Senior Product Designer

at  Placerai

ABOUT PLACER.AI:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, Placer has reached $100 million in ARR (a “Centaur”) in 2024 within 6 years of launching the Placer platform. We crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” in 2022.
Placer’s A.I. based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, Placer has accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.
Our platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. Placer has grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more.
Named one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, Placer.AI is proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture. Is this the type of place that would excite you? If so, we’d love to talk to you!

SUMMARY:

We’re on the hunt for a skilled Product Designer to level up our user experiences for cutting-edge products. If you’re tuned into user needs, workflows, and challenges, and have a knack for creating clean, functional UI designs, we want you!
You’ll be owning end to end design and UX of our platform’s Mapping and GIS products, while You’ll be collaborating with our product managers and UX team to craft engaging User Experiences for our dynamic products. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and love tackling UX challenges, come join us and make an impact!

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4+ years of Design experience
• 2-3 years as a User Experience designer in a product team
• Portfolio of real client product UX-UI designs
• Exceptional design skills and attention to detail, typography, and color
• Ability to create concepts, pixel-perfect visual design mocks, and prototypes
• Experience in working with and contributing to a company design system
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills - able to clearly articulate your design decisions

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience and passion for data visualization and spatial analysis
• Experience building B2B products with a strong focus on the US market.
• Experience working with Location Data

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborate closely with PMs, Engineers, Data Scientists, and Customers to turn product requirements into intuitive interactions, designs, and flows
• Design end-to-end product experiences (UX and UI)
• Create interaction prototypes for user testing and stakeholder feedback (Figma)
• Design Visualizations to facilitate complex analysis

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Portfolio of real client product UX-UI designs
• Experienced, self-directed UX/product designer with 4+ years of hands-on experience in implementing user-centered design methods and best practices to design impactful solutions to challenging problems.
• Confident in working in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills in order to clearly articulate design decisions
• Excellent visual design skills with a proven track record in all aspects of product design, including UI design, data visualization, user flows, layout strategies, responsive design, and more
• Exceptional attention to detail, typography and color, and ability to create concepts, pixel-perfect visual design mocks while maintaining a coherent UI language
• Strong UX design skills with experience in design thinking methods, user research, persona development, conceptual models, information architecture, wireframing and prototyping
• Experience in iterative design processes, constant sketching, showcasing work-in-progress, validating with data and customers, iterating, and improving
• Experience conducting customer research and applying design thinking, prototyping, and conceptual modeling to inform product design decisions