ABOUT US
Connect The Dots (CTD) is a San Francisco venture-backed start-up founded in February 2019 with the mission of revolutionizing the way professional relationships are managed. We’ve quietly raised $20+M from top tier investors while in stealth mode. We have recently increased our public presence and have been selling successfully. Our team and offices are based in Belgrade and San Francisco.
Our next major challenge is to architect and design for scale. The product is a hybrid consumer / business application that builds a behavior-based social graph based on massive amounts of historical emails and other data sources. Managing this level of scale while keeping the experience simple and easy-to-use is a huge challenge.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Either a Bachelors or Masters Degree in a related Design field focused on product design or at least 3 years of experience creating digital products for web, mobile, or both.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
- Proven abilities with cutting edge design tools. Primarily Figma but additional tools as needed.
- Proven level ability to effectively use communication tools. Primarily Slack, email, Loom, and Zoom.
- Proven experience working with Product Managers, Researchers, and both Front-end and Back-end engineering teams.
- Experience working with Researchers to prepare detailed prototypes for testing novel ideas, receiving and iterating based on feedback.
- Proven ability to produce successful design solutions, prototypes, and communicate the results with detailed specifications.
- Proven ability to tell compelling customer-centric stories to convey the rationale behind a design solution.
- Experience working with, maintaining, and leveraging design systems.
- Experience communicating design decisions based on knowledge of the target ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) and their needs.
- Comfortable providing constructive feedback to aid fellow Designers and Product leads with ideas, insights, and innovations.
- Comfortable evaluating competitive products to leverage existing patterns.
- Solid understanding of HCI principles and emerging design trends and patterns.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- As a member of an emerging startup your primary responsibility is making sure we are evolving toward product/market fit.
- Provide design solutions that incorporate customer knowledge, industry knowledge, and deliver how our product should look, feel, and behave.
- Explore, create, ideate and produce design assets to drive conversations about what we should build as a Product team.
- Create testable prototypes when necessary for effectively evaluating proposed design solutions prior to building new features.
- Create detailed specifications that support the FE and BE engineering teams prior to implementing new features.
- Contribute to Design Reviews with industry, design, and competitive insights.
- Stay current with industry trends, tools, design patterns, and share relevant findings with the team.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- Design thinking. You think carefully about our users’ goals and leverage various design methodologies to analyze a problem and propose well thought out and reason solutions.
- Relentlessly customer-obsessed. You can easily empathize with our ICP’s and people who match our documented Personas. You should have a growing and deepening understanding and intuition for what they need.
- Always asking why. Requests for new features come from all sorts of places, you have a habit of needing to understand why and what really needs to be achieved based on understanding our customers.
- Emerging master of the tools. A strong mastery of digital design tools. We're a Figma shop for most of our work, but additional tools may be required for other design related tasks.
- Visual design: Visual design experience, experience building or contributing to design systems, illustration experience or any of the adjacent design disciplines.
WE OFFER
- Generous equity plans
- Private health insurance
- Fitpass
- Breakfast, beverages, and snacks in the office
- Fast-paced San Francisco startup experience
- Work environment that will help you grow and learn
- Features designed, developed and deployed in days, not months
- Latest and greatest hardware and software tools
- Modern offices with a pool, leisure areas, sauna, and gym
- Fun and inclusive atmosphere with high-performing colleagues
THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
- CEO, Drew Sechrist (Ex Salesforce)
- Head of Product & Design, Ian Swinson (Ex Salesforce, Facebook, Anaplan)
- Head of Engineering, Ivan Rajković (Ex Adacta)
- Head of Data Science, Jelena Graovac (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics)
