Poised Lead Designer
Poised
Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago
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Poised Lead Designer
TLDR: Poised is looking for a Lead Designer to bring world-class design expertise including user experience, interaction design, and design systems to build an AI product in the communication space that will create and define a new category.
👋 About Poised
Poised is an early-stage startup on a mission to improve spoken communication. We created the world’s best AI-powered communication coach and platform that can provide real-time feedback and meeting analysis. Our vision is to help the 500M professionals daily on Zoom, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams achieve outcomes through effective communication.
Thousands of professionals from organizations such as Dropbox, Accenture, Lattice and Stanford use us. We are venture backed and we have full benefits, quarterly offsites, and a flexible remote working environment. We strongly believe that innovative and simple design solutions will be critical to creating value for users in this problem space.
⭐ About you
We are looking for a lead designer obsessed with creating simple, beautiful, and enjoyable experiences that delight users and makes their lives easier. You will take complex and ambiguous problems and distill them into elegant and actionable design solutions.
Work Experience
Demonstrated ability to take highly ambiguous problem spaces and creating delightful products.
Extensive track record of shipping complex, high-profile, and high stakes projects
A systems thinker who can easily recognize patterns to develop frameworks and solutions to solve the complex needs of the many customers we serve
5+ years of experience in product design at leading consumer technology organizations
Evidence of strategic thinking across the entire customer journey, and spanning multiple channels
Skilled in using quantitative and qualitative methods to evaluate designs and develop a deep understanding of target audiences and user behavior
(Nice to have) UI competencies with the ability to combine typography, layout, color, and modern user interaction patterns into strong visual communication
What You Will Do
Own the end to end design process for a 0-1 product on the cutting edge of affective computing and human-computer interaction
Design beautiful and intuitive interfaces for desktop and mobile applications
Work closely with engineering and product on research, ideation, prototyping, and testing features that delight users and drive growth for Poised
Become an integral team member and set design culture in the organization
Be hands on and lead the design function as we scale
Culture
Confidence without attitude
Experimentation and bias for action
Passion for Poised mission and the impact we can have on the world
Point of view on AI/communication products
Infinite and curious learner
Open to receiving and giving feedback
Ideally previous startup experience
✉️ Interested?
Apply here and we look forward to hearing from you!
