Workrise is changing the way hard work gets done in energy. Each one of our teams exists to move us closer to our north star -- “to empower the people who power the world.” The Product and Design team at Workrise is building a platform of products and services to better serve the evolving needs of the people working in energy. Our growing platform enables our customers to do what they do best, with greater efficiency, less complexity and lower costs, while maintaining the highest safety and environmental standards.
Workrise is hiring a Senior Product Designer that will be responsible for defining user problems and designing solutions collaboratively within a product team. This individual must have experience as a product designer responsible for conducting usability studies and designing the UX/UI of a complex product.
Why join us? As part of the Product, Engineering, and Experience (PEX) team, you will focus on the lifecycle of workers, and customers. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide array of stakeholders across sales, marketing, product, design, engineering, operations, and support to build our supply of workers and make sure they’re ultimately successful. The Workrise Design team is open-minded, low-ego, and hard working. We’ve built a reputation for being force-multipliers by introducing new methods and ways of thinking to our teammates. Our designers influence big decisions through a test and learn mentality. Combining careful observation, thoughtful critique, and design expertise, we craft experiences that solve real problems for real people.
** Must submit a portfolio to be considered
What you’ll be doing:
- Collaborate with Designers, Engineers, Product Managers, and Stakeholders to define problems and work together to solve them
- Build a design community with a team of fellow designers
- Translate complex user and business needs into simple, viable solutions.
- Ensures the user experience vision and short term solution are clearly communicated across the team.
- Communicates clearly and builds empathy by telling a consistent and cohesive customer story. Seeks to explain the customer problem. Asks questions and articulates a point of view informed by customer research.
- Work within and contribute to our design system
What you should have:
- 6+ years of experience working in-house, embedded on a cross-functional product team
- BA/BS or Masters of experience and a background in the study of user experience, design, research or related fields
- Knowledge of design methods, innovation, ideation, storytelling, prototyping, design frameworks, concept visualization, problem-framing skills and design principles
- Comfort giving and receiving feedback, explaining reasoning behind your work
- Experience designing and validating end-to-end visuals and workflows
- Ability to lead usability studies and facilitate workshops
- A working understanding of how marketing tools, messaging, and product interaction combine to shape and influence the overall user experience
- Comfort with producing multiple design interactions to run as experiments
- Experience building mobile responsive web or native mobile applications
- Skills in communicating and influencing product design strategy
- Experience working with ambiguity and complexity
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, largely autonomous environment
- Familiarity and experience with standard design and prototyping tools, such as Figma, Miro, Sketch, and Invision
More than a job:
At Workrise you can feel good about supporting our mission to serve those who do the hard work. We recognize that making an impact matters to you and we believe in providing an environment that fosters your growth. We use data to drive our decisions and improve the experience of our workers and the clients we serve. With mutual respect for each other, we continually collaborate to find the best solution.
In appreciation for your contributions, we support you with:
- Working alongside talented peers who will bring out the best in you
- The opportunity to significantly impact the growth curve of an already high-growth business
- Benefits for full-time employees, flexible paid time off, 401k with company matching, medical, dental and vision insurance
Workrise is committed to providing an environment where any and all people feel belonging, respected, and free to be their authentic selves. We welcome applicants of all gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, educational background, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, veteran status, and citizenship. We’d love to learn what you can add to our team.
Who we are:
In 2014, we set out to create a better way to manage and deploy Oil & Gas workers at scale through technology. Over time, we’ve grown to add Renewables in service of the energy industry.
We’re a Series E startup, backed by industry-leading investors Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, Andreesen Horowitz, and Baillie Gifford. To date, we’ve placed over 26,000 skilled tradespeople with over 500 businesses and are poised to grow exponentially.
We’d love to share more through the interview process and look forward to learning more about your journey.
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