design decisions and influence the product roadmap
- Strong systems thinker with the ability to connect the dots across the entire customer journey
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a full-stack IC Product Design Lead to join our Design team. A ground-floor opportunity in a design-driven company. Join a hyper-collaborative design team and get autonomy, ownership, and significant impact across the entire product
- You will evolve our design process, own entire projects, and contribute to the development of a diverse team that champions our users’ voices and ships incredible experiences every day
- Deeply understand our customers’ needs, business objectives, and state of the industry to imagine & bring to life paradigm-changing experiences
- Establish a high bar for visual polish and intuitive interaction patterns
- Clearly define customer and business problems. Explore broad-to-narrow solutions with thoughtful designs
- Pioneer the integration of AI tools and generative design techniques into our core design workflows to accelerate ideation, increase output efficiency, and unlock entirely new product experiences
- Ideate, design, launch and improve products to help advance Collective’s mission
- Work with a cross functional product development team (product managers, engineers, designers, operations, sales & marketing) to ship innovative and well-crafted experiences, for scale
- Optimize for execution velocity while maintaining a high quality bar, making tradeoffs between design choices and resources available
- Contribute to growing a robust & refined design system
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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