Senior Product Designer

Posted Aug 1

Description

Design is integral to Fleetio's culture and how we build products together. One of our core beliefs as a company is "Design is an important part of everything we do."

As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful yet pragmatic software interfaces that our customers will love to use. You’ll rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals from concept to execution, and craft new user experiences that help solve complex problems. You’ll collaborate with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to continually refine and iterate the Fleetio design language.

Our ideal candidate is a creative powerhouse, energized by the mission to make each user's first encounter with Fleetio an impactful, memorable, and rewarding experience. You will rely on user-centered design principles to produce high-quality visuals from concept to execution and craft new solutions for complex problems. You will collaborate with other product designers, engineers, and product managers to continually refine and iterate the Fleetio design language system.

If you are a creative, driven, and passionate designer who intentionally puts yourself in customers' shoes and thinks deeply about improving their experience, we would love to hear from you!

What’s Fleetio?

Fleetio (pronounced "flee-tee-oh”) is a leading provider of fleet management SaaS that helps organizations of all sizes track, analyze, automate, and manage their vehicles and equipment. With a purpose-built, easy-to-use, and comprehensive suite of tools and features, Fleetio makes it easy for fleet managers to optimize their operations, reduce costs, and improve safety and compliance.

We’ve become a trusted partner for thousands of businesses across the globe, from small startups to large enterprises. With a focus on innovation, customer success, and sustainable growth, Fleetio is on a mission to transform fleet management.

What makes us special, you might ask? We’ve been remote-friendly since 2012 and have been recognized as Birmingham Alabama’s Best Places to Work five years in a row. We have over 200 employees all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and have over 5000 paying customers in 70+ countries. It’s an exciting time at Fleetio as we’re growing 50+% year on year and have just closed our Series C round led by our incredible investment partner, Elephant. We’re building the fleet management platform of the future – the single screen for fleet managers to drive their businesses forward.

More about our product and company:

What you'll be doing

  • Design and help implement features that ship quickly and with high quality
  • Create detailed mocks/specs of designs that follow and extend the existing style guide to allow engineers to build new features
  • Raise the bar for product quality across our products by advocating for user-centered product roadmaps, new interface guidelines and design patterns, investments in refinement, polish and iteration, and insights driven by user research and customer feedback
  • Develop deep empathy for our customers and use research to inform design solutions
  • Compellingly communicate and present design solutions, across a range of mediums and fidelities, to stakeholders and other product designers, while defending design decisions and incorporating feedback into the design cycle
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering and Marketing teams to solve complex problems through discovery, humanize product ideas and develop these ideas into modern, simple and intuitive application designs and features
  • Partner with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation and user experience

This is a position we consider essential to the company’s success. Be sure to mention coffee in your cover letter so we know you actually read this.

What's in it for you

  • Design digital products used by thousands of users around the world. So many different types of companies and organizations operate a fleet each day, and Fleetio is a good fit for most of them (it’s a huge market).
  • Be a part of an incredible team of “A” players who go above and beyond to make Fleetio a successful company. We’re a customer-centric team with a great product, excellent support, and countless happy customers.
  • Work remotely (within the United States), or at our Birmingham, AL HQ. We strive to promote a strong remote working culture and have done so since the beginning.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated expertise with 5+ years of professional work experience within a SaaS environment focusing on product design and/or user interface design in web
  • BA/BS degree in Design is highly preferred
  • Proven abilities in quickly acquiring deep customer understanding, demonstrating strong empathy, and effectively translating these insights into actionable steps for product design improvements
  • Exceptional command and leadership in visual design and information architecture, coupled with a keen sense of simplicity, deep understanding of modern web UI patterns, and an extraordinary eye for typography, consistency, color, and subtle details
  • Advanced understanding of user-centered design thinking and the ability to integrate products/services across a platform, thinking beyond individual screens and considering the broader context of design systems
  • Proficiency in effectively communicating design concepts at various levels of resolution, including sketches, low-fi mockups, hi-fi comps, and interactive prototypes, highlighting strong visual communication skills
  • Extensive experience in collaborating cross-functionally with research, design, product, engineering, data science, and marketing teams to develop successful strategies and make informed decisions
  • Proven track record of bringing projects from concept to completion, showcasing the ability to design and ship software products successfully
  • Expert-level proficiency with modern design tools such as Figma and Sketch, enabling the creation of wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and prototypes
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and coach mid-level designers, illustrating leadership and expertise in guiding and developing the skills of others

Benefits

  • 100% health/dental coverage (50% coverage for family)
  • Vision insurance
  • Incentive stock options
  • 401(k) match of 4%
  • PTO - 4 weeks
  • 10 company holidays + 2 floating holidays
  • Parental and bonding leave
  • Dependent care and medical FSA
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Community service funds
  • Professional development funds
  • Health and wellness initiatives
  • Mac laptop + new hire equipment stipend
  • Monthly catered lunches
  • Fully stocked kitchen with tons of drinks & snacks
  • Remote working friendly since 2012 #LI-REMOTE

Fleetio provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

This application is not intended to and does not create a contract or offer of employment. Employment with Fleetio is at will.

If you have a disability or a special need that requires an accommodation to fill out the online application, please let us know by calling (205) 718-7500 or emailing recruiting@fleetio.com.