Product Designer
San Francisco /
Engineering /
Full-time /
Lever builds software for teams to source, interview, and hire top talent. Our team strives to set a new bar for enterprise software with modern, well-designed, real-time apps. We participated in Y Combinator in summer 2012, and since then have raised $33 million. This year, we're doubling the team in size, and we're looking forward to supporting more great companies like Netflix, Eventbrite, and Lyft.
Under the hood, we're a technology company with a powerful open-source web framework: DerbyJS. It is the first and only open-source MVC framework that syncs all data via an Operational Transformation backend, using the same algorithm that powers Google Docs. DerbyJS is also uniquely optimized to render everything on the server as well as the client.
THE ROLE
Design is one of Lever’s core competencies (we teach every employee design thinking principles during their first week) and as a Product Designer on the team, you’ll lead the way. We believe that bringing well-designed user experiences to the workplace will be the key to displacing the stale and broken status-quo of enterprise software.
As a Product Designer, you will leverage your experience to tackle design challenges across the board. Understanding our users is core to our process, and we prioritize user testing and feedback with customers throughout the design process. We’re looking for a designer who cares about solving problems for users in close partnership with our engineering team.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We’re building a world-class, product-first organization and assembling the right team to begin scaling aggressively. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something impactful and transformative, and will play a critical role in driving Lever’s success. This is also the perfect fit for someone who craves leading design projects that range from feature improvements or additions to explorations with high ambiguity that demand innovation.
THE TEAM
Our Design team is a small, but mighty, group of generalists who have a breadth of skill sets and experiences to learn from. The team is exceptionally collaborative, thoughtful, and passionate about user-centered design. You’ll work with this team to design based on principles and insights, joining our mission to help the world hire with conviction and connect talent to meaningful work.
THE SKILL SET
- Breadth of experience in the product development process, from problem definition to detailed UI and visual design
- Several years of experience collaborating with designers, PMs, engineers, and cross-functionally partnering with teams across the company
- Proficiency in iterating at low-fidelity with sketches and wireframes of workflows and in translating those into high-fidelity using tools like Sketch or Figma
- Ability to create prototypes at various fidelities and levels of interactivity
- Past experience designing digital products and systems and have helped shipped products, ideally in the SaaS/B2B space
- Clear communicator of design work and of rationale behind it that is backed up with user research or data
- Self starter who can work through ambiguity
Lever is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
