Senior Product Designer

Senior Product Designers at Weedmaps are talented, motivated team players with a deep understanding of user-centered design, and a passion for creating things people love.

In your day-to-day, you will identify, evaluate, and improve critical user journeys, making data-backed decisions about priorities and roadmap. Weedmaps is a data-first company and all projects and initiatives are backed by research and thoroughly tested. You must be able to communicate your ideas with crystal clarity in the form of verbal and written communication, user flows, wireframes, hi-fi comps, rapid and rich prototypes, and proper documentation. As a senior resource you will be expected to understand the business’ needs and goals, and tightly align your and your team’s efforts with those needs. You will also be expected to lead medium-sized projects.

Come join a team of designers and creatives passionate about fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration while shipping industry-shaping products.

The impact you'll make:

Help foster a culture of creativity throughout the company
Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and other teams to identify needs, define requirements, discover solutions, execute, and ship
Keep business needs and corporate goals front-of-mind, even as you design world class experiences
Distill complex problems into discrete components with actionable solutions
Maintain, guide, and push the boundaries of our design system
Prototype and test interactions and user experiences objectively and without bias
Use both qual and quant data and analytics to make informed decisions
Actively participate in group critiques by both providing and receiving thoughtful, constructive feedback
Effectively communicate your ideas at the right time, with the right tools, and in the right formats
Create design artifacts including but not limited to: information architecture diagrams, user flows, user stories, use cases, research plans, wireframes, high-fidelity mock-ups, and interactive prototypes

What you've accomplished:

5+ years of professional experience with end-to-end product design
A strong portfolio showcasing examples of human-centered designs, with clear indication of your specific contributions
Ability to lead medium-to-large sized projects
Experience designing and conducting usability tests
Experience using analytics to make informed, data-driven decisions
Experience working with design systems
Strong work ethic, sense of accountability, autonomy, and self-management
Capable of taking full ownership of the work assigned
Crystal-clear communication skills

Bonus points:

Knowledge of front-end coding concepts such as HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript
Experience creating design systems
Experience with Design Thinking and Design Sprints
Knowledge of and passion for the cannabis industry

Our Benefits:

100% paid employee monthly Medical, Dental and Vision premiums AND 80% paid dependent monthly premiums
HMO (California residents only) and PPO option offered through United Healthcare
Company-paid $50,000 in Basic Life/AD&D (Accidental Death and Dismemberment) coverage
401(k) Retirement Plan: 100% match on the first 1%. 50% match from 2-6% of employee contributions
3 weeks PTO (accrued) and 5 sick days (immediate)
Supplemental, voluntary benefits
Kindbody (family planning/fertility) including up to $10,000 towards cash-pay services
Goodly (Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings) including a company contribution of up to $1,000/year
Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
Voluntary Life Insurance
Critical Illness
Accident Insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Pet Insurance
Paid parental leave
During current work-from-home:
Reimbursements for home office setup and monthly WiFi

Our Culture:

11 company-paid holidays
Catered lunch and snacks provided while working in the office
Snack boxes sent straight to your door during work-from-home
Casual work environment, read no fancy clothes required, but you are free to dress to the nines!
Monthly virtual happy hours
Quarterly all-hands meetings

Weedmaps is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We are looking for the smartest and most passionate people who want to join our team and develop the services, systems, and marketplaces that will serve the marijuana industry in the decades to come. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.