Staff Product Designer, Mobile Design Systems
Staff Product Designer, Mobile Design Systems
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Everyone is welcome at Handshake. We know diverse teams build better products and we are committed to creating an inclusive culture built on a foundation of respect for all individuals. We strongly encourage candidates from nontraditional backgrounds historically marginalized or underrepresented groups to apply.
Remember the uncertainty of searching for your first job First internship second job Does anyone slide seamlessly into the start of their careers Most of us dont; for millions of students every year it feels like a mission fraught with invisible traps no map and the looming prospect of bills to pay. Access to help is not evenly distributed: not to connections nor to information on whats even possible out there.
Thats where Handshake comes in. Our mission is to democratize access to opportunity: to help every student find the right job no matter where theyre from or who they know. Were the career network for Gen Z with over 15M job seekers 1M employers and 1500 career centers coming together on our platform. Students need jobs and career guidance and a professional community employers want to find and make great earlytalent hires and career centers help us help everyone ensuring its not just students intheknow who get in the doors. Were seeking you and your design chops to help make it the best experience for all those involved!
Come help make our design team worldclass to tackle this very tangible incentivesaligned realworld problem. As a Staff Product Designer focused on Mobile Design Systems youll play a pivotal role in shaping our transition to a mobilefirst approach. This position is centered on constructing and refining a robust mobile component system that will serve as the backbone for our product development. You will have the opportunity to influence our strategy and create the tools that empower our broader team to develop faster and more efficiently for the devices our customers use most.
What youll do at Handshake
- Define craft and iterate the companys Mobile Design System ensuring it meets usability and performance standards
- Explore share and implement the newest mobile platform capabilities staying intheknow about iOS and Androids evolution.
- Collaborate closely with your partners both crossfunctionally and within design: research PM engineering analytics design brand marketing to ship and iterate on strategic wellthoughtout surprisingly greattouse products that make real impact for both our customers and business
- Track and analyze user behavior to find areas of friction and opportunities for design improvements within the component and how users interact with it
- Help your team succeed: raise the bar on culture operations and execution of design work including product reasoning systems thinking pixel level precision mobile prototyping ability to facilitate conversations with and present to stakeholders stellar teamwork and mentoring
- Strengthen the overall product organizations ability to experiment iterate and learn alongside your product organization lead teammates; develop wellinformed strategic visions of where were headed collaborate to break them into pragmatic phases to scaffold our way forward
- Inform creative direction and information architecture alongside your design leader teammates and the VP of Design to weave a seamless symbiotic experience across the disparate areas of our threesided marketplace
Wed love to hear from you if:
- Youve created and/or maintained a mobile design system.
- Youve designed and shipped products including mobile and desktop that customers love and can systematically clearly articulate what it took to make that happen from highlevel strategy down to pixellevel decisionmaking
- You know how to roll data research business goals technical constraints and customer needs together into stronglycrafted solutions (mocks prototypes flows); you iterate fast ensure you gather feedback use strategic reasoning to inform your decisions
- You relish using your design skills to bring clarity and simplicity to both process and product
- Youre humble and kind despite your track record excited to keep learning curious about the workings of a threesided marketplace and everevolving team / product surface area
- Extra bonus if youre experienced with one or more of: multisided marketplaces growth design systems B2B
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
