NEXT Trucking is hiringProduct Designer

Headquartered in “Silicon Beach” El Segundo, CA -- NEXT is a company driven by a commitment to providing world-class service to shippers and truckers alike. We’re on a mission to solve a trillion-dollar puzzle and offer painless freight.

 

Armed with experienced professionals from Amazon, Google, Facebook, Snap, and Salesforce, NEXT is seeking change agents who are excited to make a meaningful impact on an industry driving the U.S. economy. Forbes included us on its 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, and we’ve been recognized as one of Built in LA’s Best Small Companies to Work For and 50 Startups to Watch. NEXT is venture-backed by leaders such as Brookfield Ventures, GLP and Sequoia Capital.

 

We are passionate entrepreneurs, creative thinkers, and decision-makers who will transform the freight transportation industry with modern technology. We create delightful product experiences that enables freight to move effortlessly, solving complex problems for our shippers and carriers.  We collaborate with some of the best designers, engineers, and business partners to achieve our goals.

 

Are you NEXT?

 

 

 

As a Product Designer on the Design team, you will be involved in every aspect of the product process across mobile and web, from proposing initial concepts to ensuring we ship features at a high quality. You will be expected to contribute to all aspects of UI/UX design, including prototyping for mobile and web, interaction design, and visual design.  You will have the opportunity to lead and evolve the NEXT design system. We are a full-lifecycle product design shop. You will own your product from start to finish.  

 

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design of new features and updates from concept to release
• Design user flows, wireframes and visual interfaces
• Build prototypes to usertest.
• Interview, survey, and test users
• Contribute to our Sketch design system
• Seek out creative, design-led solutions to challenging problems 
• Work closely with front end developers and product managers

 

What You’ll Need:

• 4+ years of experience with mobile and web design
• Experience with upfront research (quant & qual) and synthesis.
• Good at solving complex problems and systems and communicating your ideas.  
• A strong portfolio showcasing thought process, ux and ui. 
• A user-centered approach to designing software.
• Experience with design tools, like Sketch, Invision, and Abstract
• Experience with design systems built in Sketch.

 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience at a fast growing startup
• Experience with marketplaces 
• Experience with service design
• Experience with protopie, proto.io, framer, front end coding or another hifi prototyping tool

 

What You'll Receive:

• Competitive base salary + equity 
• Full medical, dental and vision benefits 
• 401k w/ company match 
• Vacation and Holidays