Staff Product Designer
Staff Product Designer
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$ 211000 - 286000
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Job Description
The Role
Pilot is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead design vision and execution for our strategic initiatives. As a key leader within the design team youll partner closely with Senior Leadership and cross-functional teams to define product direction influence roadmaps elevate quality and push the boundaries of whats possible.
Our team is building products that solve meaningful problems for startups and small businesses every day: giving them real-time insights into the health of their business giving them close control and visibility into their books and providing tools for making strategic business and financial decisions that help them save or make money.
Pilots aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business the machinery to constantly improve it and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this by delivering these capabilities through powerful software.
This is a hybrid position with the expectation to work in the San Francisco office on Mondays Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with Product Engineering and Operations leadership influencing crucial product decisions and roadmap priorities to drive our vision forward.
- Lead End-to-End Design: Take ownership of the entire product design process ensuring seamless and delightful interactions across all touchpoints within your product and service areas.
- Steward Our Design System: Develop and champion our design system ensuring consistency accelerating execution and maintaining the highest quality standards.
- Optimize Design Operations: Establish scalable design operations fostering efficient collaboration processes and tooling that support rapid execution without ever sacrificing quality.
- Champion Research-Informed Design: Lead the charge on research-informed designthrough user interviews testing and prototypingto drive truly intuitive data-backed experiences that resonate with our users.
- Uphold Design Excellence: Maintain unparalleled excellence in visual and interaction design encompassing information architecture visual hierarchy accessibility and thoughtful layout.
About You
Our ideal candidate is deeply curious highly analytical and genuinely team-oriented possessing the following essential qualifications and skills:
- Experience: 7 years of impactful experience in product/UX design or a related field.
- Domain Fit: Previous experience with accounting finance tax tools small business SaaS or a background in founding/designing within early-stage product environments is highly preferred.
- Strategic & Systems Thinking: You possess an innate ability to see designs transformative role across the product platform the broader business and the intricate user journeysimplifying complexity with remarkable clarity.
- Design Craft: A profound grounding in detailed visual and interaction design expert-level prototyping in Figma and a natural inclination for systems thinking.
- Business Acumen: You deeply understand how exceptional design directly drives key product metrics elevates customer satisfaction and ultimately achieves impactful company outcomes.
- Soft Skills: You are inherently collaborative a natural communicator insatiably curious genuinely humbleand possess a natural talent for influencing effectively across diverse functions.
About Pilot
Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. Pilot provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts - which Pilot hires as full-time U.S.-based employees - who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing banking expense and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers Pilot delivers accurate consistent bookkeeping and financial management and tax services that give entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business.
Pilot has over 2000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia Index Ventures Stripe Bezos Expeditions and Whale Rock. Our investors also include a long list of world-class entrepreneurs including Patrick and John Collison Drew Houston and Diane Greene. Our most recent funding round doubled our valuation to $1.2 billion Meet Fintechs Newest Unicorn.
Why Pilot
- We invest in our employees development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers
- The opportunity to join a seasoned founding team that has led companies through two prior successful startups and acquisitions (by Oracle and Dropbox).
- Flexible vacation/time-off policy
- All federal holidays are observed
- Competitive benefits package including wellness benefits such as Modern Health Headscape One Medical Aaptiv and Rightway
- Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents 100% pay for 12 weeks
- 401(k) plan
The base pay range target for the role seniority described in this job description is $211000 - $286000 in San Francisco CA. Final offer amounts depend on multiple factors such as candidate experience and expertise geographic location total compensation and market addition to cash pay full-time regular positions are eligible for equity 401(k) health benefits and other benefits; some of these benefits may be available for part-time or temporary positions.
Pilot commits to provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment as well as equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories consistent with legal requirements. You may view all of Pilots recruiting notices here including our EEO policy recruitment agency policy recruitment scam notice and important E-Verify information.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
