Senior Product Designer
Yardzen
Posted 1 year ago
At Yardzen, we believe people are at their best when they’re outside.
We have a simple promise: help people envision the outdoor spaces of their dreams, all online, and then match them with the right local contractors to bring their design to life. Since our launch in 2018, we’ve helped thousands of homeowners achieve their dream yards, make environmentally responsible decisions, boost their property values and get more out of their outdoor spaces.
We are disrupting the $200 billion outdoor renovation industry. By leveraging technology and creating an innovative online process, we offer a more straightforward, transparent, and delightful design and build experience for the modern homeowner. We’ve been recognized as a Fast Company Most Innovative Company, named to Inc. Magazine’s Best Places to Work, and written about by Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Sunset Magazine, House Beautiful, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. And we’re just getting started.
We’re looking for a solutions-oriented Senior Product Designer to take Yardzen’s product experience to the next level and advance our mission. You’ll create design solutions that drive revenue, increase customer satisfaction, and cultivate innovation across the customer journey. The ideal candidate knows how to align business strategy with human interaction and usability methodologies for a broad audience.
This is a critical cross-functional role that will have a meaningful impact on the Product team. You will work closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing and have significant exposure to senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead product design, UX, and UI strategy and execution across the customer journey across all digital platforms
- Work collaboratively to align the product experience with broader business goals, growth strategy and brand.
- Be an advocate for our customers and users.
- Be able to have strong opinions about what good UX means and communicate those opinions cross-functionally effectively.
- Create user flows, site maps, wireframes, visual designs, low and high-fidelity interactive prototypes for product changes and new functionality.
- Create design systems, modules, elements, and components to ensure consistency throughout the entire customer journey.
- Discuss design ideas and communicate project updates to senior management on a regular basis.
- Partner with engineering in making sure final design files are “development ready” and can be implemented effectively in code.
- Help define product requirements and specifications with the Product team.
- Help drive conversion rate improvements and ideate experiments by deeply understanding prospective customer behavior, identifying friction
- Collaborate and prioritize A/B tests to measure the impact of your design changes and further optimize performance
- Conduct usability studies to identify areas throughout the customer journey
- Test new product concepts and prototypes to validate assumptions and hypotheses
- Create experiences that are ADA and WCAG compliant.
About you:
- 3+ years as a high performing Product Designer, including experience in a consumer-facing retail / eCommerce environment
- Extensive experience communicating design solutions via presentations, wireframes, click-through prototypes and design specifications
- Expertise in user-centered design principles, and best practices for user testing and user research
- Data-driven and know how to monitor success through analytics and metrics
- Track record of driving continual improvement via experimentation and A/B tests
- Organized and process-oriented, with careful attention to detail
- Appreciation for beautiful design and a strong brand aesthetic
- Experience working with Figma
- Great collaborator with excellent communication and presentation skills for both business and engineering teams; receptive to feedback
- Have an online portfolio so you can show us your approach and design work
- Comfortable being the only Product Designer at Yardzen and excited to be a part of a start-up environment
Additionally:
- You believe in the benefits of outdoor living
- You’re energized by playing an important role in driving revenue and having an impact of the business
- You embrace change and lead with a growth mindset
- You’re a real teammate and would be described by those who know you as a genuinely kind person.
- Culture is critical in the early days and we’re looking for goodness and grit.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Compensation range: $100,000-$130,000 (This compensation range is based on Yardzen's good faith estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.)
- Equity into Yardzen
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance are covered at 100% for employees and 75% covered for dependents
- Unlimited PTO
- Wellness, cell phone, and internet stipend
At Yardzen, we’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunities to succeed. We are looking for people that will add to our culture, not just fit in. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, or veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply!
Since April 2020, we're a remote-first organization. We believe work is a thing you do, not a place you go, and we can stay connected as an organization from anywhere. We believe that clearly defined goals combined with awesome people, authentic empowerment, and autonomy create the best results.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or the recruiting process, please contact us at recruiting@yardzen.com.
Yardzen is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Yardzen is registered, you will not be eligible for employment.