Lead Product Designer

Summary

Join Swiftly, a leading transit data platform company, as a Lead Product Designer to craft elegant software solutions for transit agencies. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to design user-friendly experiences across mobile and web platforms, impacting how transit agencies serve their communities. This role involves all stages of product development, from user research and prototyping to high-fidelity designs. You will also contribute to Swiftly's design system and research engine. The ideal candidate possesses 7+ years of design experience, including 3+ years in a senior role, and a proven ability to lead user research and communicate findings effectively. Swiftly offers a competitive salary, equity compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible work environment.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional design experience, with at least 3 of those years in a senior position
• Experience designing products from conception to completion, sharing the vision through design explorations, documentation, and presentations
• Experience leading user interviews, finding root problems over suggested solutions, and effectively communicating learnings to a distributed team
• Enjoy working in an iterative design process, motivated by group and user critique
• Champion and can articulate the value of great design to cross-functional stakeholders
• Have a growth mindset and are proactive about jumping in where the team needs
• Proficiency in prototyping your ideas to help articulate nuanced design decisions
• Have a portfolio showcasing work you were directly responsible for, highlighting the ability to solve complex problems with overlapping organizational lines

Responsibilities

• Work on a cross-functional product team to develop delightful software for transit agency staff
• Design experiences across both native mobile and web platforms, helping customers make sense of real-time data for daily operations and explore historical insights for deeper analyses
• Contribute to overall product strategy through visualizing problems and solutions
• Have a hand in each stage of product development, taking projects from user research, to prototypes, to high-fidelity designs
• Help build a strong design foundation, including contributing to Swiftly’s design system and research engine

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity compensation for every employee
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k with Employer Match
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Home office setup reimbursement
• Monthly cell/internet reimbursement
• Monthly "Be Well" stipend
• Flexible PTO with a recommended minimum
• Flexible work environment
• 16 paid holidays, including holidays in months without US national holidays
• 8 fully paid weeks of leave for child birth/adoption