Head of Design, Goodnotes
B2B
+ Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
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Top-rated note-taking app
Posted today
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people with knowledge through digital paper and innovations. We're reimagining what productivity looks like through a digital pen and paper!
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of experience in product design, with at least 5+ years in a design leadership role
- Deep expertise in B2B SaaS design, particularly with integrations and unlocking new solutions through them
- Proven PLG experience in SaaS
- Experience designing for cross-platform experiences
- Strong analytical skills and a strategic mindset to guide teams effectively
- Proven track record in experimentation, testing, and prototyping within B2B contexts
- Excellent leadership and people management skills, capable of managing multiple teams and fostering collaboration
- Familiarity with growth and monetization design strategies
- A great storyteller comfortable explaining rationale and getting buy-in from stakeholders on product vision
Desirable
- Experience with workplace collaboration tools, or team productivity software
- Familiarity with account management, compliance, or enterprise-level access systems
- Exposure to design system thinking in multi-role or multi-tenant environments
- Experience in growth optimisation; understanding drop offs, bottlenecks, and closing gaps to reach performance goals. Ability to use data to identify and prioritise small, high impact improvements to make the experience more seamless
What the job involves
- We’re not just adding features; we’re crafting solutions
- We’re talking about transforming how sales teams manage leads, how marketing teams brainstorm campaigns, and how consultants deliver insights
- As the Head of B2B Design at Goodnotes, you will be leading a team of designers across four different product areas of Goodnotes
- You will be driving the design direction, building solutions, testing ideas and creating B2B workflows
- You will be working closely with, and reporting directly to our CEO and Founder, Steven Chan
- This is the role for you, if you’re excited to work on the things listed below:
- Lead and conduct discovery work efforts to understand current workflows and user pain points
- Oversee design solutions that improve B2B user workflows, driving shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates, and better retention
- Identify gaps in the current design process and resources, proposing and implementing improvements
- Drive experiments, prototyping, and testing to validate design ideas and optimize user experience
- Manage and mentor design teams across B2B, Marketplace, Monetization and Classroom verticals
- B2B will be your main focus, while the other verticals will be in a supporting role
- Partner with product leadership, engineers, and product managers to align on design initiative, define a rolling roadmap and long-term direction while ensuring a high bar of quality of the Goodnotes design language
- Help foster our design culture with knowledge-sharing and peer support
Application process
- An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
- A video call with our B2B team lead
- A portfolio review with our Head of Design (Foundation+AI)
- A deep dive call with our CEO & Founder, Steven Chan
- A live assessment with our CEO & Founder, Steven Chan
- A Q&A session with designers you’d be managing
Our take
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking tool for handwritten notes and (formerly) paper-based information. Thanks to its signature vector ink engine, the app delivers a precise and natural writing experience. It can read handwriting (even the worst handwriting) and allow users to search it, as well as convert it to text for easy sharing into other apps or even web pages. Goodnotes also supports importing, searching, and navigation through PDF, PowerPoint, Word, image files, and more.
The platform is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the leading note-taking solutions on the App Store (with over 14,000 positive reviews) it competes with apps like Notability and Paper by WeTransfer. Founded in Hong Kong, Goodnotes now operates across the UK and with a number of new features and acquisitions, its proving a powerhouse in digital productivity.
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Focus on employee wellbeing
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Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Stock options: Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
- Excellent annual leave package + public holidays
- Flexible working hours and location, we're remote friendly!
- Medical insurance for you and your family
- Continuous learning: A learning and development budget or training or courses to build your skills
- Be your best self: A monthly budget for personal growth including books, language/music lessons and online courses
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Monthly wellness budget: Covering gym membership, therapy, massage and much, much more
- Amazing office space in central London and Hong Kong. Your Travel and lunch are also on us!
- Home office set up: Everything you need to create a productive workspace at home. Chairs, desks, hardware, it's covered
- Sponsored working visa with a relocation package to either of our office locations
- Annual team off-site: Get to know your colleagues
- Professional coffee equipment and freshly roasted beans in our offices
Company values
- Dream big
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
- Be user obsessed
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Steven Chan
(Founder & CEO)Goodnotes was created from Steven's frustration with taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. Since then, the company has grown to millions of happy users.
Paul Onnen
(Senior Vice President of Engineering)Paul loves building things that help make people's lives better and they are using this experience to help Goodnotes be successful as we continue to grow.
Minh Tran
(COO)Minh is a seasoned people and business leader who is obsessed with searching for the world’s best talent and building winning teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and passionate.
Rowena Chung
(Director of Product)Rowena leads product discovery and strategy across Goodnotes' product group. She is committed to understanding the users’ needs and enhancing their productivity and experience with the app.
People progressing
Bret joined Goodnotes in 2018 as a Senior Software Engineer. In 2023 he was promoted to a Principal Engineer.
Joined Goodnotes in 2021 as a Senior ML Engineer and is now a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a product team to build an incredible AI productivity experience impacting millions of users.
Cam joined Goodnotes as a Senior Brand Designer and 3 years later became the Global Brand Design Lead!
Rammy joined Goodnotes as a Senior QA Engineer in December 2019, transitioned to QA lead after 2.5 years and again to QA manager after 4 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodnotes
Vivien Ko (People Ops Manager)
- We are a team of c 270, from 39 different countries... and still growing
- We believe diverse teams create better outcomes for users, teams, and businesses
- Learn more about one of our Female Directors https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/rowena-product-manager
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our DE&I journey!
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