Overview

We are looking to hire a lead product designer for Wherobots Cloud. The ideal candidate will be responsible for architecting, designing, and optimizing all UX journeys in Wherobots. Through development of the Wherobots UX, they will make it significantly easier for Wherobots customers to innovate using geospatial data.

Wherobots is backed by experienced venture firms – Felicis, Wing Venture Capital and Clear Ventures. Our growth will mostly be product led, where the capabilities and user documentation enables a fully self-service experience across different customer profiles. We have usage and high interest across a variety of industries and use cases, including well known banking, map making, and insurance organizations. Wherobots supports a hybrid working environment, where teams gather in the San Francisco and Bellevue offices 2-3x per week. 

Opportunity

The needs of Wherobots personas are oftentimes best served through an online user experience streamlined to help customers accomplish their task at hand. But persona development, user and admin research, and a strong product vision are required to architect a simple and complete UX the personas desire. Wherobots is a cloud-native platform designed to make spatial data easy to utilize at any scale. It's a powerful platform, designed for data engineers and scientists alike, and we’re rapidly building new capabilities to serve new use cases and personas. So it's critical to maintain high standards for our user journeys as Wherobots evolves. In this role, you’ll establish UX standards, define the needs of personas using data and customer feedback, shape product investments, and continually improve our UX to grow the user base as a result of simple, complete, and elegant product design. 

Our mission is to make it easy for our customers to utilize geospatial data. And in pursuit of this mission, botsters will make a difference to business, science, societies, and Earth. If this mission, team, and this role excites you, we would love to hear from you. Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Own the UX design, its architecture, and its lifecycle for Wherobots Cloud

• Work backwards from different customer personas to guide UX investments and improve critical user journeys 

• Architect user journeys and designs using Figma or equivalent UX design tooling. 

• Write clear product design documents and narratives that influence investments and decisions based on your research. 

• Collaborate with third parties to build integrations that improve our critical user journeys

• Be a face of Wherobots through publicly visible channels (presentations, blogs, meetings, conferences)

• Elevate developer productivity through UX design

• Create a unified product experience

• Use data, KPIs, and mechanisms to drive continuous improvement at-scale

• Be a strong engineering partner and the voice of the customer

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience for a B2B cloud or SAAS company

• Evidence of strong verbal, and written english communication

• Has delivered exceptional results through product design investments they shaped

• Familiar with geospatial data and common visualization solutions like as kepler.gl

• Strong track record of influencing investments on behalf of customers to drive growth and ease of use for a technical product

• Experience working directly with data scientists, developers, and/or admins to understand their objectives, challenges, and preferences

• Has shown success delivering simple and unified product experiences 

Compensation and benefits

Wherobots offers competitive compensation, equity, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is $150k-$225k per year.

Although we aim to establish a primary product presence in the Seattle area, we are open to candidates from the San Francisco bay area. Please note that the base pay range is a guideline and for candidates who receive an offer, the base pay, and final title of role, will vary based on factors such as work location, seniority, skills, and experience of the candidate.

Wherobots provides a competitive benefits package to all full-time employees, including 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance, access to a 401(k) plan with up to 5% of employee contributions 100% matched by Wherobots, and unlimited PTO.

About Wherobots

Wherobots was founded by the original creators of Apache Sedona to build the first fully-managed, highly scalable spatial cloud and analytics platform. Spatial, location-enabled, and satellite imagery data is quickly becoming a critical and valuable source for insights in a broad array of industries, from logistics and insurance to financial or climate tech companies.

Everything in a multi-dimensional space has a spatial element to it. Yet building intelligence of how assets or features of interest perform or change across space and time, was hard. It's hard because data, and traditional big-data engines and cloud products are not optimized for spatial analytics. Solving problems like “where should I place a [thing] to minimize [waste/costs] and optimize profits”, or “what logistical changes can we make to minimize our carbon footprint” were once difficult and costly problems to solve. Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud, makes spatial problems easy to solve, at petabyte scale. The planet, and our customers will benefit from Wherobots' role in democratizing spatial intelligence.