Position: Experienced Mobile Product Designer for SaaS Startup
Company: Cinderblock
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Passionate about a product? Appreciate functional design? Have a point to prove? Climb aboard, and join us as we voyage the seas of the interwebs.

We are Cinderblock, a product company building the world's easiest-to-use job management platform.

In this role, you'll take ownership of our mobile app’s design, which includes evolving a UI Elements kit and establishing design processes that will help facilitate efficient implementation.

Whether you're dreaming up new features, iterating on existing ones, or polishing the user experience, as a product designer on our team you'll play a vital role in the success of our product.

This is a unique opportunity to join a company that doesn't take itself too seriously, but takes its work very seriously. If you're ready to make a real impact on our product's direction, let’s chat!

In this role you will:

– Improve UI components for mobile; visual design and interactions.
– Iterate on new and existing features.
– Work with customer journeys and user feedback to properly understand their needs and help find solutions that solve their problems.
– Improve user experience for core app workflows.
– Work directly with engineering for hand-off and feature implementation.
– Collaborate with our Lead Designer to ensure that designs and UX flows fit the product vision.

**Your experience:**

– 5+ years of mobile UI and interaction design.
– Strong understanding of mobile UI design fundamentals (including animation, iconography, responsive layouts, and design guidelines).
– Proven experience designing applications with Google's Material Design and Apple's Human Interface guidelines.
– A proven case of successfully collaborating with a design and development team using an agile process.

**Your skills:**

- Portfolio with at least 2 cases of product design for mobile apps.
– Advanced knowledge of Figma (including component libraries or design systems).
– Ability to independently prioritize and manage your work.
– Strong written and verbal English.
– Presentation skills.

**Our team:**

We have a small but growing team filled with genuinely awesome/real people. No "rockstars" or "ninjas" here, sorry! 

On the product side, we have an incredible product manager, and an experienced Lead Product Designer who you will report to. On the dev side, we are brimming with talent on both the web and mobile side of the product.

**How we work:**

We use Figma for designing,Slack for communicating daily, and GitHub to manage our tasks.

There are daily design syncs with a Product Design Lead (20-30 minutes tops), weekly product meetings, and weekly app walkthroughs. Most of our day-to-day communication takes place on Slack and GitHub.

Another important note is that we are fully remote because we love remote work, not because of Covid.

**Our time zone:**

Most of our team is on the CET time zone, but our company HQ is on EST. For the most part, you will be expected to be in sync with CET time zone, but there will be EST overlap (up to 3 hours). 

**Benefits of working with us:**

- Paid vacation and sick days.
- Flexible schedule.
- Passionate and experienced team.
- No bullshit, minimal bureaucracy, informal communication.
- The occasional meme.