Senior Product Designer

About the company

At Squadformers, our mission is to accelerate startups with meaningful missions, helping them be resilient, grow, and create a lasting impact by providing subscription-based access to elite product and engineering teams. We build tight-knit communities of aligned, mission-driven people who create meaningful software that makes a positive impact in the world.Our internal team members have the chance to work with like-minded top talent in a collaborative environment, offering community, learning opportunities, and meaningful missions. Our core values guide us in this mission:

• People First: We value our people over profit. We take good care of our team, our partners, our families, and we don't burn out our employees.
• Trust the Squad: We're better together, and trust one another to figure it out. We ask for advice, and we grow faster together. We seek collaboration and camaraderie, empower one another, and assume good intentions.
• Simplify and Go: We believe simple is beautiful — when it comes to products, code, design, and process. If it's new, we make it small. If it's complex, we simplify.
• Find the Flow: We believe flow and momentum helps us feel better and move faster. So we go out of our way to create it, by working when, how and where it fits us best. We focus on a few things and do them well.
• Always Be Learning: We're curious, to a fault. We ask a million questions. We're humble and always growing.

About this role

As a Senior Product Designer, you will collaborate closely with cross functional teams - product managers, developers, QA Engineers and the like - to tackle complex workflows, involving a wide array of users and various touchpoints. You will tap into your design acumen to find innovative ways to help our clients streamline their work, unlock their creative capabilities and meet/exceed user expectations. In this role, you'll have the opportunity to drive the visual and interaction identity for our clients, as well as design and launch a wide range of product experiences from concept to implementation. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of systems thinking, visual craft, and user empathy—and who finds deep fulfillment in collaborating with a high-trust, low-ego team to bring thoughtful products into the world.

What you'll be doing:

• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, QA, and clients to shape product direction and align on meaningful outcomes
• Advocate for the user and drive a holistic UX vision that inspires pushing beyond the status quo.
• Lead with empathy and research. Conduct qualitative and quantitative discovery to ground product decisions in real user needs
• Create simple, intuitive product experiences for complex data insights and workflows
• Advocate for a consistent design language and cohesive product identity across features and experiences
• Visually articulate product direction while producing low and high-fidelity design, mockups, prototypes, wireframes, visuals and user flows that guide cross functional team (developers, product managers, QA, etc.) throughout the development lifecycle

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of Product Design work experience
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with a passion for creating solutions for real-world design challenges
• Deep understanding of complex workflows designed to scale across diverse, global teams
• Experience with design thinking practices
• Ability to manage detailed projects with tight timelines
• Proven successful product launches that drove meaningful impact to the business
• Ability to rapidly ideate and produce multiple UX/UI concepts
• Experience working directly with stakeholders to drive consensus and value add
• Ability to clearly articulate concepts as well as evangelize their benefits
• Experience working in continuous delivery environments while being able to deliver quality work in a fast-paced, fun environment
• A passion for your work and designing products that meet or exceed expectations
• You are a great communicator, both written and verbal
• Self-starter, team player and independent — you can manage yourself efficiently
• A degree is not required
• We value diversity and will review any candidate, within the US, Mexico, Canada, even South America, as long as you can commit to working in the PST time zone (or close to it)
• Please include a link to your portfolio or Dribble account.

Salary: $110-170k DOE and location

Please note that this is an evergreen posting. We're always looking to connect with great candidates for this role, and while there may not be an immediate opening, we'll review applications on a rolling basis and reach out as opportunities arise. We welcome candidates seeking FTE, contractor, or fractional roles.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation

• 100% remote work

• Internal company events like meditations and yoga

• Most of our positions are flexible for 1099 or W2 positions. If you are a W2 employee, we offer the following benefits:

• Generous PTO accrual

• Paid holidays

• Parental leave

• FSA and HSA

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, with options for Life insurance and more