Lead Product Designer

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 Cloud. Through development of the Wherobots Cloud UX, they will make the value propositions of Wherobots more accessible, and its features and products easier to use for all personas. 

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 different industries and use cases, including well known banking, map making, and insurance organizations. Wherobots supports a hybrid working environment, where teams gather in our San Francisco, CA, and Bellevue, WA offices 2-3x per week. 

Opportunity

Wherobots is a cloud-native platform designed to make spatial data easy to utilize. It’s a powerful platform, designed for data engineers and scientists alike, and we’re rapidly building new capabilities to serve new use cases. 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, complete user experience end users desire. It is therefore critical to maintain high standards for our user journeys and avoid complexity creep. In this role, you’ll establish UX standards, define the needs of personas using data and customer feedback, ideate and design our core product experience, 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 from customer personas to guide UX investments and improve critical user journeys 

• Architect user journeys 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 developer experience through UX design

• 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 common geospatial 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 $175k-$250k 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.