Product Designer
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Were looking for a Product Designer to join Recentives core product and engineering this role youll own the end-to-end design of key Recentive products with a constant focus on delivering intuitive elegant and impactful experiences for our customers. Youll collaborate closely across teams to ensure user needs business goals and technical constraints come together seamlessly. You believe great design is equal parts craft empathy and clarityand you understand that your work doesnt endbut is just beginningonce designs ship and meet real users.
Key Responsibilities
- Storytelling Through Design:
At the end of the day you understand that products are only as valuable as the experiences our customers have using them. You synthesize research feedback and business context into clear design solutions that guide users effortlessly through complex workflows. Once thats done you help the team understand why the design worksusing artifacts rationale and shared language to align everyone around the user experience. - Designing with Intent:
You leave your ego at the door and dont design for trends or visual novelty alone. You thoughtfully prioritize usability accessibility and claritymaking deliberate design decisions that solve real customer problems. You know our users tell us every day whether were on track through their engagement adoption and feedback. - Creating a Culture:
You understand the importance of transparency ownership and iteration in building best-in-class products. As an early member of this team the way you design critique and collaborate will help set the standard for how we build products tomorrow. - Data-Informed Design Decisions:
Your design decisions are grounded in data and insight. From analyzing user behavior and journey friction to validating ideas through testing and iteration you use both qualitative and quantitative inputs to guide your work. From early concepts to post-launch refinements you stay closely connected to the real-world impact of what you design. - User-Driven:
You meet users where they are and deeply understand their pain points workflows and goals. User research isnt a handoffits central to your process. What you learn directly informs design direction and empowers the next wave of product developmentand more importantly what our customers can accomplish with our products.
Enabling Connectivity:
You work fluidly across product engineering and go-to-market teams serving as a key connector between user needs and execution. You understand that truly impactful design happens when everyone shares a clear vision aligned expectations and open communication.
You work fluidly across product engineering and go-to-market teams serving as a key connector between user needs and execution. You understand that truly impactful design happens when everyone shares a clear vision aligned expectations and open communication.
Skills Knowledge and Experience
- High Integrity Clear Communication:
You know trust is foundational to strong collaboration. You communicate design decisions clearly invite feedback openly and follow through consistentlyinternally and externally. - Pragmatic Design Leadership:
You balance strong design principles with real-world constraints. You focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for customers without overcomplicating solutions or processes. You minimize noise and maximize impact. - Track Record of Impact:
You have a proven history of taking ideas from concept through execution with measurable results. Youve partnered closely with product and engineering teams and understand how design influences adoption retention and customer success. - Self-Directed:
Youre comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful decisions without having every answer upfront. You create clarity through exploration and help the team focus on what matters mostprioritizing effort based on impact and user value. - Enable Others:
You take ownership of your work while empowering those around you to do the same. You understand that great design is a team sport and youre comfortable leading when needed and supporting others so the whole team can thrive.
Why Work At Recentive
- Impactful Work: Play a key role in shaping operational strategies and products with our array of top-tier sports organizations broadcasters and live entertainment companies through applied analytics.
- Forward Thinking: Build analytical systems that blend creativity and rigor combining algorithms optimization and real-world data to solve high-stakes problems.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a close-knit interdisciplinary team that values learning experimentation and cross-functional collaboration.
- Just Getting Started: Weve accomplished a lot but were just in the early innings of where well go. Our new west-coast office in SF is a testament to that growth and will serve as a hub for our growing engineering and product team.
- Growth & Ownership: From stock options to generous 401(k) matching learning stipends and beyond join a company that is invested in your success.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Recentive helps organizations use AI to forecast, optimize, and make decisions with clarity and precision.