Senior Product Designer

Posted Jul 8

☀️ Highlights

Chameleon is SaaS for product teams to create in-product UX (modals, banners, checklists, microsurveys etc.) to drive user engagement. Watch a short demo here (or sign up here)
We’re a remote-first, Series A, VC-backed (Matrix Partners, True Ventures) startup with ~45 folks distributed across the Americas and Europe. Learn more about us here.
Seeking our third Product Designer; someone with 5+ years of SaaS design experience living in US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, or Brazil 🇧🇷 working across our products doing end-to-end design work.
Salary range is $90k - $160k USD annually, based on experience and location.
Our application process is engaging and interactive — we want to focus on your work quality, not just your interviewing skills, while getting to know you during the process.

Sarah (previous applicant) wrote to us and said: “Whatever the outcome of this, I really enjoyed filling out this application! Great job, such a different approach than usual”

👉 Take me to the application!

💬 Why this role now?

Our product team is ~10 engineers, 3 QAs, 1 PM (Tj), 2 designers (Valentin, Russ), and our founders (Pulkit & Brian). We are building the best product in our category and are shipping great functionality, (see this or our LinkedIn page) but we want to go even faster 🚀

We are concurrently hiring a second PM, and expect that with this we’ll be able to build two pods of work (core and growth/new) with our designers supporting work across projects and themes.

We raised a Series A last year after years of bootstrapping with sustained growth, so are in a financially strong position. We have never conducted layoffs and believe in thoughtful hiring.

Listen to Valentin and Russ talk about the Design team and process

Video (2023-06-23 17_15 GMT+1).mp4

🔮 Where are we heading?

It’s a great time to join as we have product-market fit, established the fundamentals of operating as a product team, and work with over 300 outstanding customer, such as Twilio Segment, Mixpanel, Copy.ai, Fivetran, Chili Piper, and more. View some of our case studies here!

Watch a quick demo of our product below:

https://chameleon.wistia.com/medias/ev0l78u1sb

Users now expect personalized software that caters to their specific needs and context. This is hard to build and manage at scale, but the companies that succeed with this product-led approach are the winners. This provides Chameleon the opportunity to create a category-shaping product that is a part of every company’s stack! 🌐

More on our product, team, culture, and vision here.

📅 What your day might include (+ our stack)

Reviewing and contributing on our product roadmap (Notion)
Researching patterns, components, and flows from other tools (web)
Joining or conducting meetings (we use Zoom, Fathom) for research/discovery
Doing mockups, hi-fidelity designs, and creating prototypes (Figma)
Presenting in our daily design syncs with the product team (Tuple)
Async sharing of designs and or problems for feedback (Loom)
Testing and giving feedback on engineering stories (Chameleon testing accounts)
Updating our design system and component library (zeroheight)

⛏ Skills and experience that will aid success in this role

5+ years of full-time product design at a SaaS company where software is the product
1+ years of startup (<50 employees) experience and comfort working in a remote-first and asynchronous working culture
Experience designing complex product workflows, ideally B2B, from ideation to high-fidelity mocks, and take a system-centric approach to design (think and work with components)
Great at independent research (e.g. competitive analysis, usability testing, surveys, and interviews, etc.) specifically identifying challenges related to usability and adoption
Structured thinking, organized work, clear written and verbal communication
Proficient in Figma or similar tool

🤞 Other requirements

You have a fully functioning workstation and a quiet place to work (and take calls) with a high-speed internet connection
You are living in the US 🇺🇸, Canada 🇨🇦, or Brazil 🇧🇷
Able to join functional and cross-team meetings between 8-10:30am PST
This will be your full-time job (no other part-time roles)
Fluency (written and verbal) in English

💵 Key Compensation and Benefits for this Role

Competitive compensation ($90k - $160k USD, based on experience and location)
Early-stage equity (stock options) at a great valuation
New Macbook and $1,000 home-office budget
Flexible work hours, asynch culture and generous paid time off, plus Flexible Fridays!
Fully-paid international team retreats and mini-meetups (last one was in Miami; see here)
Access to True Ventures portfolio events, workshops, and networking
Ongoing coaching and mentorship from a leadership team that will help you rapidly develop and advance in your career

📝 What to expect from the hiring process

🌈 Chameleons are all different and uniquely beautiful. They change and aren't required to associate or identify with any specific labels. We welcome the chance to get to know you and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that consists of a variety of backgrounds, cultures, languages, experiences, preferences, and characteristics. That's what helps us all grow and evolve.

Our hiring process is crafted to give us a chance to experience collaborating (in a lightweight manner), represent how we actually work (to show you what it’ll be like) and to de-emphasize “interviewing” as a skill (writing is more important than talking for us):

Application (~20 mins; form below) This is a Typeform with questions that extend beyond submitting your resume. We aim to make it engaging and resemble aspects of the job. It will also mean we can make the process quicker!
First interview (45 mins)
We’ll begin to get to know each other and give you space to ask questions you have. The goal is to assess work style dynamics and communication.
Second Interview/White-boarding activity (60 mins) ****We’ll collaborate on design exercise during a live call so you can see whether it’d be fun to collaborate with us, and we can show you a little more about how we operate.
Paid project (8-12 hours over 1-2 weeks; depending on your availability) We will collaborate on a well-scoped and real design project to help us all assess what it’s like to work together. We will pay a fair hourly rate for this.

Offer 🎉 If we all enjoy working together and make good progress on the exercise, we’ll be in a position to make you a full-time offer (pending references as necessary).

We like to move quickly and our goal is to move from First interview to Paid project within 2 weeks. Once we get to offer, we’d love for you to start as soon as possible.

👉 Apply here 👈

🐥 Onboarding

Just a note to communicate that we invest in our new teammate onboarding as much as our recruiting process:

We create a customized and structured Onboarding doc corresponding to your Day 1, Week 1, Month 1 periods.
You’ll have a buddy (for non-functional questions) and a coach (for function specific needs) to seek help from.
There will be regular check-ins to ensure you’re getting up to speed.
Early on, you will “pair” as well as have your own independent work (e.g. enhancements to existing functionality) as you gain confidence to take on new projects end-to-end.

You will receive continued support from a team that cares deeply about your success. 🤗

🗣 It's important for us to learn from our mistakes and to uncover our blind spots. If you found anything in this application process unclear, inaccurate, misleading, inappropriate, or if you have suggestions for improvements then please let us know! Email us at recruiting@chameleon.io