Simplify Logo

Full-Time

Product Designer

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

Pylon

Pylon

11-50 employees

AI & Machine Learning
Enterprise Software

Compensation Overview

$150k - $180kAnnually

+ Equity

Junior, Mid

San Francisco, CA, USA

Located in (or will relocate to) San Francisco and excited about working in-person.

Category
Product & UX/UI Design
UI/UX & Design
Required Skills
UI/UX Design
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Located in (or will relocate to) San Francisco and excited about working in-person
  • Very organized and hard working and *fast*
  • An interest in tinkering with the product and suggesting improvements
Responsibilities
  • Within your first 7 days, hand off designs to engineering
  • Dig into and understand customer problems/feedback
  • Collaborate with product and engineering throughout a project (no waterfall here)
  • Navigate both the problem and solution space with cofounders and peers (we do not have product managers)
  • Communicate differing opinions and make/facilitate constructive decisions
  • Think through the broad user flows for new features
  • Generate high fidelity mocks and think through UI/UX
  • Build up the design system alongside Wendy and engineering partners
  • Validate design choices with analytics

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$20.1M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The significant Series A funding round provides Pylon with the financial resources to expand its platform and accelerate growth.
  • Pylon's specialized focus on Slack integration can attract a dedicated user base among businesses that rely on Slack for customer interactions.
  • The addition of experienced board members like Jennifer Li can provide valuable strategic guidance and industry connections.

What critics are saying

  • The niche focus on Slack may limit Pylon's market reach if businesses prefer more versatile customer service platforms.
  • As an early-stage startup, Pylon faces the inherent risks of scaling operations and achieving product-market fit.

What makes Pylon unique

  • Pylon focuses on managing B2B customer conversations specifically within Slack, a niche that is not widely targeted by other customer service platforms.
  • The company's emphasis on unlocking and managing customer conversation data in Slack provides a unique value proposition for businesses heavily reliant on this communication tool.
  • Pylon's recent $17M Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and the addition of Jennifer Li to the board signal strong investor confidence and strategic leadership.