Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Fleetio as a Senior Product Designer and create intuitive and innovative software interfaces. You will utilize user-centered design principles, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and significantly impact Fleetio's global experiences. Your work will shape the evolution of the design system, ensuring scalable and cohesive solutions. You will be responsible for designing and implementing features, creating detailed design specifications, and collaborating with engineers for seamless implementation. This role requires extensive experience in SaaS product design, proficiency in design tools, and strong communication skills. Fleetio offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise with 5+ years of professional work experience within a SaaS environment focusing on product design and/or user interface design in web and both iOS and Android native
• Proven abilities in quickly acquiring deep customer understanding, demonstrating strong empathy, and effectively translating these insights into actionable steps for product design improvements
• Extensive experience collaborating with engineering teams, including a strong understanding of React and modern coding frameworks, ensuring seamless implementation of designs
• Deep familiarity with design systems, including contributing to, maintaining, and evolving component libraries to ensure consistency and scalability across platforms
• Exceptional command and leadership in visual design and information architecture, coupled with a keen sense of simplicity, deep understanding of modern web UI patterns, and an extraordinary eye for typography, consistency, color, and subtle details
• Advanced understanding of user-centered design thinking and the ability to integrate products/services across a platform, thinking beyond individual screens and considering the broader context of design systems
• Proficiency in effectively communicating design concepts at various levels of resolution, including sketches, low-fi mockups, hi-fi comps, and interactive prototypes, highlighting strong visual communication skills
• Extensive experience in collaborating cross-functionally with research, design, product, engineering, data science, and marketing teams to develop successful strategies and make informed decisions
• Proven track record of bringing projects from concept to completion, showcasing the ability to design and ship software products successfully
• Expert-level proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma, enabling the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes

Responsibilities

• Design and help implement features that ship quickly and with high quality
• Create detailed mocks/specs of designs that follow and extend the existing style guide to allow engineers to build new features
• Drive the development and implementation of global and foundational design patterns that impact the entire platform, ensuring consistency and scalability across Fleetio’s products
• Collaborate with the design system team to evolve and maintain component libraries, enabling cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive and user-friendly experiences
• Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, new interface guidelines and design patterns, investments in refinement, polish and iteration, and insights driven by user research and customer feedback
• Develop deep empathy for our customers and use research to inform design solutions
• Compellingly communicate and present design solutions, across a range of mediums and fidelities, to stakeholders and other product designers, while defending design decisions and incorporating feedback into the design cycle
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering and Marketing teams to solve complex problems through discovery, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into modern, simple and intuitive application designs and features
• Partner with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Design
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach mid-level designers, illustrating leadership and expertise in guiding and developing the skills of others

Benefits

• Multiple health/dental coverage options
• Vision insurance
• Incentive stock options
• 401(k) match of 4%
• PTO - 4 weeks
• 12 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
• Parental leave- birthing parent (16 weeks paid) non-birthing (4 weeks)
• FSA & HSA options
• Short and long term disability (short term 100% paid)
• Community service funds
• Professional development funds
• Wellbeing fund - $150 quarterly
• Business expense stipend- $125 quarterly
• Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
• Monthly catered lunches
• Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks
• Remote working friendly since 2012