Smarking (YC W15) is hiring a UI/UX designer in San Francisco
Want to use your design skills to bring a hundred-billion-dollar industry into a new age? Smarking welcomes you!
We are a team of MIT PhDs and Y Combinator (W15) alumni that collect, analyze, and visualize large scale historical, real-time, and predictive data for parking businesses. The parking industry generates $30 billion in revenue a year in the US alone, but still uses paper and Excel spreadsheets to analyze their data. This leads to bad customer service, and millions in untapped revenue.

Starting from messy raw data, our SaaS solution provides beautiful charts and dashboards for parking business owners and managers to better understand their business performance and make data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities:

- User Research: communicate with clients frequently to understand, interpret, and consolidate theirs business needs via systematic approaches

- Product Design: work closely with the CEO to produce smooth & beautiful designs that meet the clients' needs, including user interface, product flow, and data visualization design.

- Product Development: work closely with the engineering team to implement the product, iterate with the clients, and further develop and improve the product.

Requirements:

- 2-3 years real world experience - A strong portfolio that demonstrates your ability to design smooth & beautiful user interfaces.

- Great communication skills to effectively articulate your design decisions to both clients and developers.

- Good experience with user research, fast prototyping, and building mockups using software such as Illustrator, Photoshop, and Sketch

Things that will make you stand out:

- Self motivated to take charge in projects from the initial client engagement to deployment - Experience with data analytics projects

If you would like to know more about our big vision and works in progress, please email our CEO Wen Sang at <wen.sang@smarking.net>. Please attach your resume and portfolio link. We look forward to talking to you soon!

More about Smarking

Smarking is a data tech company that provides yield management enterprise SaaS to the parking businesses. Smarking helps parking facility owners/managements increase revenue and reduce cost with data analytics. The addressable market size is ~$10 Billion in the US and $40 Billion worldwide. In a longer term, Smarking aims to digitize and aggregate the parking supply inventory worldwide, like Sabre and Amadeus in the airline&hotel industries.

Started with 1 pilot project in fall 2014, Smarking now has 14 signed contracts with top notch clients in both private and public sectors covering over 50,000 parking spaces and 500,000 in the pipeline.

Smarking's core team: Wen Sang, CEO, MIT PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Maokai Lin, Chief Data Scientist, Champion of 2014 MIT Poker Bot Competition, former Data Scientist at Facebook and Morgan Stanley, MIT PhD in Applied Math. Diego Torres-Palma, Director of Growth, 5 years of enterprise software sales experience, tripled sales of former employer in 1.6 years, Boston University MBA. Kevin Liao, Director of Customer Success, MIT PhD in Aero & Astro, BCG alumni.

Smarking just closed $3.2mil for the seed round. The round is led by Khosla Ventures (Keith Rabios), and followed by Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin) and many other global investors with market access to Europe and Asia.

Contact: Wen Sang | CEO, Smarking Inc. | wen.sang@smarking.net | 617-816-1666 | 17 Hillview Ct. San Francisco, CA 94124